Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I Exam: Comprehensive Study Guide 2023 (Online Access Included)

Congratulations on taking the next step to prepare for your Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I credential. This exam guide has the information you need to help you study and prepare for your exam.

Welcome to our ebook, "Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I". This resource has been meticulously crafted to provide a comprehensive guide for those who are aspiring to take a significant step in their Salesforce career.

Exam outline
The Salesforce Platform Developer I exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives. A candidate should have hands-on experience developing custom applications on the Lightning Platform and be able to demonstrate the application of each of the topics and objectives below.

Developer Fundamentals: 23%
• 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.

Process Automation and Logic: 30%
• 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.

User Interface: 25%
•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.


Testing, Debugging, and Deployment: 22%
• 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.

This ebook covers all these areas in detail. We delve deep into each topic, breaking down complex concepts into comprehensible nuggets. We also provide practical examples and scenarios to aid your understanding and prepare you for the type of questions you might encounter in the exam.