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Salesforce PDI Exam Overview :

Exam Name: Platform Developer I
Exam Code: PDI
Certifications: Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification
Actual Exam Duration: 105 minutes
Expected no. of Questions in Actual Exam: 60
Exam Registration Price: US$200
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Salesforce PDI Exam Objectives :

Section Weight Objectives
Developer Fundamentals: 7%
  • Understand multi-tenant concepts and design frameworks, such as MVC architecture and Lightning Component Framework.
  • Given a scenario, identify common use cases and best practices for declarative versus programmatic customizations, including governor limits, formula fields, and roll-up summaries.
  • Given a scenario, determine, create, and access the appropriate data model including objects, fields, relationships, and external IDs.
  • Given a scenario, identify the options and considerations when importing and exporting data into development environments.
 
Process Automation and Logic: 30%
  • Identify the capabilities of the declarative process automation features.
  • Declare variables, constants, methods, and use modifiers and Apex interfaces.
  • Given a scenario, use and apply Apex control flow statements.
  • Given a scenario, write SOSL, SOQL, and DML statements in Apex.
  • Given a scenario, follow best practices to write Apex classes and triggers.
  • Given a scenario, identify the implications of governor limits on Apex transactions.
  • Describe the relationship between Apex transactions, the save order of execution, and the potential for recursion and/or cascading.
  • Implement exception handling in Apex, including custom exceptions as needed.
  • Given a scenario, use declarative functionality and Apex together to automate business logic.
User Interface: 25%
  • Given a scenario, display content or modify Salesforce data using a Visualforce page and the appropriate controllers or extensions as needed.
  • Describe the Lightning Component Framework, its benefits, and the types of content that can be contained in a Lightning web component.
  • Given a scenario, prevent user interface and data access security vulnerabilities. 
  • Given a scenario, display and use a custom user interface components, including Lightning components, Flow, and Visualforce.
  • Describe the use cases and best practices for Lightning Web Component events.
  • Given a scenario, implement Apex to work with various types of page components, including Lightning components, Flow, Next Best Actions, etc.
Testing, Debugging, and Deployment: 22%
  • Write and execute tests for triggers, controllers, classes, flows, and processes using various sources of test data.
  • Given a scenario, know how and when to use the Salesforce Developer tools such as Salesforce DX, Salesforce CLI, and Developer Console.
  • Describe how to approach debugging system issues and monitoring flows, processes, and asynchronous and batch jobs, etc.
  • Describe the environments, requirements, and process for deploying code and associated configurations.
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