Review Developer Fundamentals

Learning Objectives

After completing this unit, you'll be able to:

• Understand multitenant concepts and design frameworks.
• Identify use cases and best practices for declarative versus programmatic customization of the Lightning Platform.
• Determine, create, and access the appropriate data model.
• Identify the options and considerations for importing and exporting data into development environments.

Key Topics

This unit prepares you for the Developer Fundamentals section of the Platform Developer I exam, which makes up 23% of the overall exam. This section of the exam tests these topics.

• Multitenant concepts and design frameworks, such as MVC architecture and Lightning Component Framework
• Declarative versus programmatic use cases and best practices, including governor limits, formula fields, and roll-up summaries

This unit provides a number of interactive, real-world, scenario-based questions that are a lot like the ones you can encounter as a Salesforce developer. Looking at these scenarios helps prepare you to take the Developer Fundamentals section of the Platform Developer I exam. As you tackle the practice questions, you get immediate feedback on your answers, along with detailed information on why your answers are correct (or incorrect).

The unit also contains interactive flashcards to help you prepare for the Developer Fundamentals section of the exam.

Exam Practice Questions

Ready to jump in? The sample tool below is not scored—it's just an easy way to quiz yourself. To use it, read the scenario and click the answer you think is correct. Some questions may have more than one correct answer. Click Submit and you get a popup telling you whether the answer you chose is correct or incorrect, and why. If there's a longer explanation, click  and then click anywhere in the window to close it. When you reach the end, you can review the answers or retake the questions.

Exam Topic Flashcards

Use these interactive flashcards to brush up on some of the key topics you'll find on this part of the exam.

Read the question or term on each card, then click the card to reveal the correct answer. Click the right-facing arrow to move to the next card, and the left-facing arrow to return to the previous card.

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