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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The Code Practice in the Process Automation and Logic: Basic Apex section was really helpful for reinforcing the topics covered!
Is there something similar for Visualforce / LWC topics as well?
Hi David, thanks for inquiry. We don’t currently have it in the pipeline, but we may consider adding it in the future as a significant update.
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Are there video recordings with the Study Guide content? Thanks!
Hi Rodrigo! Yes, there are available topic videos in more than 50% of the lessons. Our team is currently working on completing the remaining topic videos in the next couple of months.
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Sorry I’m late. I forgot to post here after I took and passed the PD1 back in November. 🙂 Because they were offering free exams at Dreamforce, I attempted without planning or studying and failed. That motivated me to dive into the Focus on Force Material which got me through my second attempt.
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Hi, I passed my PD 1 exam today, Thank you FOF team for the great material. Thank you Ian for answering the queries.
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