Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I Exam: Comprehensive Study Guide 2023
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Exam outline
The Salesforce Platform Developer I exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives. A candidate should have hands-on experience developing custom applications on the Lightning Platform and be able to demonstrate the application of each of the topics and objectives below.
Developer Fundamentals: 23%
• Understand multi-tenant concepts and design frameworks, such as MVC architecture and Lightning Component Framework.
• Given a scenario, identify common use cases and best practices for declarative versus programmatic customizations, including governor limits, formula fields, and roll-up summaries.
• Given a scenario, determine, create, and access the appropriate data model including objects, fields, relationships, and external IDs.
• Given a scenario, identify the options and considerations when importing and exporting data into development environments.
Process Automation and Logic: 30%
• Identify the capabilities of the declarative process automation features.
• Declare variables, constants, methods, and use modifiers and Apex interfaces.
• Given a scenario, use and apply Apex control flow statements.
• Given a scenario, write SOSL, SOQL, and DML statements in Apex.
• Given a scenario, follow best practices to write Apex classes and triggers.
• Given a scenario, identify the implications of governor limits on Apex transactions.
•Describe the relationship between Apex transactions, the save order of execution, and the potential for recursion and/or cascading.
• Implement exception handling
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