Salesforce Developer: Free Skill Evaluation

CRM customer lifecycle Salesforce Platform Sales Cloud Critical Salesforce concept MULTI-TENANT ARCHITECTURE Understand why Salesforce applications are heavily metadata-driven METADATA-DRIVEN PLATFORM production org sandbox Account Contact CUSTOM OBJECTS CUSTOM OBJECTS Fundamentals Text Number OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS Fundamentals Student Course FORMULA FIELDS FORMULA FIELDS Fundamentals ROLL-UP SUMMARY ROLL-UP SUMMARY Fundamentals VALIDATION RULES VALIDATION RULES Fundamentals RECORD TYPES RECORD TYPES Fundamentals PAGE LAYOUTS PAGE LAYOUTS Fundamentals LIGHTNING RECORD PAGES LIGHTNING RECORD PAGES Fundamentals Data Import Wizard concepts Data Loader Important for integrations/upsert EXTERNAL IDS validation duplicate rules SALESFORCE SECURITY MODEL SALESFORCE SECURITY MODEL Fundamentals USERS USERS Fundamentals PROFILES PROFILES Fundamentals Prefer flexible permission assignment PERMISSION SETS PERMISSION SET GROUPS PERMISSION SET GROUPS Fundamentals CRUD OBJECT SECURITY FIELD-LEVEL SECURITY FIELD-LEVEL SECURITY Fundamentals ORGANIZATION-WIDE DEFAULTS ORGANIZATION-WIDE DEFAULTS Fundamentals ROLE HIERARCHY ROLE HIERARCHY Fundamentals SHARING RULES SHARING RULES Fundamentals MANUAL SHARING MANUAL SHARING Fundamentals Sales representative sees own customer records Manager sees team records One of the most important Salesforce developer decisions DECLARATIVE VS PROGRAMMATIC formulas Primary declarative automation technology FLOW Fundamentals RECORD-TRIGGERED FLOW RECORD-TRIGGERED FLOW Fundamentals SCREEN FLOW SCREEN FLOW Fundamentals AUTOLAUNCHED FLOW AUTOLAUNCHED FLOW Fundamentals SCHEDULED FLOW SCHEDULED FLOW Fundamentals SUBFLOWS SUBFLOWS Fundamentals FLOW VARIABLES FLOW VARIABLES Fundamentals DECISIONS DECISIONS Fundamentals LOOPS LOOPS Fundamentals COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS Fundamentals FLOW ERROR HANDLING FLOW ERROR HANDLING Fundamentals FLOW DEBUGGING FLOW DEBUGGING Fundamentals score lead assign owner Teach syntax APEX FUNDAMENTALS VARIABLES VARIABLES Fundamentals DATA TYPES DATA TYPES Fundamentals CONTROL FLOW CONTROL FLOW Fundamentals METHODS METHODS Fundamentals CLASSES CLASSES Fundamentals inheritance interfaces List Set EXCEPTIONS EXCEPTIONS Fundamentals Understand generic Salesforce records SOBJECT insert update Understand partial-success operations DATABASE METHODS Everything inside one Salesforce transaction shares limits TRANSACTIONS SOQL limits DML limits Collect IDs One Query SELECT WHERE Parent-to-child Child-to-parent AGGREGATE SOQL AGGREGATE SOQL Fundamentals SOQL BIND VARIABLES SOQL BIND VARIABLES Fundamentals Use carefully DYNAMIC SOQL Use when search across multiple objects/fields is required SOSL Students should choose correctly SOQL VS SOSL before insert before update Trigger.new Trigger.old Critical interview/production topic ORDER OF EXECUTION TRIGGER BULKIFICATION TRIGGER BULKIFICATION Fundamentals Prefer organized orchestration ONE TRIGGER PER OBJECT PATTERN TRIGGER HANDLER PATTERN TRIGGER HANDLER PATTERN Fundamentals Do not use fragile static flags blindly Teach proper transaction-aware designs validate seat calculate pricing Future awareness Queueable Preferred for many async business operations QUEUEABLE APEX Process large datasets BATCH APEX SCHEDULED APEX SCHEDULED APEX Fundamentals ASYNC LIMITS ASYNC LIMITS Fundamentals Queueable chaining patterns CHAINING Process large enrollment dataset and generate status FINALIZERS Concepts variables functions let/const arrow functions PROMISES / ASYNC PROMISES / ASYNC Fundamentals HTML HTML Fundamentals CSS CSS Fundamentals Primary Salesforce UI framework LIGHTNING WEB COMPONENTS LWC COMPONENT STRUCTURE LWC COMPONENT STRUCTURE Fundamentals DATA BINDING DATA BINDING Fundamentals Parent-child communication EVENTS PROPERTIES PROPERTIES Fundamentals LIFECYCLE HOOKS LIFECYCLE HOOKS Fundamentals CONDITIONAL RENDERING CONDITIONAL RENDERING Fundamentals LIST RENDERING LIST RENDERING Fundamentals LIGHTNING BASE COMPONENTS LIGHTNING BASE COMPONENTS Fundamentals LIGHTNING DESIGN SYSTEM LIGHTNING DESIGN SYSTEM Fundamentals WIRE SERVICE WIRE SERVICE Fundamentals Prefer platform services where appropriate LIGHTNING DATA SERVICE IMPERATIVE APEX IMPERATIVE APEX Fundamentals CALLING APEX FROM LWC CALLING APEX FROM LWC Fundamentals CACHEABLE METHODS CACHEABLE METHODS Fundamentals LWC ERROR HANDLING LWC ERROR HANDLING Fundamentals FORMS FORMS Fundamentals MODALS MODALS Fundamentals DATA TABLES DATA TABLES Fundamentals PAGINATION PAGINATION Fundamentals