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What are the Best Practices to study for the Platform Developer 1 exam
This answer may well get downvoted since there's already an answer that basically copy + pasted the study guide, but I can offer some tips and insight into what I found surprising and what was ...
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Can I lose my Salesforce certification by disclosing information about the exam?
There are two clauses of the test-taker agreement that address this question. They are found in sections 3 and 6.
Section 3
Proprietary and Confidential Information. You agree that the Exam and all ...
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Graphical Depiction of all the Salesforce Certifications?
Check out this great new visual summary on Salesforce Ben:
[https://www.salesforceben.com/salesforce-certification-pathways/]
Disclaimer: this older diagram was last updated in 2017 and may not ...
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Difference between the new Salesforce Platform Developer 1 certificate and the old Developer certification DEV-401
You may like to watch following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=wM5Th-ComR4
AppBuilder Transition Certification focus on declarative skills. It do not focus on Visualforce at all now. ...
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Which Salesforce Certification will be easier to take for a Beginner with no prior experience in Salesforce?
When I started working with Salesforce, my colleagues told me that DEV401 is the easiest to get and ADM201 being almost identical to it, but maybe just a little bit more difficult.
However, being ...
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Salesforce Platform Developer II superbadge
Update:
As of December 15th 2017, the final two superbadges; Lightning Component Framework Specialist and Advanced Apex Development are now available so you can complete your PDII journey and get ...
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Old "DEV401" vs New "Platform App Builder" exam
The best place to get more info on this is the study guide for each of these exams .
App Builder
The course recommended for App Builder is the same course that was needed for developer exam before ....
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Registering in webassessor.com for salesforce certification for the first time
Choose customer initially. Partner is for special circumstances like a company that is an ISV or consulting partner for example, and employee is for an employee of Salesforce directly. If they ask ...
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Platform Developer I & Force.com IDE
Platform Developer 1 does not require you to Code during exam (Although it expects you that you have good understanding of how to write apex ,visualforce and work with lightning components)or does not ...
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What is the reasoning for using Custom SAML JIT Provisioning here?
I had a read of the documentation, such as Configure SSO Across Multiple Salesforce Orgs which covers the hub-and-spoke architecture from the question.
I can't find any reference to "Salesforce SAML ...
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Registering in webassessor.com for salesforce certification for the first time
I got the Answer for my Query after raising a case with Salesforce. I am copying the reply from Salesforce official on my case to below as it might be useful for others in Future.
"By selecting SFDC ...
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Platform Developer 2 Exam
It takes approximately one week. They issue the certification regularly, but it is not instantaneous.
From the Knowledge article Link Your Trailhead and Webassessor Accounts:
Step 4 - Salesforce ...
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What should the negative tests include?
Usually, we don't throw exception from the testmethods, rather we catch the exception and put them in proper way through assert statement.
like this:
public class MyClass
{
public String ...
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Considerations for calling out to enterprise applications behind a firewall from salesforce?
To enable salesforce to access enterprise applications behind a firewall, you will have to expose the system to outside network. It comes with associated security concerns and usually requires ...
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AWS Signature Version 4 IAM authorization
Salesforce now has native support for AWS v4 signature generation.
Create a new Named Credential for the service endpoint, for example:
Name: S3
URL: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Identity Type: ...
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Salesforce Certification ADM201
That should be the one, double check by clicking the study guide link. The study guide should let you know.
Actually, I looked at the study guide and it matched the ADM-201 study guide from when I ...
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Salesforce Platform Developer II Exam
If you check out Salesforce certification page and click the Platform Developer II tab, you will see the following:
A full exam outline can be found in the Study Guide
So if you check out ...
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How can Apex impact the ability to make declarative changes?
This is quite broad (and possibly off topic), but here are some of the most common cases:
Apex Blocks Declarative Changes
Failing Unit Tests in Production will block deployments.
Any API Name ...
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How to include external javascript in visualforce
Note that the Visualforce apex:includeScript results in the HTML <script src="..."></script> being output in the head element of the page i.e. before any of the visible page elements. That ...
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Salesforce certified Administrator or Salesforce certified developer?
Salesforce's Certifications have changed a lot recently. For instance, when I got Certified they were Structured a little like this:
Dev 201: Salesforce Administrator
Dev 301: Salesforce Advanced ...
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What to Study for 401 Developer Exam
Salesforce.com in no longer offering dev 401 certification from Sep 14. Instead of dev 401 you can go for a Salesforce Platform App Builder certification this is completely for a configuration role ...
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Difference between the new Salesforce Platform Developer 1 certificate and the old Developer certification DEV-401
Developer 401 is succeeded by App Builder. Developer 501 is succeeded by two exams namely Platform Developer 1 and Platform Developer 2.
If you hold Developer 401, you can take a transition exam and ...
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New Certified Platform Developer II Exam
This certification program is still in beta - actually it's available to everyone from today, I got the email a couple of hours ago.
The reason this certification doesn't have a passing score is ...
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Certificate Expiration notification
To put in simple terms Self Signed Certificates are like false drivers licence .It provides security to a certain level but can be easily hacked but its still better than having nothing .Check this ...
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Summer 16 Release Exam
First of all there is no certification named 201 . The certification name is "Salesforce Certified Administrator"
I checked that the release readiness video is not yet released and expect to come in ...
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What does SHA256 change for us?
The underlying certificate provided by Salesforce for the connection is changing. This means that you will have to check that the integration you are using can use a SHA-256 certificate.
Salesforce ...
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Question on Salesforce Relationship
The test writers are looking for the Account's relationship to the Warehouse, not the Warehouse's relationship to the Account. That means you have to plug in each word to determine which correctly ...
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Platform Developer 2
Salesforce has a knowledge base article explaining the process. In summary, they will contact you within approximately one week (up to 8 business days) with instructions on what to do next. Once you ...
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Salesforce Certification got expired.
When your certification is expired you have to give certification exam again by paying full exam fee i.e $200.
For more information about certification expiration read this:
https://trailhead....
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If I am working only with lightning and do not use visualforce at all should I wait for the developer certification to be updated?
Your question is too broad, but here's an attempt to provide an answer to it.
To start with - Visualforce is not going away. It's a different framework to build "server-centric" applications. Here's ...
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