This first course in our Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I Certification series contains 3.5 hours of in-depth video training.

The knowledge areas covered in this course are:

• Salesforce Fundamentals

• Data Modeling and Management

• Process Automation and Logic (Declarative Only)

This course covers primarily declarative functionality, while parts 2 and 3 cover developing with Apex, Visualforce and Lightning Components.

In this course, we cover:

• Salesforce Fundamentals

• Data Modeling and Management

• Standard and Custom Object Configurations

• Custom Fields

• Formulas

• Relationships

• Roll-up Summaries

• Object Security

• Data Loading Tools

• Platform Events

• Flows

• Save Order of Execution

• Workflow Rules

• Process Builder

From the Salesforce Platform Developer I exam guide regarding the Salesforce Fundamentals knowledge area, the following objectives are outlined:

• Describe the considerations when developing in a multi-tenant environment.

• Understand design frameworks, such as MVC architecture and Lightning Component Framework, and how to build applications using both declarative and programmatic tools.

• Given a scenario, identify common use cases for declarative versus programmatic customizations.

From the Salesforce Platform Developer I exam guide regarding the Data Modeling and Management knowledge area, the following objectives are outlined:

• Given a set of requirements, determine, create, and access the appropriate data model including objects, fields, and relationships.

• Describe the capabilities of the various relationship types and custom IDs and the implications of each on record access and development.

• Describe the options for and considerations when importing and exporting data into development environments.

• Describe the capabilities and use cases for formula fields and roll-up summary fields.

From the Process Automation and Logic knowledge area, we cover the first objective from the exam guide, which is:

• Describe the capabilities of the declarative process automation features.

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