SEARCH SEARCH Fundamentals CUSTOM EVENTS CUSTOM EVENTS Fundamentals COMPOSITION COMPOSITION Fundamentals unnecessary Apex unnecessary rendering Lightning security architecture client-side limitations Needed for legacy Salesforce codebases Do not make Visualforce primary UI technology Legacy maintenance only AURA COMPONENT Concepts ERP payment system Understand inbound/outbound APIs REST API SALESFORCE REST API SALESFORCE REST API Fundamentals Create custom REST endpoints APEX REST Call external systems HTTP CALLOUTS Use secure endpoint/credential management NAMED CREDENTIALS EXTERNAL CREDENTIALS Concepts EXTERNAL CREDENTIALS AWARENESS Fundamentals Understand secure API authorization OAUTH Legacy enterprise integrations SOAP API Concepts Large data integration BULK API COMPOSITE API Concepts COMPOSITE API AWARENESS Fundamentals Portal Event-driven Salesforce PLATFORM EVENTS PUBLISH / SUBSCRIBE PUBLISH / SUBSCRIBE Fundamentals Understand changes as events CHANGE DATA CAPTURE Choose appropriately PLATFORM EVENTS VS CDC PAYMENT_COMPLETED EVENT-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION PATTERNS INTEGRATION PATTERNS Fundamentals Current enterprise Salesforce roles frequently value middleware familiarity Teach integration architecture awareness Conceptual only BOOMI / INFORMATICA Concepts Critical Apex executes in contexts that require deliberate security enforcement WITH SHARING WITH SHARING Fundamentals WITHOUT SHARING WITHOUT SHARING Fundamentals INHERITED SHARING INHERITED SHARING Fundamentals CRUD / FLS ENFORCEMENT CRUD / FLS ENFORCEMENT Fundamentals Teach current secure data-access patterns USER MODE OPERATIONS STRIP INACCESSIBLE Concepts STRIP INACCESSIBLE AWARENESS Fundamentals Teach prevention SOQL INJECTION XSS Concepts XSS AWARENESS Fundamentals Counsellor Salesforce production deployment requires tests TESTING APEX TEST METHODS TEST METHODS Fundamentals Use isolated test data TEST DATA TESTSETUP TESTSETUP Fundamentals STARTTEST / STOPTEST STARTTEST / STOPTEST Fundamentals ASSERTIONS ASSERTIONS Fundamentals TESTING TRIGGERS TESTING TRIGGERS Fundamentals TESTING ASYNC APEX TESTING ASYNC APEX Fundamentals Use mocks TESTING CALLOUTS NEGATIVE TESTING NEGATIVE TESTING Fundamentals Test 200-record scenarios where applicable BULK TESTING Test different user-access scenarios SECURITY TESTING Teach JavaScript unit-testing concepts LWC TESTING debug logs execution flow DEVELOPER CONSOLE Concepts DEVELOPER CONSOLE AWARENESS Fundamentals Primary modern development environment VS CODE + SALESFORCE EXTENSIONS Teach project operations SALESFORCE CLI Teach source-driven development SALESFORCE DX SFDX PROJECT STRUCTURE SFDX PROJECT STRUCTURE Fundamentals SOURCE FORMAT SOURCE FORMAT Fundamentals Use where applicable SCRATCH ORGS Developer Developer Pro DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE Fundamentals branch commit Salesforce-specific challenge MERGE CONFLICTS IN METADATA validate test Use for Salesforce CI/CD GITHUB ACTIONS Current enterprise roles still request Jenkins/Azure DevOps JENKINS Concepts AZURE DEVOPS Concepts AZURE DEVOPS AWARENESS Fundamentals VALIDATION DEPLOYMENTS QUICK DEPLOY CONCEPTS Handle carefully DESTRUCTIVE CHANGES GitHub Static Checks Go beyond memorization GOVERNOR LIMIT ENGINEERING Understand query selectivity SELECTIVITY indexed fields selective queries SKINNY TABLE Concepts PLATFORM CACHE Concepts CACHING IN LWC Keep transaction work efficient TRANSACTION DESIGN Understand record-lock issues LOCKING Understand restrictions MIXED DML ERROR HANDLING ARCHITECTURE Enterprise applications need traceability beyond random debug statements LOGGING FRAMEWORK CONCEPTS Trigger Handler Service Layer Use complexity proportionately ENTERPRISE APEX ARCHITECTURE UNIT OF WORK Concepts REPOSITORY/SELECTOR CONCEPTS Use for configuration CUSTOM METADATA Know legacy/use cases CUSTOM SETTINGS Concepts Custom Metadata-based feature configuration FEATURE TOGGLES MULTI-CURRENCY Concepts LOCALIZATION Lead Opportunity Case routing External customer/partner portals EXPERIENCE CLOUD Concepts Products Price Books INDUSTRY CLOUD Concepts Understand unified customer data concepts DATA CLOUD Concepts Current Salesforce development increasingly includes AI/agent capabilities AGENTFORCE FOUNDATION developer assistance generation actions data access sharing object security summarize account/case recommend next action limits scale Bulk API async strategy Choose event/API model REAL-TIME INTEGRATION DESIGN LARGE DATA DESIGN MULTI-ORG Concepts DATA ARCHIVAL governor limits API limits query batch size