salesforce certified app builder winter 18 release exam

Social Accounts, Contact and Leads Overviewĭo not underestimate this exam. Important topics with links (How convenient!): Registration fee: 100 USD Retake fee: 50 USD.Attempts to pass: 3 (Seriously? Pass it in the first attempt).Passing Score: 65% (13 right answers and I hope my math is correct here d-oh!).

Time allotted to complete the exam: 30 minutes.Number of questions: 20 (Don’t let this fool you).

Format: multiple-choice/multiple-select transition exam.

Familiarity with the Salesforce development environments and the options available to deploy applications and manage changes on the platform.

Familiarity with the social and mobile capabilities of the platform.

You know to design applications to support business processes and reporting requirements.

Awareness of Salesforce license types and the related considerations.

Familiarity with the declarative capabilities of the platform.

But you ARE expected to have the following experience:.

You are not expected to administer Sales Cloud or Service Cloud.

You are not expected to have programming experience (APEX, Visualforce, Lightning components using APEX or JS).

You should have passed the Developer certification.

Platform Developer I will become the replacement certification for Certified Developer in the Salesforce Consulting Partner Program and in the individual partner certification growth targets.

The goal is to move to the Salesforce Developer I certification by FY18.

The developer exam will still be recognized by SFDC.

The developer exam was discontinued starting on September 14, 2015.

The rest of this blog focuses on the transition exam and in case you are not eligible then its gonna be a little more harder as you need to take the complete exam. If you hold the erstwhile developer certification, then you are eligible to write a short transition exam to get the new App Builder cert.

In my opinion, Salesforce has tried to break out the declarative capabilities of the platform and utilize the App Builder cert to test our knowledge about it. Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I (I also hold this certification and more about it in another blog post)ģ. Salesforce Certified Platform App BuilderĢ. has introduced 3 new exams among others in the recent past. Once in a lifetime! and don’t forget about climate change! Those of you who hold the Salesforce Certified Developer certification actually hold a piece of history because this certification was made to ride heroically into the sunset on Sept 14 2015.

Salesforce certified app builder winter 18 release exam