The Complete Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: 1 – Introduction & Overview

Lecture 1: The Platform App Builder Exam Guide

Lecture 2: Signing Up for a Free Salesforce Account

Chapter 2: Salesforce Fundamentals

Lecture 1: Salesforce Fundamentals Introduction

Lecture 2: Boundaries of Declarative Customizations / Programmatic Customizations

Lecture 3: Extending a Salesforce Org Using the AppExchange

Lecture 4: Security Fundamentals Overview – Bullet Points 3 and 4 from the Exam Guide

Lecture 5: Object Manager and the Salesforce Object Model

Lecture 6: Sharing Solutions – A Guide to Sharing Architecture

Lecture 7: Extending Object Access

Lecture 8: Turning On the Enhanced Profile User Interface via User Management Settings

Lecture 9: Extending Object Access via Profile

Lecture 10: Extending Object Access via Permission Set

Lecture 11: Permission Set Group

Lecture 12: Multitenant Architecture Overview

Lecture 13: Understanding the MVC Design Pattern of Salesforce

Lecture 14: The Salesforce Schema

Lecture 15: Helpful Practice Activity – Downloading Apps off the AppExchange

Lecture 16: Helpful Practice Activity – Resetting Your Security Token

Chapter 3: Data Modeling and Management

Lecture 1: Data Modeling and Management Introduction

Lecture 2: Let’s Talk About Objects

Lecture 3: Understanding Standard Objects

Lecture 4: Understanding Custom Objects

Lecture 5: Helpful Practice Activity – Creating Custom Objects for an IMDb Clone App

Lecture 6: Understanding Standard Fields

Lecture 7: Understanding Custom Fields

Lecture 8: Understanding Field Types

Lecture 9: Creating Text and URL Fields

Lecture 10: Setting Field Level Security on a Field

Lecture 11: Viewing Field Accessibility on a Field

Lecture 12: Setting History Tracking for Changes to Field Values

Lecture 13: Creating an Auto-Number Field

Lecture 14: Identifying Salesforce IDs via URLs and the Salesforce Workbench

Lecture 15: Creating a Basic Formula Field

Lecture 16: Creating a Checkbox Field

Lecture 17: Creating a Currency Field

Lecture 18: Enabling Multi-Currency in Your Org

Lecture 19: Keep Your Currency Exchange Rates Up to Date

Lecture 20: Creating Date Fields

Lecture 21: Creating an Email field

Lecture 22: Creating a Geolocation Field

Lecture 23: Creating a Custom Object and Number Fields Using the Schema Builder

Lecture 24: Creating a Percent Field

Lecture 25: Creating a Phone Field

Lecture 26: Creating a Picklist Field

Lecture 27: Creating a Multi-Select Picklist Field

Lecture 28: Creating a Dependent Picklist

Lecture 29: Creating a Lookup Relationship

Lecture 30: Creating an External Lookup Relationship

Lecture 31: Creating a Master-Detail Relationship

Lecture 32: Creating an Encrypted Field

Lecture 33: Roll Up Summary Fields

Lecture 34: Considerations When Changing a Field's Type

Lecture 35: Introducing and Installing the Data Loader

Lecture 36: Logging in to the Data Loader with a Security Token

Lecture 37: Data Loader Configuration

Lecture 38: Importing Data – Which Tool is Best?

Lecture 39: Mass Transfer of Records

Lecture 40: Helpful Practice Activity – Creating Unique ID / External ID

Lecture 41: Exporting Data from Salesforce

Lecture 42: Relationship Types and Implications on Record Access

Lecture 43: Relationship Types and Implications on User Interface

Lecture 44: Relationship Types and Implications on Reporting

Lecture 45: Mass Delete Records

Lecture 46: Introducing External Objects and External Data Sources

Lecture 47: Creating External Objects & Data Source with Salesforce Connect and Heroku

Lecture 48: Introducing the Schema Builder

Lecture 49: Practice Activity – Creating Custom & Junction Objects in the Schema Builder

Chapter 4: Security

Lecture 1: Security Introduction

Lecture 2: User Management Settings

Lecture 3: Introducing Profiles

Lecture 4: Creating Custom Profiles

Lecture 5: Introducing Roles

Lecture 6: Creating Roles and Assigning Users to Them

Lecture 7: Profiles vs. Roles

Lecture 8: Introducing Permission Sets

Lecture 9: Creating Permission Sets

Lecture 10: Organization Wide Defaults

Lecture 11: Sharing Settings and Granting Access Using Hierarchies

Lecture 12: Manually Sharing Records

Lecture 13: Create, Read, Update, Delete Operations – aka CRUD

Chapter 5: Business Logic and Process Automation

Lecture 1: Business Logic and Process Automation Introduction

Lecture 2: Introducing Record Types

Lecture 3: Helpful Practice Activity – Creating Account and Production Record Types

Lecture 4: Helpful Practice Activity – Create Contact Record Types

Lecture 5: Helpful Practice Activity – Create Opportunity Record Types

Lecture 6: Assigning Default Record Types to Profiles

Lecture 7: Creating Picklist Fields and Record Type Implications

Lecture 8: Creating Advanced Formula Fields

Lecture 9: Creating Cross Object Formula Fields

Lecture 10: Creating Validation Rules

Lecture 11: Introducing Workflow Rules

Lecture 12: Creating Workflow Rules