The Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II program is intended for an individual who has experience developing custom applications on the Lightning Platform, including practical application of the skills and concepts noted in the exam objectives below.
The Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II generally has two to four years of experience as a developer, including at least one year of design, implementation, and deployment experience on the Lightning Platform.
The Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II candidate has the experience, skills, and knowledge outlined below:
- Understands the principles and best practices of Salesforce data modeling, interface design, code development, and testing, and can apply these principles in real-world
development environments.
- Is capable of defining appropriate solutions to meet specific business challenges/process requirements to extend/customize the platform by applying knowledge of declarative and programmatic features of the Lightning Platform.
- Is competent developing Apex code that will scale to large data sets; has a good understanding of platform behaviors, limits, and performance considerations.
- Can build custom user interfaces to display and interact with Salesforce data using the Lightning Component Framework, advanced Visualforce, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Is competent tuning Visualforce pages and understands performance implications of the controller design.
- Understands and applies best practices for general web and Salesforce-specific security concerns.
- Can design and implement complex sharing models using declarative and programmatic methods.
- Can design and implement a test plan that ensures adequate quality (e.g., code coverage, application behaviors, scalability, environment independence, security) across application components.
- Can deploy custom applications, has a broad understanding of the Salesforce development lifecycle, and understands deployment tools and knows when to apply each tool.
- Understands and uses Apex SOAP and REST web services and how to call out from Apex using SOAP and REST.
- Understands and uses asynchronous programming – queueable, batchable,schedulable, @future, etc.
- Understands and applies appropriate techniques for error and exception handling in various programmatic contexts.
- Implements best practices for trigger development and design patterns, other business logic development, and reuse.
- Knows how to surface Lightning Components on a Lightning page and with Quick Actions.
A candidate for this exam is not expected to:
- Administer any standard Salesforce application.
- Design a technical architecture solution that spans multiple platforms and includes integration and authentication across systems.
- Develop and publish managed products on the App Exchange that require a security review.
- Create a Quick Action.
- Surface Lightning Components in all possible locations.
- Use all Salesforce APIs (i.e. metadata).
ABOUT THE EXAM
The Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II Multiple Choice exam has the following characteristics:
- Content: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions
- Time allotted to complete the exam: 120 minutes
- Passing Score: 63%
- Registration fee: USD 200, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
- Retake fee: USD 100, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
- Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online proctored environment.
- References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
- Prerequisite: Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I credential
