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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

  1. What are the capabilities of cross-object formula fields? (choose two options)
    1. Formula fields can expose a user to data, to which they do not have access on a record itself
    2. Formula fields can reference fields from a collection of child records
    3. Formula fields can reference fields from objects that are up to 10 relationships away
    4. Formula fields can be used in up to three roll-up summary fields per object
  1. Using only standard object relationships, on which standard objects could you create a custom roll-up summary field? (choose three options)
    1. On the Opportunity object rolling up Opportunity Product records
    2. On the Account object rolling up Case records
    3. On the Campaign object rolling up Campaign Member records
    4. On the Account object rolling up Opportunity records
  1. Which of the following scenarios can you not achieve with formula fields?
    1. Display a clickable link using...