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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By : Paul Goodey GP, Goodey
Book Image

Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By: Paul Goodey GP, Goodey

Overview of this book

Do you want to be able to confidently design and build apps that support business processes within the Lightning Platform? Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide not only helps you to do this, but also prepares you for the certification exam. The book starts by describing the core capabilities of the Lightning Platform. You'll learn techniques for data modeling to design, build, and deploy apps without writing code and achieve rapid results with the declarative capabilities that the Lightning Platform provides. Next, you'll explore utilities for importing and exporting data and the features available in the Lightning Platform to restrict and extend access to objects, fields, and records. You'll also be able to customize the Salesforce Lightning Experience user interface (UI) and build functionality for custom buttons, links, and actions. Later, this certification study guide will take you through reporting and the social and mobile features of the Lightning Platform. Finally, you’ll get to grips with Salesforce build environments and deployment options. By the end of this Salesforce book, you'll not only have learned how to build data models, enforce data security, and implement business logic and process automation, but also have gained the confidence to pass the Platform App Builder exam and achieve Salesforce certification.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to the Lightning Platform Core
5
Section 2: Behind the Scenes
11
Section 3: A Step Closer to the Exam

Exam objectives – Data Security

To pass the Data Security section of the certified platform App Builder exam, app builders are expected to demonstrate knowledge of the following:

  1. Describe the features and capabilities available to restrict and extend object, record, and field access.
  2. Given a set of business requirements, determine the appropriate sharing solution.

    Reference: Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam Guide

    This guide is published by Salesforce and can be referenced at https://trailhead.salesforce.com/help?article=Salesforce-Certified-Platform-App-Builder-Exam-Guide.

In the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam Guide, the total number of questions is given, a percentage breakdown for each of the objectives, and an indication of the number of features/functions that can be expected in each of the objectives.

By analyzing these objectives, percentages, and question counts, we can determine the number of questions that will appear...