Salesforce Certified Slack Developer Practice Exam

Salesforce Certified Slack Developer Practice Exam

The Salesforce Certified Slack Developer certification is designed for professionals who want to build custom Slack applications, bots, and integrations for their organization. This certification focuses on helping developers extend Slack’s functionality, automate workflows, and create interactive tools that improve team communication and productivity. Candidates learn how to design, develop, and maintain Slack apps using APIs and other developer tools.

With businesses relying more on digital collaboration, this certification helps developers enhance how teams work together. Professionals earning this certification gain skills to implement innovative solutions, integrate Slack with other business software, and optimize communication processes, making them valuable contributors to a company’s digital workspace strategy.

Who should take the Exam?

This exam is ideal for:

• Slack Developers
• Software Engineers
• IT Professionals
• Business Solutions Architects
• Automation Specialists

Skills Required

• Proficiency in JavaScript, Node.js, or Python for Slack apps
• Knowledge of Slack APIs and SDKs
• Understanding of workflow automation
• Integration skills with Salesforce and other business tools
• Basic knowledge of security and permission management in Slack

Knowledge Gained

• Developing Slack applications and bots
• Automating workflows within Slack
• Using Slack APIs for integrations
• Security and permission management in Slack apps
• Best practices for app deployment and maintenance
• Enhancing collaboration through customized solutions

Course Outline

The Salesforce Certified Slack Developer Exam covers the following topics -

1. Apps in the Slack Platform: 7%

• Recommend how to automate and enhance operations on a Slack workspace.
• Recommend when to use Slack’s different surfaces (user touchpoints including App home, modals, and messages) for a range of use cases.
• Identify when to set up a team to collaborate on a Slack app.

2. Design the Interactive Flow of Your App: 20%

• Build common workflows (business processes) and use cases for Slack apps.
• Recommend an app design that interacts effectively with Slack's architecture.
• Handle possible user entry points for an app's workflow.
• Recommend when to use different Slack components and features (such as incoming webhooks, slash commands, shortcuts, interactive components, and bots) for common use cases.
• Build a user interface (UI) for your app's surfaces using Block Kit.

3. Design Your Workflows: Spotlight on Slack's APIs: 13%

• Recommend when to implement Slack's different application programming interfaces (APIs) for different use cases.
• Implement the Web API in your app.
• Implement the Events API in your app.
• Discriminate between Socket Mode and HTTP-based event delivery.
• Differentiate between current Slack terms and legacy language in the APIs.
• Process rate limits throughout the Slack platform.

4. Design a Great User Experience: 8%

• Build a great user experience that aligns with Slack’s commitment to make work life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

5. Design for Security: 19%

• Design for security.
• Implement the OAuth installation flow.
• Request the appropriate scopes for your app's use case.
• Request the appropriate tokens for your app's use case.
• Identify the steps you could take to make your app communicate securely in Slack.
• Store and retrieve data and tokens safely.

6. Design for Scale: 9%

• Design your app to match the unique platform architecture, features, and roles of Enterprise Grid.
• Describe the characteristics of an Enterprise Grid Sandbox.
• Recommend when to add support for channels that are shared externally with Slack Connect.

7. Tools: 5%

• Recommend when to use sample code and external resources.
• Recommend when to use the Bolt development framework to build Slack apps.
• Explain the purpose and value of Block Kit Builder.
• List some use cases for Slack Developer Tools (SDT).

8. APIs for Managing Your Slack: 12%

• Recommend when to use an Admin API to automate a Slack workspace or org administration.
• Use the SCIM API to manage Slack users and user groups.
• Monitor workspace events with the Audit Logs API.
• Recommend when to use the Discovery API for data-loss prevention, compliance archiving, or eDiscovery.
• Identify the required user role to generate a token to use APIs to automate a Slack workspace or org administration.

9. Distribute Your App: 7%

• Examine why you would want to contain an app to a single workspace.
• Share an app with other workspaces.
• Differentiate between a single workspace app, a distributed app, and a published App Directory app.
• Explain the best practices, expectations, and processes to submit an app to the Slack Directory.