Salesforce Programmatic Development using Apex and Visualforce in Lightning Experience  Training Class

Declarative Automation

• Creating Formula Fields
  
• Creating Roll-Up Summary Fields
  
• Understanding Record Types
  
• Review Other Automation Tools
  
• Building a Data Model on the Salesforce Platform

Programming with Apex

• Describe key aspects of Apex that differentiate it from other languages, such as Java and C#
  
• Describe why Apex transactions and governor limits must be considered when writing Apex
  
• Execute simple Apex
  
• Use the sObject data type, the primitive data types, and basic control statements in Apex

Use SOQL and SOSL to Retrieve Your Org’s Data

• Write a basic query using Salesforce’s query language, SOQL
  
• Process the result of a query in Apex
  
• Create a query dynamically at run-time
  
• Use SOQL to Query Parent-Child Relationships
  
• Describe a relationship query
  
• Write a query that traverses a child-to-parent relationship
  
• Write a query that traverses a parent-to-child relationship
  
• Use SOSL to Search Data

Using DML to Manipulate Your Org’s Data

• List the differences between the ways you can invoke DML operations
  
• Write Apex to invoke DML operations and handle DML errors

Deployment

• What is Deployment?
  
• Deployment Using Change Sets
  
• Use the Ant Migration Tool
  
• Managed & Unmanaged Packages
  
• Salesforce DX

Trigger Essentials

• Describe what a trigger is used for
  
• Describe the syntax of a trigger definition
  
• Use trigger context variables

Apex Class Essentials

• Describe how Apex classes are used
• Define an Apex class
  
• Determine what data an Apex class can access

The Save Order of Execution, Apex Transactions and Platform Events

• Describe key points in the Order of Execution
  
• Describe how triggers fit into and can be impacted by the Order of Execution
  
• Describe the lifecycle of an Apex Transaction
  
• Describe the memory lifecycle for static attributes
  
• Use Platform Events for Immediate Error Logging

Apex Testing

• Describe Apex’s testing framework
  
• Create test data
  
• Write and run an Apex test
  
• Testing Best Practices

Strategies for Designing Efficient Apex Solutions

• Describe practices for writing code that is easy to maintain and extend
  
• Write triggers and classes that assume batches of data as input
  
• Write code that works efficiently with the database, both in querying and using DML

Trigger Design Strategies

• List declarative mechanisms you can use to implement complex business logic, for what types of problems they are best used, and their limitations
  
• Describe ways in which you can use declarative functionality to improve your programmatic solutions

Working with Visualforce

• Create a Visualforce page
  
• Reference a standard controller
  
• Launch a Visualforce page using a custom button
  
• Display data from a record in a Visualforce page
  
• Referencing Custom Controllers and Controller Extensions
  
• Working with List Controllers

Visualforce Development Considerations and Testing

• Describe common limit issues and security concerns
  
• Describe strategies for Testing Visualforce controllers
  
• Write tests for controller constructors
  
• Write tests for action methods, getters, setters, and properties

Lightning Components

• Create and Surface an Aura Component
  
• Create and Surface a Lightning Web Component