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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By : Paul Goodey
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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By: Paul 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: App Development

To complete the App Development section of the Certified Platform App Builder exam, app builders are expected to be able to carry out the following:

  • Describe the key milestones and considerations when managing the application life cycle.
  • Describe the differences between and considerations when using the various types of sandboxes.
  • Describe the capabilities of and considerations when using change sets.
  • Describe the use cases of and considerations when using unmanaged packages.
  • Given a scenario, determine the appropriate deployment plan.

    Reference: Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam Guide

    This guide is published by Salesforce and can be found 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, as is a percentage breakdown for each of the objectives and an indication...