About the Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud Developer Certification

The Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Cloud Developer certification is intended for developers who build and maintain eCommerce solutions using Salesforce B2C Commerce. It is suited for Salesforce customers, partners, and employees looking to validate their skills in customizing storefronts, implementing business logic, and working with site architecture.

This credential covers the use of Storefront Reference Architecture (SFRA) and includes tasks such as:

• Building cartridges to add modular functionality

• Creating and managing JavaScript controllers

• Using ISML templates for dynamic page rendering

• Working with Content Slots and Page Designer to create flexible, engaging storefronts

• Validating and managing user input with the Forms Framework

• Modifying site logic using B2C Commerce APIs

• Building and scheduling jobs for batch processing

• Integrating third-party systems using synchronous and asynchronous methods

• Troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing performance

• Scaling and configuring sites for stability and performance

Audience Overview

This exam is intended for developers with at least 1 year of general development experience, including 3–6 months specifically in a B2C Commerce Developer role.

You should be familiar with:

• The architecture of a B2C Commerce site

• Key components: storefronts, catalogs, inventory, products, price books, promotions, cart, and checkout

• SFRA structure, templates, and update impact

• Installing and configuring the SFRA sample site

• Using Business Manager for managing code, preferences, and site data

• Building with an IDE, using Git and Node.js

• Using OCAPI and custom objects

• Writing business logic in scripts and managing job flows

• Troubleshooting code and performance issues

Common Job Titles

This certification is relevant for roles such as:

• Front-End Developer

• Full Stack Developer

• Software Developer

• JavaScript Programmer

• Web Application Developer

• Support Engineer

Exam Details

• Number of Questions: 60 scored multiple-choice questions (up to 65 total)

• Time: 105 minutes

• Passing Score: 65%

• Version: Based on Spring '23 release

• Registration Fee: $200 USD

• Delivery Options: Online proctored or onsite testing center

• Prerequisites: None

• Resources: No reference materials allowed during the exam

Note: Up to five non-scored questions may be included to test new content. These do not impact your score and are not identified during the exam.

Exam Outline

The Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud Developer Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives. A candidate should have hands-on experience with B2C Commerce and should be able to demonstrate knowledge and expertise in each of the areas below.

B2C Commerce Setup: 11%

• Given a sandbox environment, configure an IDE to use WebDAV to deploy cartridges to the correct version directories.

• Given a sandbox instance and data import files, import files using the Business Manager Import/Export modules.

• Given the code for a storefront site, add the correct sequence of cartridge names to the provided cartridge path.

• Given a sandbox environment, use the Business Manager to add a new site to the instance, configuring the default currency and taxation type according to business requirements.

• Given a recently created B2C site, assign the storefront data configurations according to business requirements.

Work With a B2C Site: 12%

• Given a Business Manager task, work with the product data model to manage products and product search model, their categorization, and associated inventory and pricebooks.

• Given a configuration for tasks, such as payment and shipping information, use Business Manager to enable shoppers to complete storefront orders.

• Given a configuration task, use Business Manager to work with Content Assets, Page Designer, Content Slots, and Content Folders.

Data Management Using Business Manager Usage: 24%

• Given a business requirement, modify site search preferences and settings to enable searching for a specified term or product attribute.

• Given a business requirement, create and configure a new search refinement and sorting definition that can be used on the storefront.

• Given a debugging requirement or code, configure the logging categories and access the logs in Business Manager.

• Given business requirements, extend the storefront to expose a new attribute on an existing system object type.

• Given a business need to store custom data, determine if a custom object is needed and create and configure as required.

• Given a problem or performance issue and data, use relevant tools to inspect code performance and determine and implement solutions (cache configuration, profilers, etc.) to resolve this issue.

• Given a specification and a sandbox instance, configure OCAPI permissions for Data and Shop APIs.

• Given a service configuration, recognize how they are applicable to the development process.

Application Development: 53%

• Given a development task, code ISML templates that use functionality, such as local include, remote include, components, and other ISML tags.

• Use debugging best practices and techniques to troubleshoot scripts and controllers and verify outcomes.

• Given a requirement, create and extend the functionality of a JavaScript controller that leverages models, decorators, factories, or helpers following API best practices, and renders a template or returns a JSON response.

• Given a business requirement and design for a new marketing page, develop page types and components to allow a marketer to build a page with the Page Designer tool.

• Given a requirement to accept, validate, and persist information from a storefront customer, modify the appearance of a form, add validation and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection, and use bindings to process fields.

• Given localization requirements, implement and enhance templates, form definitions, static files, properties files, and persistent object attributes to ensure that pages are displayed in the expected language.

• Given a logging task and existing configuration, write code that logs non-sensitive data to custom log files with different log levels.

• Integrate, deploy, and use a service instance based on a given requirement.

• Given a use case, extend functionality or capture an event using hook extension points.

• Given code that violates documented best practices, identify the issues and modify the code to conform with best practices including performance and scalability.

• Given a business requirement, use OCAPI Shop and Data APIs to enable interoperability with an external system.

• Given a business requirement to perform a scheduled task, develop jobs and code job scripts.