Salesforce Certified Platform Developer Exam — Information & Free Practice

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Salesforce Certified Platform Developer Exam

Provider: Salesforce; Pearson VUE testing-center or Pearson OnVUE online proctoring delivery
Format: Proctored multiple-choice/multiple-select examination; no hard-copy or online reference materials
Exam questions: Total questions: 60–65; Scored questions: 60; Unscored questions: 0–5; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit: 105 minutes
Passing score: 68%
Exam fee: Registration US$200 plus applicable taxes; retake US$100 plus applicable taxes

Examination outline

Developer Fundamentals (27%)
- Multi-tenant concepts and design frameworks
- Declarative versus programmatic customizations
- Data modeling and access
- Agentforce for Developers use cases and limitations
Process Automation and Logic (28%)
- Declarative process automation capabilities
- Apex declarations and interfaces
- Apex control flow
- SOSL, SOQL, and DML in Apex
- Apex class and trigger best practices
- Governor limits and Apex transactions
- Transactions, execution order, recursion, and cascading
- Apex exception handling
- Combining declarative functionality and Apex
User Interface (25%)
- User interface and data access security
- Displaying and using custom user interface components
- Lightning Web Component use cases and best practices
- Apex integration with page components
Testing, Debugging, and Deployment (20%)
- Writing and executing tests with test data
- Salesforce Developer tools
- Debugging and monitoring
- Deployment environments, requirements, and process

Examination sources

This examination may be required or accepted as an alternative, depending on the license and application pathway.