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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By : Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams
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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By: Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams

Overview of this book

Salesforce Lightning Platform, used to build enterprise apps, is being increasingly adopted by admins, business analysts, consultants, architects, and especially developers. With this Salesforce certification, you'll be able to enhance your development skills and become a valuable member of your organization. This certification guide is designed to be completely aligned with the official exam study guide for the latest Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I release and includes updates from Spring '19. Starting with Salesforce fundamentals and performing data modeling and management, you’ll progress to automating logic and processes and working on user interfaces with Salesforce components. Finally, you'll learn how to work with testing frameworks, perform debugging, and deploy metadata, and get to grips with useful tips and tricks. Each chapter concludes with sample questions that are commonly found in the exam, and the book wraps up with mock tests to help you prepare for the DEV501 certification exam. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to take the exam and earn your Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I certification.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management
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Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface
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Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise
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Mock Tests

Testing deployment requirements and the testing framework

Salesforce Apex delivers a testing framework that allows you to write and run tests, check the test results, and determine your test coverage. Before you can deploy your code to a production environment, you need to cover at least 75% of your code, and all the written tests need to pass. I recommend that you use test-driven development, which means that you do your test development at the same time as your code development. Let's see why testing is so important during development.

The importance of testing

Why should you write extra code to test whether everything works like a charm? Well, testing is crucial in your development process and is the key to successful...