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

Data modeling

Lightning speed is the future, so we will be doing everything in the Lightning Experience interface version of Salesforce. Don't worry if you have only just created your Developer Org, this should be the default setting.

So, we know that we will mostly use Salesforce as a database. Data modeling helps us structure our data using custom objects and fields. Let's have a recap, as we already know what those are:

  • Object: This is used to store specific data, such as our Excel sheet called Accounts. We will need to create several objects to store specific data for our BIM DB app, such as Movie, Person (actor, actress, director), Review, and Company.
  • Field: This is used to capture specific data for a specific record of a specific object type; for example. each movie has a name, a release date, and a duration.
  • Tab: This is a representation of records for a specific...