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
Amazing content Martin! Covers each and every topic in depth…
Thank you so much.
Looking forward if there’s any course available for Heroku Architecture Designer?
Thank you for your feedback, Abhirup! We are glad they were helpful to you.
We currently do not have a course for Heroku Architecture Designer. We do not have plans for creating new courses any time soon, but we will consider it.
Thanks for the material. Last week I passed my dev1 easy with the study guide and the exams. I will trust again when I start preapring admin and app builder certs
Hu Jav, congratulations on passing the exam, we’re happy to hear that our materials helped.
Just took the exam last Nov 15. And I Passed ! My only material is the practical exam and this study guide. Thank you FoF!
Congrats on passing, it’s great news that our courses were so helpful!
Thanks Martin for a great program. I passed my Platform Developer 1 exam today. The material in this course really helped. I should also mention that I used your course for the Administrator Exam as well which I passed in September.
Without a doubt this course as well as the recent knowledge required for the Administrator certification really helped.
This exam I felt was slightly more difficult than the Admin exam but having the core Salesforce knowledge combined with Apex, VisualForce and Lightning components is key to passing. I combined your course (Especially the Practice exams) with Trailhead geared towards the Platform Developer Exam.
Thank you
I’ll be back for further certifications. For others preparing use this course and Trailhead and you got This!
Hi
this is just a quick question – I am using the material to study and I have been trying to do it during my lunch breaks but it means that I am at my computer all day whereas if I had an AUDIO version I could go for a walk and listen.
i would naturally expect there to be a cost element to this – but do you think this is something that you might consider in the future.
Hi Angela, thanks for your suggestion. An audio version would take a lot of work, but it’s something that we talked about and we will consider it for the future.
Glad to hear that the audio is being considered. I know a lot of individuals with long commutes, that would love to listen and learn without the need for visuals (including myself). Thanks!!
I have passed the exam yesterday on first attempt without any development background…. Materials really helped.. Logic and Process automation questions were the toughest… Thanks again.. On to my next cert :-)..
That’s impressive – congratulations on clearing the exam!
This help me a lot during my study time! I took the exam yesterday for the first time and passed with a good score! This is the best course material I could ever find.
Congratulations on clearing the exam, Leonardo! We are glad the materials helped.
Thank you for materials. Just passed the exam from first try.
I’m struggling to grasp a lot of the topics in Logic and Process Automation sections- should there be a basic level of understanding on any of this before undertaking the study guide?
Hi David, which topics, in particular, are you struggling with? If it is the declarative process automation topics, then completing Admin and App Builder before PD1 would be suggested. If it is the coding topics then I would suggest completing basic Apex and Visualforce trailhead modules in conjunction with your study here, as the aim here is to summarize the information related to each topic but not to go into extensive detail in case you are new to these topics.
Thanks for this course. I cleared my exam. The course and the practice exams were so helpful.
Congratulations on passing the exam, Gayathri! We are happy to hear the materials helped.