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Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Exam

Provider
Salesforce; Pearson VUE testing-center or Pearson OnVUE online delivery
Format
Proctored, closed-book multiple-choice/multiple-select examination in English
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
65%
Exam fee
Registration USD 400; retake USD 200; applicable taxes additional
Examination outline
  • Application Lifecycle Management (8%)
    • Development methodologies, project risks and governance strategies
  • Planning (13%)
    • ALM maturity, people, technology and processes
    • Environment risks and mitigation
    • Governance framework
    • Salesforce release risk mitigation
  • System Design (15%)
    • Agile development tools
    • Org strategy considerations
    • Environment and sandbox strategy
    • Deployment strategy components and tools
  • Building (14%)
    • Source control branching, versioning and merging
    • Test data and unit testing
    • Development models and environments
    • Code quality assurance
  • Deploying (14%)
    • Metadata and Tooling API capabilities and constraints
    • Pre-deployment and post-deployment steps
    • Technical reference data deployment
  • Testing (13%)
    • Testing methodology
    • Test execution methodology and coverage
    • Unified representative and secure test data strategy
  • Releasing (13%)
    • Managed, unmanaged and unlocked packages
    • Mapping sandbox strategy to a release plan
    • Release management strategy
  • Operating (10%)
    • Direct production request implications
    • Integrating production changes into ALM
    • Common release artifacts across multiple orgs
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