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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.

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management
Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management
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Salesforce Fundamentals
Salesforce Fundamentals
Considerations when developing in a multi-tenant environment
What is multi-tenancy?
The MVC paradigm
The core CRM objects
Extending an application's capabilities using AppExchange
Common use cases for declarative customization
Summary
Quiz
3
Understanding Data Modeling and Management
Understanding Data Modeling and Management
Data modeling
Relationship types
Schema design and modification impact on Apex development
Visualizing and creating entity relationships
Importing and exporting data into development environments
Summary
Quiz
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Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface
Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface
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Declarative Automation
Declarative Automation
Formula fields
Roll-up summary fields
Declarative process automation features – workflow and processes
Declarative process automation features – approvals and flows
When to use declarative process automation features versus Apex
Summary
Quiz
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Apex Basics
Apex Basics
What is a class and an instance?
Understanding the features of Apex
How to develop Apex
Apex variables, constants, and expressions
Access modifiers
Apex control flow statements
Working with data in Salesforce
Summary
Quiz
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Apex - Beyond the Basics
Apex - Beyond the Basics
Apex classes and interfaces
Apex triggers
The order of execution
Exception handling
Security in Apex
Web service callouts
Summary
Quiz
8
The Salesforce User Interface
The Salesforce User Interface
Introduction
Displaying Salesforce data using Visualforce
Lightning Component framework
Benefits of the Lightning Component framework
Resources in a Lightning component
Summary
Quiz
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Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise
Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise
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Testing in Salesforce
Testing in Salesforce
Testing deployment requirements and the testing framework
Writing Apex unit tests
Executing test classes
Invoking Apex to execute anonymously versus unit tests
Summary
Quiz
11
Debugging and Deployment Tools
Debugging and Deployment Tools
Monitoring and accessing debug logs
Working with the Developer Console, Workbench, and Force.com IDE platforms
Deploying metadata to another org
Summary
Quiz
12
Mock Tests
Mock Tests
Mock exam
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Appendix
Appendix
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Code solutions

Working with data in Salesforce

So, your Salesforce database now contains a lot of data to work with. You have created movies, actors, production companies, and reviews. In Apex, you might want to work with and manipulate this data. This also means you need some ways to query the data you want to manipulate, and that's what we are going to discuss in this section.

Selecting data with SOQL and SOSL

Since you are familiar with databases, you have learned about SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other database languages to select data out of a database. After the selection, we can execute some logic, manipulate the data, or display the data.

In Apex, you will use a similar type of language, named SOQL or SOSL. I can imagine that...

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