Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Cloud Developer Questions

About the Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud Developer Certification

The Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Cloud Developer credential validates your ability to develop and maintain eCommerce storefronts using Salesforce B2C Commerce (formerly Demandware). This certification is ideal for developers who work with B2C Commerce Digital and want to demonstrate their skills in creating scalable, customized shopping experiences.

You’ll be assessed on your ability to build solutions using the Storefront Reference Architecture (SFRA), manage site logic with JavaScript controllers, create reusable code with ISML templates, and use key platform features such as OCAPI, jobs, custom objects, and Page Designer.

Key Skills Covered

Certified B2C Commerce Cloud Developers are expected to:

Development and Architecture

• Understand the architecture of B2C Commerce and how core components like catalogs, products, price books, and promotions work together.

• Work with SFRA structure, page types, and templates, including managing updates to SFRA or the platform.

• Use ISML templates, JavaScript, and controllers to implement site functionality and business logic.

• Choose between out-of-the-box features and custom code based on project needs.

Tools and Integration

• Use Business Manager for code versioning, site settings, data imports/exports, and preference management.

• Work in an IDE to create, upload, and manage code versions.

• Use the Open Commerce API (OCAPI) and REST APIs to connect with external systems.

• Create and manage jobs for batch processing using best practices.

Performance and Troubleshooting

• Monitor and optimize site performance.

• Use debugging tools to resolve code or configuration issues.

• Apply best practices to ensure scalability and maintainability of the site.

Recommended Experience

This certification is designed for developers with:

• At least 1 year of development experience

• 3–6 months working directly with B2C Commerce Cloud

• A working knowledge of Node.js, Git, and REST APIs

Common job titles include:

• Front-End Developer

• Web Application Developer

• Software Developer

• Full Stack Developer

• Support Engineer

About the Exam

• Number of Questions: 60 scored (up to 65 total, including unscored)

• Time: 105 minutes

• Passing Score: 65%

• Release Version: Spring ’23

• Registration Fee: $200 USD

• Delivery: Online or in-person proctored exam

• Materials: No reference materials allowed during the exam

• Prerequisites: None

Note: The exam may include up to five unscored questions for research purposes. These do not affect your score.

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.