DEV-501 Test: Salesforce Certified Advanced Developer Exam

Course details

Dev 501 certificate in Salesforce will validate that how comfortable you are as a developer with Apex and Visualforce. In order to get Dev 501 Certification, Developer needs to go through 3 Steps :

• Pass Multi Choice Exam (69 Questions, 73% Passing)
• Complete Assignment if you pass Step 1 - (Assignment window opens 4 times in Year. You will be given new Salesforce developer org with credential to complete assignment. You will have period of nearly 1 month to complete this.)
• Essay writing - (Need to answer 3-4 questions regarding your design in assignment to validate that you have written code. If you are confident, you can give Essay before submitting Assignment also. This step also needs to complete in Proctored center like Step 1.)

After these steps, You will get final result in 4-5 weeks.

Below are the Topics to focus more (MUST) for preparation.

Order of Execution of Trigger
Which Trigger gets fired in Merge Operation ?
Read about Undelete Trigger.
How to Test Triggers ?
How to reduce ViewState ?
What is MVC ?
How to create Custom Component ?
How to Test Email Services ?
What is sequence of execution of Visualforce in GET Request ?
Sequence of execution of Visualforce in POST Request?
When to use Package, ChangeSet and Force .com Migration tool ?
How to use Visualforce Template ?
What is supported in <apex:attribute> tag ?
How to use Dynamic Apex, Dynamic SOQL and Dynamic SOSL ?
What is Script Limit, DML Limit, Sandbox limit and so on
How Exception class works?
There were many questions on System Log (Developer Console).
Very good understanding of Static variable and Global class.
How to create REST request and how to test it.
When to use Visualforce Template and what are drawbacks of it ?
How Visualforce properties (Getters and Setters) works ?
Considerations for Constructor ?
How to create Controller Extensions ?
Difference in System .AssertEquals, System .Assert ?
How to get 100% Test Coverage ?
Read about SOQL Clauses like FOR UPDATE, ALL ROWS .
File names of ANT Migration and there usage ?
How to delete something using Migration Tool ?
When to use Sandboxes and when to use Developer Account ?
How to add custom (Create Visualforce) button on List Views ?
Difference in <apex:Actionsupport>, <apex:ActionFunction> and <apex:ActionPoller> ?