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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
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

Quiz

Let's see if you are on the right track to becoming a certified Salesforce developer. You'll find all the answers to this chapter summary quiz at the end of this book. Try to answer the questions without looking at the answers:

  1. You are cleaning up your org and have do remove a field that is referenced in Apex. You would like to delete this field using the Schema Builder. Can you do that? And, if so, how?
    1. Delete it using Schema Builder; this will automatically remove any reference to this field from Apex
    2. Schema Builder can not be used to delete fields
    3. Remove any reference to this field first from any Apex code, then delete the field using Schema Builder
    4. Delete the field using Schema Builder. This will keep all references to it in Apex, but your code will not be functional anymore
  2. What can not be done using Schema Builder?
    1. Creation of a custom object
    2. Creation...