Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II (SFCPDII) (Certification)

The Salesforce Platform Developer II 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 Platform Developer II candidate generally has 2-4 years of experience as a developer, including at least 1 year of design, implementation, and deployment experience on the Lightning Platform. The Salesforce Platform Developer II candidate has the experience, skills, and knowledge outlined below.

• Understands the principles and best practices of Salesforce data modeling, user experience design, code development, and testing, and can apply these principles in real-world development environments
• Is capable of defining appropriate solutions to meet specific business challenges/process requirements to extend/customize the platform by applying knowledge of declarative and programmatic features of the Lightning Platform
• Is competent in developing Apex code that will scale to large data sets and has a good understanding of platform behaviors, limits, and performance considerations
• Understands implications when handling larger volumes of data (approximately 300,000 to 480,000 records)
• Can build or modify custom user interfaces to display and interact with Salesforce data using Lightning web components and Aura components, advanced Visualforce, CSS, and JavaScript
• Is competent in tuning Visualforce pages and understands performance implications of the controller design
• Understands and applies best practices for general web and Salesforce-specific security concerns
• Can design and implement complex sharing models using declarative and programmatic methods
• Can design and implement a test plan that ensures sufficient quality (for example; code coverage, application behaviors, scalability, environment independence, security) across application components
• Can test Lightning web components using Jest
• Can deploy custom applications, has a broad understanding of the Salesforce development lifecycle, understands deployment tools, and knows when to apply each tool
• Understands and can implement Apex SOAP and REST web services, and how to call out from Apex using SOAP and REST
• Understands and uses asynchronous programming - queueable, batchable, schedulable, @future, etc.
• Understands and applies appropriate techniques for error and exception handling in various programmatic contexts
• Implements best practices for trigger development and design patterns, other business logic development, and re-use
• Knows how to surface Lightning web components and Aura components on a Lightning page, Visualforce page, and with Quick Actions