Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II Exam: Comprehensive Study Guide 2023 (Online Access Included)

Congratulations on taking the next step to prepare for your Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II credential. This exam guide has the information you need to help you study and prepare for your exam.

Welcome to our ebook, "Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II". This resource has been meticulously crafted to provide a comprehensive guide for those who are aspiring to take a significant step in their Salesforce career.

Exam outline
The Salesforce Platform Developer II exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives. A candidate should have hands-on experience developing custom applications on the Lightning Platform and have demonstrated the application of each of the features/functions below.

Advanced Developer Fundamentals: 15%
• Demonstrate knowledge of localization and multi-currency features and capabilities and how they affect coding.
• Given a scenario, justify using sharing objects and Apex managed sharing.
• Given a scenario, identify best practices for various types of custom metadata and custom settings, and how to implement required solutions.

Process Automation, Logic, and Integration: 27%
• 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.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the best practices for writing Apex triggers.
• Describe the Apex features available for error handling and maintaining transactional integrity.
• Demonstrate how and where to use advanced keywords in a SOQL query structure.
• Given a scenario, identify the appropriate publish / subscribe logic for platform events.

User Interface: 20%
•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.
• Identify 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 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.

Testing, Debugging, and Deployment: 20%
• Apply advanced techniques and tools for testing Apex classes and triggers, such as mocks and stubs.
• Apply techniques and tools for testing and debugging Lightning Web Components, Aura Components, and Visualforce controllers, Visualforce controller extensions, and JavaScript.
Performance: 18%
• Identify 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.
• Analyze a given scenario and determine performance improvements that can be achieved with an asynchronous callout.

This ebook covers all these areas in detail. We delve deep into each topic, breaking down complex concepts into comprehensible nuggets. We also provide practical examples and scenarios to aid your understanding and prepare you for the type of questions you might encounter in the exam.