Salesforce / Platform Development / SF-PD1

Become a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I

Develop and deploy business logic and user interfaces with Apex, SOQL, Lightning, testing, debugging, and secure platform patterns.

Recommended foundation · not necessarily a formal prerequisite

Check your SF-PAB foundation

Use this checkpoint to identify gaps, or continue directly if you already have the skills. Confirm formal prerequisites on the current official credential page.

Try our SF-PAB test →Open its learning path →

Core learning

Learn one responsibility at a time

  1. 1.Developer fundamentals and multitenancy
  2. 2.Data modeling, SOQL, and transactions
  3. 3.Apex logic, triggers, and limits
  4. 4.Process automation and integration choices
  5. 5.Lightning Web Components and user interfaces
  6. 6.Testing, debugging, security, and deployment
Official Salesforce certification resources ↗

Hands-on consolidation

Build and verify it in a sandbox

Create a source-controlled Salesforce DX project with Apex service logic, a bulk-safe trigger, LWC interface, permission enforcement, callout mock, meaningful tests, and a validated deployment.

Ready when…

You can build secure, bulk-safe platform code, choose code only when appropriate, and prove behavior with isolated tests.

Practice and review

Find gaps with our SF-PD1 test

75 original questions; the first 7 are free. Use missed questions to return to the matching objective and repeat the practical task.

Try our SF-PD1 practice test →