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
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Is this study guide enough? Or do I also need to do the trailhead in the Exam guide as well? Question for those who passed already
Hi Mousumi, thanks for the inquiry. The topics covered in the study guides and practice exams are concentrated on the objectives in the exam outline. We recommend you taking the practice exams over and over until you obtain the highest score possible. It’s highly recommended though to reference trailhead and other Salesforce documentation when you encounter topics that may still not be very clear to you, or you may post your inquiries here or in the feedback forums. Lastly, it’s best to gain more hands-on experience in the Salesforce platform especially if you don’t work with it on a regular basis.
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Hi Guys,
are there any Heroku questions on the exam? I have checked the Exam Outline and it’s not mentioned there but in 2019 there were some questions (they didn’t count?).
My Certification Goal was set for Dec 18 but Dec 16 is my date 🙂
Thanks for the exam guide! Top quality, as always.
Hi Mateusz, your are correct, in the past there were exam objectives related to Heroku, but they have been removed. We assume it is because a Heroku Architect Designer certification was introduced.