Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Handbook

Acknowledgments

When I first started writing the Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401), Packt Publishing in 2012, the goal was clear—how can you make the Salesforce development easy, accessible, and simple. You don't realize how daunting a task is, until you actually start it. But in the infamous words of Brian Tracy, you eat a large frog one bite at a time. And so the little bites started and the book finally released almost 4 years ago. When the team from Packt Publishing asked me to write a revised edition of the book, we all thought it would be easy.

With Salesforce, it hardly is. The pioneers of cloud computing are known for one thing—they change fast and for better. The exam had changed, the syllabus was different, and there ...