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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

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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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Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management

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

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

Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface

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

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

Apex - Beyond the Basics

Apex classes and interfaces

Apex triggers

The order of execution

Exception handling

Security in Apex

Web service callouts

Summary

Quiz

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

Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise

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

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

Mock Tests

Mock exam

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Appendix

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Code solutions

Resources in a Lightning component

You are able to build a Lightning component in your favorite Salesforce IDE, but you can use the Developer Console as well. As usual, I will explain how to use the Developer Console to create these kinds of resources, but don't hesitate to use your own (and favorite) IDE.

To start the development for a Lightning component, open the Developer Console and click File | New | Lightning Component:

You will see a little screen with the name New Lightning Bundle. Yes—a Lightning component is a bundle of some files. We will go in-depth on each type of file in each component soon, but first, we will start by explaining this little screen: