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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

Questions to test your knowledge

The following questions serve to assess your readiness in completing the user interface part of the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder exam. Here, you will be presented with four questions to test your understanding of the user interface customization options and the building of custom buttons, links, and actions. You will also be asked another four questions to help determine the declarative options available for incorporating Lightning Components and when, given a certain scenario, how to determine an appropriate user interface design.

Question 1 – Navigating between apps

Which of the following statements is true about navigating between apps in the Lightning Platform? (Select one)

a) Navigation between apps can only be done by clicking the App menu within the Lightning Experience theme.

b) Navigation between apps can be done by clicking App Launcher within the Lightning Experience theme and the Salesforce Classic theme.

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