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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

Declarative process automation features – approvals and flows

In this section, we'll dive deeper into approval processes, Visual Flows, and their uses. Both are used to automate parts of your business processes, without the use of code. Approvals are used when someone, or a particular department/team, needs to verify something and give their consent to it before the end user can continue with the rest of the business process. Flows are the big brother of Process Builder. They let you automate most, if not all, of your business processes and are much more powerful, but also a bit more complex to set up.

Approval processes

If you require a chain of steps that need to be followed in order to get a specific record...