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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By : Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams
Book Image

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

The Salesforce User Interface

In this chapter, you'll learn everything you need to know about programmatic visualization. You'll learn about the different ways of visualizing your data, how to create user interfaces, and how you can use the pages and components that are available in existing pages.

After completing this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

  • Create a Visualforce page and visualize your data, based on a standard controller, standard set controller, an extension on a standard controller, or a full custom controller.
  • Define the advantages of the Lightning framework.
  • Create and use a Lightning component in your Lightning pages.