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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

Identifying resources available for studying

There are many resources available to help you with the process of studying for the Salesforce Platform App Builder exam. The resources that will be outlined in this section include official Salesforce resources and third-party resources that have been provided by the wider Salesforce community. There are resources that you have to pay for and others that are free with both the official and third-party resources.

If you are fortunate enough to be currently working with the Lightning Platform for a Salesforce customer or partner and have system administrator permissions, then you should be able to gain valuable on-the-job experience and will be able to gain much of the knowledge of the features and functionalities required while carrying out your day job.

For individuals that may not currently be full-time app builders in their companies, but work for organizations with a training budget and a desire to train them to carry out the building...