Platform Developer 1 - Certification Goal
Resources
Lessons
Developer Fundamentals
- 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.
- Knowledge Check
Process Automation and Logic: Advanced Topics
- 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 in Apex, including custom exceptions as needed
- Knowledge Check
User Interface
- Given a scenario, display content or modify Salesforce data using a Visualforce page and the appropriate controllers or extensions as needed
- Describe the Lightning Component framework, its benefits, and the types of content that can be contained in a Lightning web component
- Given a scenario, prevent user interface and data access security vulnerabilities
- Given a scenario, display and use a custom user interface components, including Lightning Components, Flow, and Visualforce.
- Describe the use cases and best practices for Lightning Web Component events.
- Given a scenario, implement Apex to work with various types of page components, including Lightning Components, Flow, Next Best Actions, etc.
- Knowledge Check
Testing, Debugging and Deployment: Debugging and Deployment
- Describe how to approach debugging system issues and monitoring flows, processes, and asynchronous and batch jobs, etc.
- Given a scenario, know how and when to use the Salesforce Developer tools such as Salesforce DX, Salesforce CLI, and Developer Console.
- Describe the environments, requirements, and process for deploying code and associated configurations.
- Knowledge Check
Thank you for clarifying!
Hi Martin,
Total calculations equal more than 100%. There are three sections that cover 46% of the question base. Can you tell me which one should be the main focus for the current exam or should it be all three?
Logic and Process Automation is such a large topic, we broke it into 3 parts, that is why the percentage is repeated as they are all part of the same objective.
Hi Martin,
I cleared my Platform Dev 1 certification on 18th Jul. The study guide and the practice exams were of great help.
Thanks a lot!!!
I had a few swings and misses of the Platform Dev 1 exam. Bought FocusOnForce Platform Dev1 Study Guide and passed on my next attempt – Thanks Martin!
Passed today with a 76%!
Your material and tests where instrumental. It was a brutal test though for me.
Thanks again!
MCR
Hi Martin,
The Dev1 cert is already available. And as far as I can see there are some additions in ‘SFDC Fundamentals’ and ‘Logic and Automation’ sections. When could we expect the updates of the course?
Thanks!
Hi Michael,
We have compared the updated study guide with the previous one. The only change we see is the the fundamentals section, concerning features of the Heroku platform. We will add that to the study guide and practice exams in the next few days.
What addition do you see in the ‘Logic and Process Automation’ section?
Hi Michael, the study guide and practice exams have now been updated with the new objective concerning Heroku.
Hi Martin,
I have pass the “salesforce platform app builder” exam and wants to prepare for “salesforce developer 1” as you know The Salesforce Platform Developer I exam is currently undergoing maintenance and unavailable for registration. The expected return date is February 2018. If i enrolled for the course from your site now then it will be outdated or it will upgrade the same course.
Hi Swapnil,
As soon as it is updated after maintenance, we will check the official study guide, and make changes to our study guide and practice exams as appropriate.
Hello Martin,
As you may be aware that the Platform Developer I exam is currently undergoing maintenance and the expected return date is February 2018. I was wondering how often the study guides and exams are updated here once updated by Salesforce?
Thanks in Advance!
Hi Iqbal, every release we check the official study guide for any changes to the topic covered. When the official study guide is updated we will update accordingly as soon as we can.
Thank you Martin for a wonderful course. i cleared Admin and Dev1 certification. You course material is best.
Thanks Martin for the wonderful course, I have cleared my exam today.