Salesforce Platform Developer Practice Exam

Salesforce Platform Developer Practice Exam

The Salesforce Platform Developer certification is designed for individuals with expertise in constructing customized applications on the Lightning Platform.  This credential covers the core programmatic functionalities of the Lightning Platform, allowing candidates to create tailored business logic and interfaces to enhance Salesforce through Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning Components. Additionally, passing this exam is a requirement to be eligible for the Salesforce Platform Developer II Multiple Choice exam.

Who should take the exam?

The Salesforce Platform Developer exam targets individuals who possess the skills to develop and deploy basic business logic and user interfaces using the programmatic functionalities of the Lightning Platform. This includes the practical application of the skills and concepts outlined in the exam objectives below.

Generally, a Salesforce Platform Developer candidate has one to two years of development experience, with at least six months of exposure to the Lightning Platform.

Skills required for the exam:

Key qualifications of a Salesforce Platform Developer candidate include:

• Experience with data-driven applications and relational databases.
• Proficiency in object-oriented languages like Apex, JavaScript, Java, C#, and Ruby.
• Understanding of governor limits and their implications.
• Familiarity with Model View Controller (MVC) and component-based architectures.
• Knowledge of the core objects in the Salesforce schema.
• Understanding of formula fields and roll-up summary fields and their use cases.
• Ability to determine when to use declarative versus programmatic methods to address business requirements.
• Proficiency in leveraging relevant declarative capabilities of the platform when applicable.
• Mastery of the Apex programming language and adherence to Apex best practices for Salesforce customization.
• Capability to extend the Lightning Platform using Apex, basic Lightning Components, and Visualforce.
• Utilization of fundamental programmatic capabilities of the Lightning Platform to develop custom interfaces and enhance Salesforce functionalities with custom business logic.
• Familiarity with testing, debugging, and deploying code, along with knowledge of available environments.

Exam Details

• Exam Name: Salesforce Platform Developer
• Exam Languages: English
• Exam Questions: 60 Questions
• Passing Score: 68%
• Time Duration: 105 minutes

Salesforce Platform Developer Exam Course Outline 

The Exam covers the given topics  - 

1. Understand Developer Fundamentals: 27%

• Understanding multi-tenant concepts and design frameworks, such as MVC architecture and Lightning Component Framework.
• Given a scenario, identifying 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.
• Understanding use cases and limitations of using Agentforce for Developers.

2. Learn About Process Automation and Logic: 28%

• Identifying the capabilities of the declarative process automation features.
• Understanding how to declare variables, constants, methods, modifiers, Apex interfaces, and the appropriate use cases for each.
• Given a scenario, assessing how Apex control flow statements will execute and when to apply different control flow statements.
• Given a scenario, write SOSL, SOQL, and DML statements in Apex, and assess what they will return.
• Given a scenario, follow best practices to write Apex classes and triggers.
• Given a scenario, understand governor limits and their implications on Apex transactions.
• Describing the relationship between Apex transactions, the save order of execution, and the potential for recursion and/or cascading.
• Implementing exception handling in Apex, including custom exceptions as needed.
• Given a scenario, use declarative functionality and Apex together to automate business logic.

3. Understand User Interface: 25%

• Given a scenario, preventing user interface and data access security vulnerabilities.
• Given a scenario, display and use custom user interface components, including Lightning components, Flow, and Visualforce.
• Describing the use cases and best practices for Lightning Web Components, including the framework, benefits, and events.
• Given a scenario, implement Apex to work with various types of page components, including Lightning components, Flow, and Agentforce.

4. Learn Testing, Debugging, and Deployment: 20%

• Writing and executing tests for triggers, controllers, classes, and flows using various sources of test data.
• Given a scenario, know how and when to use the Salesforce Developer tools such as Salesforce DX, Salesforce CLI, and Developer Console.
• Describing how to approach debugging system issues and monitoring flows, performance, asynchronous, and batch jobs.
• Describing the environments, requirements, and process for deploying code and associated configurations.