Salesforce Platform Developer II Practice Exam

Who should pursue this Certification?

• Advance their careers: Earning the Platform Developer II certification positions you for senior-level developer roles and leadership opportunities within the Salesforce development field.
• Demonstrate expertise: It showcases your advanced programming skills and in-depth knowledge of the Salesforce platform, setting you apart from non-certified developers.
• Develop complex solutions: The certification equips you with the skills to design, build, and deploy intricate Salesforce applications that address challenging business requirements.

Prerequisites

• Hold the Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I credential: This foundational certification validates your core Salesforce development skills. There must be a minimum of six months between passing the Platform Developer I exam and registering for the Platform Developer II exam.
• Extensive Salesforce development experience: While there's no set minimum experience requirement, successfully navigating the Platform Developer II exam typically requires significant practical experience in Salesforce development projects.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Senior Salesforce Developer: Leading and mentoring junior developers, designing complex Salesforce solutions, and implementing robust automation processes.
• Salesforce Solution Architect: Collaborating with stakeholders to design and architect enterprise-grade Salesforce solutions.
• Salesforce Development Manager: Overseeing Salesforce development teams, ensuring adherence to best practices and high-quality development standards.

Exam Details 

• Total Questions: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions
• Exam Duration: 120 minutes
• Passing score: 70% and above
• 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 Platform Developer I credential

Course Outline

• Given a scenario, analyze the effects of using base-system objects such as sharing objects, history objects, metadata objects, multi-currency, and Chatter objects.
• Given a requirement, determine which a declarative or custom-coded solution should be implemented.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the localization features and capabilities and how they affect coding.
• Given a scenario, identify and justify where Apex managed sharing should be used.
• Given scenario information, justify using external IDs in Apex
• Identify use cases for different types of custom metadata and custom settings, and describe how to implement solutions for those use cases.

• Given a scenario, identify the considerations of interactions between multiple processes, both declarative and programmatic.
• Identifying how an Apex method can be made available for use by Lightning Web Components and Aura Components.
• Given a scenario, propose and justify the optimal programmatic or declarative solution.
• Demonstrating knowledge of the best practices for writing Apex triggers.
• Describeingthe Apex features available for error handling and maintaining transactional integrity.
• Identify the advanced keywords used in a SOQL query and how and where they're used in a query's 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 requirements and code snippets for a Lightning Web Component or Aura Component and its Apex controller class, determine necessary changes to the Apex class.
• Describing the techniques for using Visualforce to perform actions and 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 requirements and code snippets for resources in a Lightning Web Component or Aura Component bundle, determine necessary changes to the component.
• 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. 
• Given a scenario, describe how to configure a Lightning Web Component or Aura Component to be displayed in a modal dialog using declarative configuration.
• Describing the purpose and benefit of static resources in Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, and Aura Components.

• Identifying 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.
• Analyzing a given scenario and determine performance improvements that can be achieved with an asynchronous callout. 
• Selecting 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.

• Given a set of requirements, apply the programmatic techniques and platform features for inbound communication.
• Given a scenario, apply programmatic techniques and platform features for outbound communication.
• Given a set of requirements, choose the appropriate integration technique.
• Describe the techniques and benefits of using External IDs for data integration.

• Applying techniques and tools for testing Apex classes and triggers.
• Applying techniques and tools for testing Lightning Web Components, Aura Components, and Visualforce controllers and Visualforce controller extensions.
• Given a scenario or Apex tests that are not performing as expected, apply techniques and tools to isolate and identify the issues.

• Given a scenario, Apex code or trigger that is not performing as expected, apply techniques and tools to isolate and identify the issues.
• Given a scenario, formulate the deployment process, supporting tools, and mechanisms.
• Given a scenario or sample of JavaScript code, identify issues to resolve errors and use best practice patterns.