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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 final chapter, we have looked in detail at the Study Guide for the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder exam and have identified the various resources to help you study for the exam that are available from Salesforce, which are either free or available at an additional cost.

You will have discovered how to sign up for and book the exam, and how to use the Study Guide and resources to plan for successfully passing. You have learned what to expect during the exam and gained insight into the types of questions that may be presented in the exam.

We then concluded the chapter by looking at what happens after the exam and at the requirements for maintaining your Salesforce professional credentials.

At the end, I would like to say that regardless of whether you have passed or failed, you have undertaken a great challenge and while it can be disappointing to fail, you should try to consider it as a part of a learning curve. It can be a challenge taking Salesforce...