The Salesforce Platform Developer I exam preparation guide is designed to provide candidates with necessary information about the Platform Developer I exam. It includes exam summary, sample questions, practice test, objectives and ways to interpret the exam objectives to enable candidates to assess the types of questions-answers that may be asked during the Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I exam.
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Salesforce Platform Developer I Exam Summary:
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Exam Name
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Salesforce Platform Developer I |
| Exam Code | Platform Developer I |
| Exam Price |
Registration fee: USD 200
Retake fee: USD 100
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| Duration | 105 minutes |
| Number of Questions | 60 |
| Passing Score | 68% |
| Recommended Training / Books |
Study for the Platform Developer I Exam Prepare for Your Salesforce Platform Developer I Credential Apex Specialist |
| Schedule Exam | Kryterion Webassessor |
| Sample Questions | Salesforce Platform Developer I Sample Questions |
| Recommended Practice | Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I Practice Test |
Salesforce Platform Developer I Syllabus:
| Section | Objectives | Weight |
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| 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. |
23% |
| Process Automation and Logic |
- Identify the capabilities of the declarative process automation features. - Declare variables, constants, methods, and use modifiers and Apex interfaces. - Given a scenario, use and apply Apex control flow statements. - Given a scenario, write SOSL, SOQL, and DML statements in Apex. - 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. - Given a scenario, use declarative functionality and Apex together to automate business logic. |
30% |
| 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. |
25% |
| Testing, Debugging, and Deployment |
- Write and execute tests for triggers, controllers, classes, flows, and processes 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. - Describe how to approach debugging system issues and monitoring flows, processes, and asynchronous and batch jobs, etc. - Describe the environments, requirements, and process for deploying code and associated configurations. |
22% |