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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
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Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface
9
Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise
12
Mock Tests

Introduction

In the previous chapters, we learned about the model (how to create your data structure) and about the controller (Apex classes, controllers to process data, and so on), so now it is time to create a view for this data, which is the last part of our Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

In Salesforce, you have two different view types of user interfaces, with their own components to display data:

  • Salesforce Classic: This is the classic view of Salesforce and has become outdated over the years. All of the features that are developed in new releases are mainly created for Lightning Experience, the new interface. Nowadays, if you enable a new org, you will be activated in Lightning Experience.
  • Lightning Experience: This is the new view (UI) of Salesforce. Since August 2015, Salesforce has been constantly improving Lightning Experience to provide you with a better interface...