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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

Taking and passing the exam

When taking the exam at a testing center, you need to arrive 15 minutes prior to the start of the examination and will not be able to sit the exam if you are late. Do not bring too much baggage into the testing center as you may only have a small locker in which to store all your personal belongings.

You will need to take two forms of identity documents, which could be your passport and driving license, for example. In addition, you need to either print the email that you received when you registered for the exam or show the test code to the examination room proctor as they will need the code to start the exam. Alternatively, show the exam proctor the code on your smartphone.

For the online proctored exam, you can start several minutes early, which can be useful to check that your remote test environment and computer settings are working correctly. For example, it is necessary at the start of the exam for a photo to be taken of you using your computer...