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Platform Developer: The Exam Run

A timed run at the Platform Developer exam: what it scores, domain by domain, and the run itself.

  • Advanced
  • 25 lessons
  • 6 modules
  • English

Designed and created by Salesforce Expert

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What you'll learn

  • Explain what each domain is really testing beneath the question
  • Work the blueprint at exam pace rather than study pace
  • Recognise the distractors that are testing a distinction
  • Find and close your weak domains before the date
  • Sit the exam with the pacing already rehearsed

Course content

6 sections · 25 lectures

What this exam is actually scoring 1 lectures
  1. 1.1 What 68% Of 60 Actually Buys You, And The Four Ways Developers Fail An Exam They Could Pass
Developer Fundamentals 6 lectures
  1. 2.1 Multi-Tenancy, MVC And The Lightning Component Framework
  2. 2.2 Declarative Or Programmatic: The Decision This Exam Tests More Often Than It Tests Apex
  3. 2.3 Formula Fields, Roll-Up Summaries, And Exactly Where Each One Stops
  4. 2.4 Objects, Fields And Relationships, Read From The Code Side
  5. 2.5 External IDs, Upsert, And The Identifier Question Hiding Inside The Scenario
  6. 2.6 Agentforce For Developers: The Use Cases, The Limitations, And The Guide's Own Ambiguity
Process Automation and Logic 7 lectures
  1. 3.1 Which Automation The Scenario Is Describing, And The Questions Where The Answer Is 'Not Apex'
  2. 3.2 The Language Questions: Variables, Constants, Methods, Modifiers And Interfaces
  3. 3.3 Control Flow — Reading A Block Of Apex And Saying Exactly What It Does
  4. 3.4 SOQL And SOSL: What Each Returns, And Which One The Stem Is Asking For
  5. 3.5 DML, Partial Success, And Exception Handling A Caller Can Actually Act On
  6. 3.6 Triggers And Classes: The Best-Practice Answers, And The One Pattern Behind All Of Them
  7. 3.7 Governor Limits, The Save Order Of Execution, And Where The Second Run Comes From
User Interface 5 lectures
  1. 4.1 The Security Vulnerabilities The Objective Names, And The Two You Write By Accident
  2. 4.2 Choosing The Component: Lightning Web Components, Aura, Flow Screens And Visualforce
  3. 4.3 Lightning Web Components Properly — The Framework, The Benefits, And The Events
  4. 4.4 Apex Behind A Component: The Controller Contract, Wire And Imperative
  5. 4.5 Apex Behind Flow And Agentforce: Invocable Methods, And What A Caller Needs From Your Method
Testing, Debugging, and Deployment 4 lectures
  1. 5.1 Tests For Triggers, Controllers, Classes And Flows — And Every Source Of Test Data
  2. 5.2 The Developer Tools, And Which One A Stem Is Describing When It Does Not Name One
  3. 5.3 Debugging And Monitoring: Logs, Flow Errors, And Asynchronous And Batch Jobs
  4. 5.4 Environments And Deployment: What Travels, What Does Not, And The Coverage Gate
The run 2 lectures
  1. 6.1 The Exam-Day Plan: 105 Minutes, As Many As 65 Questions, And The Order To Answer In
  2. 6.2 Full-Length Mock: 60 Questions, Blueprint-Weighted, Fully Explained

Requirements

  • BLD-110 Apex Foundations, or equivalent working experience

Description

The run at the Platform Developer exam for people who can already write Apex. It opens with what the exam is actually scoring — which is rarely syntax — then works the Developer Fundamentals, Process Automation and Logic, User Interface, and Testing, Debugging and Deployment domains at exam pace.

Take it after BLD-110, close to the date you sit.

Who this course is for

  • Developers who know Apex and have booked the Platform Developer exam.

Skills you'll practise

Exam preparationApexPlatform DeveloperMock examsTest strategy

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