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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
12
Mock Tests

Mock exam

This is a mock exam. It is used to test your knowledge and give you a feeling of what the real exam is like. The exam contains 60 scored multiple choice questions, and you will need a score of at least 65% to pass the actual exam. This mock exam does not contain the real exam questions, but they will be very similar. If you feel you are ready, take this exam without looking at the solutions. If you get a score of 80% or above on this one, you can be sure you are ready to take the actual exam, and you will have a really good chance of passing.

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  1. A developer would like to relate an external data object to the contact object in Salesforce to track every post on social media; the contact was made in an external system. How can a developer achieve this?
    1. Create a lookup relationship and update the record ID through integration.
    2. Create...