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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at the features available for managing the application life cycle on the Salesforce Lightning Platform.

You have learned about the processes and steps for managing the application life cycle when building apps on the Lightning Platform. You were presented with an overview of the development models and the benefits and considerations of using the change sets development approach to migrate changes between Salesforce environments.

You have gained the knowledge needed to be able to configure different types of Salesforce environment and have examined the capabilities of the sandboxes that are available to help orchestrate change management during the building of apps.

You also discovered the use cases and capabilities of unmanaged packages and learned about the various deployment strategies that help to determine an appropriate strategy for a given scenario.

In the next chapter, we will take a detailed look at the Certified Platform...