4-week PD1 study plan

One exam section per week, in course order. About one lesson a day, five or six days a week.

Week 1

Developer Fundamentals (27%)

  1. DF1: Multitenancy and governor limits
  2. DF2: MVC and the Lightning Component Framework
  3. DF3: Declarative or code: formulas, roll-ups and Apex
  4. DF4: Relationships: lookup, master-detail and many-to-many
  5. DF5: Accessing related data: relationship queries and external IDs
  6. DF6: Agentforce for Developers: uses and limits

Then: the section check, the flashcards and the 30-question practice quiz. Read every explanation, including the ones you got right.

Week 2

Process Automation and Logic (28%)

  1. PA1: Declarative automation and Apex together
  2. PA2: Variables, constants, methods, modifiers and interfaces
  3. PA3: Control flow: if-else, switch and loops
  4. PA4: SOQL, SOSL and DML in Apex: what they return
  5. PA5: Triggers, the save order and recursion
  6. PA6: Exception handling and custom exceptions

Then: the section check, the flashcards and the 30-question practice quiz. Read every explanation, including the ones you got right.

Week 3

User Interface (25%)

  1. UI1: Secure data access in Apex: sharing, user mode and stripInaccessible
  2. UI2: Preventing SOQL injection and XSS
  3. UI3: Building Lightning web components: files, decorators and targets
  4. UI4: LWC events and component communication
  5. UI5: Apex for components, flows and agents

Then: the section check, the flashcards and the 30-question practice quiz. Read every explanation, including the ones you got right.

Week 4

Testing, Debugging, and Deployment (20%)

  1. TD1: Writing Apex tests: @IsTest, assertions and code coverage
  2. TD2: Test data: setup methods, loadData and SeeAllData
  3. TD3: Developer tools, debug logs and monitoring
  4. TD4: Environments and deployment

Then: the section check, the flashcards and the 30-question practice quiz. Read every explanation, including the ones you got right.

Every day

  • Answer each lesson’s 10 practice questions before opening the explanations.
  • Do the lesson’s hands-on task in your free Developer Edition org.
  • Spend a few minutes on that section’s flashcards.

Before exam day

Retake the practice quiz for any section where you missed a lot, and reread those lessons. The governor limits cheat sheet is a quick final review.

Independent study material. Created by Nick Frates. Not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Salesforce, Inc. All questions are original and are not actual exam questions. Salesforce, Agentforce, Trailhead and other marks are trademarks of Salesforce, Inc., used only to identify the exam this material helps you study for.