Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam Questions

About the Salesforce Platform App Builder Credential

The Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification shows that you have the skills to create, customize, and launch applications on the Lightning Platform—using simple, point-and-click tools. It’s a great way to highlight your ability to turn business needs into solutions that work.

What You’ll Learn to Do

Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to:

• Create data models, security settings, business logic, and user interfaces for custom apps

• Adapt applications for mobile users

• Build reports and dashboards that help teams make decisions

• Deploy and update apps across the Lightning Platform

Who This Certification Fits

This certification is for professionals with 6 months to 1 year of experience building applications on the Lightning Platform (or similar technology).

Candidates usually:

• Understand the capabilities and limits of the Lightning Platform

• Know Salesforce license types and their impact on design decisions

• Can design apps that support business processes and reporting

• Are familiar with customizing apps for mobile use

• Have worked with Salesforce environments, deployments, and change management

No programming experience is required—this certification focuses on click-based tools, not Apex, Visualforce, or JavaScript.

Why It Matters

With this credential, you can show employers and clients that you’re ready to create apps that streamline work and solve real business challenges. It’s a practical way to build credibility and grow your Salesforce career.

Exam Snapshot

• Format: 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions (+ up to 5 unscored)

• Time: 105 minutes

• Passing Score: 63%

• Version: Aligned to Spring ’24 release

• Cost: $200 USD (+ local taxes)

• Retake Fee: $100 USD (+ local taxes)

• Delivery: Online or onsite, proctored

• Prerequisites: None (training strongly recommended)

Exam Outline

The Salesforce Platform App Builder 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.

Salesforce Fundamentals: 23%

• Given a scenario, identify the boundaries of declarative customization and the use cases for programmatic customization.

• Identify common scenarios for extending an org using the AppExchange.

• Apply features and capabilities available to restrict and extend object, record, and field access.

• Given a set of business requirements, determine the appropriate sharing solution.

• Identify the features and capabilities available when creating reports, report types, and dashboards.

• Given a set of requirements, determine the appropriate global, object-specific actions and layouts to optimize the Salesforce mobile user experience.

• Describe the customizations and use cases for Chatter.

Data Modeling and Management: 22%

• Given a scenario, determine the appropriate data model.

• Given a scenario, explain the capabilities of the various relationship types and the implications of each on record access, user interface, and reporting.

• Given a scenario, determine the considerations when selecting or changing a field data type.

• Explain the capabilities and considerations of the Schema Builder.

• Given a scenario, determine the options and considerations when importing and exporting data, including the capabilities of external data sources.

Business Logic and Process Automation: 28%

• Given a scenario, demonstrate the use of formula fields to meet stated business requirements.

• Given a scenario, determine the capabilities, use cases, and implications of roll-up summary fields.

• Given a scenario, demonstrate the use of validation rules to meet stated business requirements.

• Given a scenario, determine the capabilities and use cases for approval processes.

• Given a scenario, determine the tool or action needed to meet business requirements.

• Given a set of business requirements, recommend a solution to automate business processes while avoiding errors in automation.

User Interface: 17%

• Describe the user interface customization options.

• Demonstrate the capabilities and use cases for custom buttons, links, and actions.

• Given a scenario, determine the declarative options available for incorporating Lightning components in an application.

• Describe the programmatic customizations available for incorporating custom Lightning components in an application.

App Deployment: 10%

• Given a set of business requirements, recommend a solution for key milestones and considerations when managing the application lifecycle and various types of sandboxes.

• Given a use case, demonstrate knowledge, viability, and troubleshooting when using change sets.

• Describe the use cases and considerations when using unmanaged and managed packages.

• Given a scenario, determine the appropriate deployment plan.