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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

Chapter 12: Studying for the Certified Platform App Builder Exam

In this chapter, we will look at the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder exam, which is a Salesforce credential for individuals seeking a certification path in either a Salesforce administrator or Salesforce developer role. The Salesforce Platform App Builder exam is used to measure individuals' ability to design, build, and deploy custom applications using the declarative features within the Lightning Platform.

Before taking the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder exam, you should have experience of using the declarative customization capabilities and also an awareness of the programmatic capabilities of the Lightning Platform.

Within this chapter, we will review the study guide for the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder exam and you will discover various resources that will help you to study for the exam. You will learn about the resources available from Salesforce and other channels that...