Description
Exam Outline
Elevate your tech career with the Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II exam, a definitive measure of a candidate’s expertise and proficiency. This exam meticulously evaluates your grasp on vital objectives. Candidates shining in this assessment typically bring a rich tapestry of hands-on experience, particularly in crafting custom applications on the renowned Lightning Platform. Beyond mere theoretical knowledge, it’s the practical application and mastery of specific features/functions that make a difference. Prepare to not only pass the exam but also to rank prominently in search engine results, showcasing your credentials to the world.
Advanced Developer Fundamentals: 15%
- Demonstrate knowledge of localization and multi-currency features and capabilities and how they affect coding.
- Given a scenario, justify using sharing objects and Apex managed sharing.
- Given a scenario, identify best practices for various types of custom metadata and custom settings, and how to implement required solutions.
Process Automation, Logic, and Integration: 27%
- Given a scenario, identify the considerations of interactions between multiple processes, both declarative and programmatic.
- Given a scenario, propose and justify the optimal programmatic or declarative solution.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the best practices for writing Apex triggers.
- Describe the Apex features available for error handling and maintaining transactional integrity.
- Demonstrate how and where to use advanced keywords in a SOQL query structure.
- Analyze a set of requirements and determine the benefits of using asynchronous Apex coding.
- Given a scenario and requirements, identify the appropriate dynamic Apex feature to use in the solution.
- Given a scenario, identify the appropriate publish / subscribe logic for platform events.
- Given a scenario, apply programmatic integration techniques and platform features for inbound and outbound communication.
User Interface: 20%
- Given requirements and code snippets for a Lightning Web Component or Aura Component and its Apex controller class, analyze and determine necessary changes to the Apex class.
- Identify the techniques for using Visualforce to perform actions, partial page refreshes, and asynchronous operations.
- Given a scenario, identify best practices for displaying errors in the user interface.
- Given a set of requirements, select the appropriate Lightning Web Component, Aura Component, or Visualforce solution and describe its benefits.
- Given a scenario, describe the aspects of Lightning Web Components or Aura Components that can be used to cause elements in a component’s markup to display in a responsive manner based on a device’s form factor.
- Given a scenario, implement the correct method to communicate events through Lightning Web Components or Aura Components.
- Describe the purpose and benefit of static resources in Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, and Aura Components.
Testing, Debugging, and Deployment: 20%
- Apply advanced techniques and tools for testing Apex classes and triggers, such as mocks and stubs.
- Apply techniques and tools for testing and debugging Lightning Web Components, Aura Components, and Visualforce controllers, Visualforce controller extensions, and JavaScript.
- Given a scenario, Apex code, Apex trigger, or Apex test that is not executing as expected, apply techniques and tools to isolate and identify the root cause.
- Given a scenario, formulate the deployment process, supporting tools, and mechanisms for source-driven development.
Performance: 18%
- Identify the common performance issues for user interfaces and demonstrate knowledge of techniques and tools to mitigate them.
- Given a scenario, choose the appropriate logic and query structure to maximize application performance and handle large data volumes.
- Analyze a given scenario and determine performance improvements that can be achieved with an asynchronous callout.
- Select scenarios where code reuse is applicable and how the reuse should be implemented.
- Given sample code, identify inefficiencies and demonstrate the ability to resolve them.