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Salesforce Certified Platform Developer

ABOUT THE EXAM
Certified Platform Developers understand how to develop and deploy custom business logic and custom interfaces using the programmatic capabilities of the Lightning Platform. They know when to use declarative versus programmatic methods, and can extend the Lightning Platform using Apex and Visualforce.
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~43 hrs 10 mins
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