Complete Salesforce Certified Platform Developer 1 Course

Access a Salesforce developer edition to begin exploring fundamentals that form the foundation of Salesforce development. Learn how fundamentals account for 7% of the Platform Developer I exam.

Describe how Salesforce operates in a multitenant environment with unique org endpoints, data isolation, gov limits, and shared resources, highlighting faster setup, cost efficiency, standardization, and cross-pollination opportunities.

Export data from Salesforce via immediate or scheduled exports, choose encoding and optional document inclusion, replace returns with spaces, then download the zip and review contacts, production, and crew records.

Explore building and debugging flows in Salesforce, including auto launched flows, actions, sub flows, variables, decisions, loops, data operations, and screen flow rollback.

Navigate the Salesforce developer console to edit apex classes and triggers, run anonymous apex and apex tests, and view debug logs and metadata.

Learn to create a basic account trigger in Salesforce, use Trigger.new and System.debug to monitor before insert events, and view debug logs as you save and test accounts.

Begin developing apex classes to encapsulate trigger logic, serve as controllers for Visualforce pages and Lightning components, and expose invocable methods for flows, process builders, and web service methods.

Create a basic Apex trigger handler to separate logic from the trigger, using a public static before insert method that accepts a list of accounts.

Explore Apex class modifiers, including global, public, and private, plus namespaces, managed packages, inner classes, virtual or abstract keywords, with or without sharing, and inheritance.

Master Apex primitive data types—string, boolean, integer, decimal, double, date, dateTime, time, and Salesforce ID—with creation, validation, and type conversion using value methods.

Explore complex data types in Apex by creating account objects with s object, using constructors and field mappings, and mastering string concatenation and debugging in debug logs.

Learn how arrays work in Apex, including lists, sets, and maps, with zero-based indexing, creation, adding, removing, and access through get, put, and contains.

Explore basic comparison operators in Apex, including equals, not equals, and greater than or equal. Build conditions with trigger.size and the number of employees using and, or, and parentheses.

Explore how a ternary operator replaces an if statement to simplify logic and shorten code, using a condition like employees greater than 50 to update an account number.

Master the while loop in apex development and learn the do while loop, which runs at least once before checking its condition.

Demonstrates using a try/catch block in Apex to handle list index out of bounds, inspect exception messages, and conditionally throw or debug, keeping trigger logic robust.

Learn how to create a custom exception in Apex, extend exception, throw it from an account trigger handler, and test it in a before insert trigger with a message.

Explore building a before insert and before update Apex trigger on opportunities to calculate tax from tax percentage and amount, update total price, and implement a reusable tax calculation method.