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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By : Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams
Book Image

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
1
Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management
4
Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface
9
Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise
12
Mock Tests

Summary

So far, we have learned how working on a multi-tenant platform requires your attention while developing your own custom applications. Additionally, we have learned what the MVC paradigm is, how Salesforce comes with some core standard objects, how you can create your own custom objects, and how you can leverage declarative tools to customize and automate your environment to support your business processes.

In Chapter 2, Understanding Data Modeling and Management, we'll learn more about the Salesforce data model and how you can extend it. Additionally, we'll explore how to relate different objects to each other, how to visualize these different relationships, how you can import data into the platform, and how to export it. We'll be building our own basic international movie database in order to explore all of these concepts.

But, first, let's check whether you are on the right track to becoming a certified Salesforce developer—I definitely hope so!