Salesforce Platform Developer II Practice Exam

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

• Demonstrating knowledge of localization and multi-currency features and capabilities and how they affect coding.
• Given a scenario, justifying using sharing objects and Apex managed sharing.
• Given a scenario, identifying best practices for various types of custom metadata and custom settings, and how to implement required solutions.

• Given a scenario, identify the considerations of interactions between multiple processes, both declarative and programmatic.
• Given a scenario, propose and justify the optimal programmatic or declarative solution.
• Demonstrating knowledge of the best practices for writing Apex triggers.
• Describing the Apex features available for error handling and maintaining transactional integrity.
• Demonstrating how and where to use advanced keywords in a SOQL query structure.
• Analyzing 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 a scenario, identifying the appropriate publish / subscribe logic for platform events.
• Given a scenario, applying programmatic integration techniques and platform features for inbound and outbound communication.

• Given requirements and code snippets for a Lightning web component or Aura component and its Apex controller class, analyze and determine necessary changes to the Apex class.
• Identifying the techniques for using Visualforce to perform actions, partial page refreshes, and asynchronous operations.
• Given a scenario, identify best practices for displaying errors in the user interface.
• Given a set of requirements, selecting the appropriate Lightning web component, Aura component, or Visualforce solution and describe its benefits.
• Given a scenario, describing 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, implementing the correct method to communicate events through Lightning web components or Aura components.  
• Describing the purpose and benefit of static resources in Visualforce, Lightning web components, and Aura components.

• Applying advanced techniques and tools for testing Apex classes and triggers, such as mocks and stubs.
• Applying techniques and tools for testing and debugging Lightning web components, Aura components, and Visualforce controllers, Visualforce controller extensions, and JavaScript.
• Given a scenario, Apex code, Apex trigger, or Apex test that is not executing as expected, apply techniques and tools to isolate and identify the root cause.
• Given a scenario, formulating the deployment process, supporting tools, and mechanisms for source-driven development.

• Identifying the common performance issues for user interfaces and demonstrating knowledge of techniques and tools to mitigate them.
• Given a scenario, choosing the appropriate logic and query structure to maximize application performance and handle large data volumes.
• Analyzing a given scenario and determining 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, identifying inefficiencies and demonstrating the ability to resolve them.