Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam Guide

About the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam
Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
Purpose of This Exam Guide
About the Exam
Exam Outline
Recommended Training and Resources
Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct
Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

About the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam

The Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam is designed for individuals who would like to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in designing, building, and deploying custom applications using the declarative customization capabilities of the Lightning Platform. The candidate can create, manage, and update data models, application security, business logic, and process automation.

Here are some examples of the concepts you should understand to pass the exam.

How to design the data model, user interface, business logic, and security for custom applications
How to customize applications for mobile use
How to design reports and dashboards
How to deploy custom applications

Audience Description: Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder

The Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam is intended for an individual who has experience developing custom applications on the Lightning Platform, including practical application of the skills and concepts noted in the exam objectives below.

The Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder generally has 6 months to 1 year of experience building applications on the Lightning Platform and/or on a similar technology platform.

The Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder candidate has the experience, skills, and knowledge outlined below.

Familiarity with the capabilities of the Lightning Platform
Awareness of Salesforce license types and related considerations
Ability to design applications to support business processes and reporting requirements
Familiarity with capabilities and customization used to enhance the mobile user experience
Familiarity with the Salesforce development environments and the options available to deploy applications and manage changes on the Lightning Platform
Comprehension of the resources listed in this exam guide and the additional required study materials provided by Salesforce

A candidate for this exam is not expected to be able to administer Sales Cloud or Service Cloud, have programmatic development experience, design custom interfaces using Visualforce, or design custom Lightning components using Apex or JavaScript.

Purpose of This Exam Guide

This exam guide is designed to help you prepare for the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam. This guide provides information about the target audience, the recommended training and documentation, and a complete list of exam objectives. Salesforce highly recommends a combination of on-the-job experience and self-study to maximize your chances of passing the exam.

About the Exam

Here are details about the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam.

Content: 60 multiple-choice questions and up to five unscored questions
Time allotted to complete the exam: 105 minutes
Passing score: 63%
Version: Exam questions align to the Spring '24 release
Registration fee: US$200, JPY¥30,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
Retake fee: US$100, JPY¥30,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online environment; find more information on scheduling an exam here.
References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
Prerequisite: None

This exam may contain up to five additional unscored questions to gather performance data. Unscored questions are randomly integrated and have no impact on your final exam result.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Recommended Training and Resources

As preparation for this exam, we recommend a combination of hands-on experience, training course completion, Trailhead Trails, and self-study in the areas listed in the Exam Outline section of this exam guide.

The self-study materials recommended for this exam include:

Trailmix: Prepare for Your Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification
Superbadge: Object Relationships Superbadge Unit
Superbadge: User Access Fundamentals Superbadge Unit
Superbadge: Formulas Superbadge Unit
Superbadge: Data Quality and Validation Unit
Superbadge: Flow Fundamentals Superbadge Unit

To review online documentation, tip sheets, and user guides, search for the topics listed in the Exam Outline section of this guide on Salesforce Help and study the information related to those topics.

Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct

At Salesforce, Trust is our #1 value. Protecting the security of Salesforce Certifications is up to all of us. As a participant in the Salesforce Certification Program, you’re required to review and accept the terms of the Salesforce Certification Program Agreement and Code of Conduct at the beginning of each exam.

Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

One of the benefits of holding a Salesforce Certification is always being up to date on new product releases. You'll be required to complete the Platform App Builder certification maintenance badge on Trailhead three times a year.

Don’t let your hard-earned certification expire! If you don't complete all maintenance requirements by the due date, your certification will expire.

Bookmark these useful resources for maintaining your certifications.

Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Exam Guide

Contents