Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Cloud Developer Practice Exam

Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Cloud Developer Practice Exam

The Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Cloud Developer certification validates your ability to customize and extend the functionalities of Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud storefronts. This certification equips you with the essential skills to develop custom features, integrate with external systems, and optimize the user experience for online shoppers.

Who should pursue the Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud Developer Certification?

This certification is ideal for individuals seeking to:

• Launch or advance their careers as B2C Commerce developers, working on storefront customization and integration projects.
• Demonstrate their expertise in configuring, extending, and troubleshooting B2C Commerce Cloud functionalities.
• Gain a strong foundation in core B2C Commerce development concepts, languages, and tools.
• Contribute effectively to B2C Commerce development teams, collaborating with designers, business analysts, and other stakeholders.

Key Skills and Knowledge Assessed:

The exam focuses on various areas related to B2C Commerce development, including:

• B2C Commerce architecture: Understanding the core components and functionalities of the B2C Commerce platform.
• Cartridges and controllers: Creating reusable cartridges to encapsulate functionality and using controllers to implement business logic.
• ISML templates and scripting: Utilizing ISML (Interaction Specification Markup Language) for templating and B2C Commerce Script for dynamic content generation.
• Content management: Creating and managing content slots, pages, and other storefront components.
• Forms framework: Understanding and applying the forms framework for user input validation, rendering, and data storage.
• API integration: Integrating external systems with B2C Commerce using the Open Commerce API (OCAPI).
• Jobs framework: Automating tasks and processes within the B2C Commerce platform using the Jobs framework.
• Storefront performance optimization: Implementing best practices to improve storefront loading speed and user experience.
• Debugging and troubleshooting: Identifying and resolving issues within B2C Commerce storefronts.

Exam Details:

• Exam Provider: Salesforce
• Format: Multiple-choice questions
• Number of Questions: Typically around 60
• Duration: 105 minutes
• Passing Score: generally around 65%
• Delivery: Testing center or online proctored

Course Outline

The Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud Developer Exam covers topics including -

B2C Commerce Setup: 11%

• Given a sandbox environment, configure an IDE to use WebDAV to deploy cartridges to the correct version directories.
• Given a sandbox instance and data import files, import files using the Business Manager Import/Export modules.
• Given the code for a storefront site, add the correct sequence of cartridge names to the provided cartridge path.
• Given a sandbox environment, use the Business Manager to add a new site to the instance, configuring the default currency and taxation type according to business requirements.
• Given a recently created B2C site, assign the storefront data configurations according to business requirements. 

Work With a B2C Site: 12%

• Given a Business Manager task, work with the product data model to manage products and product search model, their categorization, and associated inventory and pricebooks.
• Given a configuration for tasks, such as payment and shipping information, use Business Manager to complete storefront orders.
• Given a configuration task, use Business Manager to work with Content Assets, Page Designer, Content Slots, and Content Folders.

Data Management Using Business Manager Usage: 24%

• Given a business requirement, modify site search preferences and settings to enable searching for a specified term or product attribute.
• Given a business requirement, create and configure a new search refinement and sorting definition that can be used on the storefront.
• Given a debugging requirement or code, configure the logging categories and access the logs in Business Manager.
• Given business requirements, extend the storefront to expose a new attribute on an existing system object type.
• Given a business need to store custom data, determine if a custom object is needed and create and configure as required.
• Given a problem or performance issue and data, use relevant tools to inspect code performance and determine and implement solutions (cache configuration, profilers, etc) to resolve this issue.
• Given a specification and a sandbox instance, configure OCAPI permissions for Data and Shop APIs.
• Given a service configuration, recognize how they are applicable to the development process.

Application Development: 53%

• Given a development task, code ISML templates that use functionality such as: local include, remote include, components, and other ISML tags.
• Use debugging best practices and techniques to troubleshoot scripts and controllers and verify outcomes.
• Given a requirement, create and extend the functionality of a JavaScript controller that leverages models, decorators, factories, or helpers following API best practices and renders a template or returns a JSON response.
• Given a business requirement and design for a new marketing page, develop page types and components to allow a marketer to build a page with the Page Designer tool.
• Given a requirement to accept, validate, and persist information from a storefront customer, modify the appearance of a form, add validation and CSRF protection, and use bindings to process fields.
• Given localization requirements, implement and enhance templates, form definitions, static files, properties files, and persistent object attributes to ensure that pages are displayed in the expected language.
• Given a logging task and existing configuration, write code that logs non-sensitive data to custom log files with different log levels.
• Integrate, deploy, and use a service instance based on a given requirement.
• Given a use case, extend functionality or capture an event using hook extension points.
• Given code that violates documented best practices, identify the issues and modify the code to conform with best practices including performance and scalability.
• Given a business requirement, use OCAPI Shop and Data APIs to enable interoperability with an external system.
• Given a business requirement to perform a scheduled task, develop jobs and code job scripts.