PDI Salesforce Certified Platform Developer (Plat-Dev-201) Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your Salesforce PDI Salesforce Certified Platform Developer (Plat-Dev-201) certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
How is a controller and extension specified for a custom object named "Notice" on a Visualforce page?
Refer to the following Apex code:
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Integer x = 0;
do {
x++;
} while (x < 1);
System.debug(x);
What is the value of x when it is written to the debug log?
Which code statement includes an Apex method named updateAccounts in the class AccountController for use in a Lightning web component?
In terms of the MVC paradigm, what are two advantages of implementing the view layer of a Salesforce application using Lightning Web Component-based development over Visualforce?
Choose 2 answers
How can a developer check the test coverage of autolaunched Flows before deploying them in a change set?
A developer is integrating with a legacy on-premise SQL database.
What should the developer use to ensure the data being integrated is matched to the right records in Salesforce?
A developer created a new after insert trigger on the Lead object that creates Task records for each Lead.
After deploying to production, an existing outside integration that inserts Lead records in batches to Salesforce is occasionally reporting total batch failures being caused by the Task insert statement. This causes the integration process in the outside system to stop, requiring a manual restart.
Which change should the developer make to allow the integration to continue when some records in a batch cause failures due to the Task
insert statement, so that manual restarts are not needed?
Universal Containers decides to use purely declarative development to build out a new Salesforce application.
Which two options can be used to build out the business logic layer for this application?
Choose 2 answers
When the code executes, a DML exception is thrown.
How should a developer modify the code to ensure exceptions are handled gracefully?
A developer completed modifications feature that is comprised of two elements:
* Apex trigger
* Trigger handler Apex class
What are two factors that the developer must take into account to properly deploy them to the production environment?
Choose 2 answers
Since Aura application events follow the traditional publish-subscribe model, which method is used to fire an event?
A developer needs to implement a custom SOAP Web Service that is used by an external Web Application. The developer chooses to include helper methods that are not used by the Web Application in the implementation of the Web Service Class.
Which code segment shows the correct declaration of the class and methods?
A developer creates a custom exception as shown below:
public class ParityException extends Exception { }
What are two ways the developer can fire the exception in Apex?
A developer creates a new Apex trigger with a helper class, and writes a test class that only exercises 95% coverage of the new Apex helper class.
Change Set deployment to production fails with the test coverage warning:
"Test coverage of selected Apex Trigger is 0%, at least 1% test coverage is required."
What should the developer do to successfully deploy the new Apex trigger and helper class?
Management asked for opportunities to be automatically created for accounts with annual revenue greater than $1, 000,000. A developer created the following trigger on the Account object to satisfy this requirement.
for (Account a : Trigger.new) {
if (a.AnnualRevenue > 1000000) {
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if (oppList.size() == 0) {
Opportunity oppty = new Opportunity(Name = a.Name, StageName = 'Prospecting', CloseDate = System.today().addDays(30));
insert oppty;
}
}
}
Users are able to update the account records via the UI and can see an opportunity created for high annual revenue accounts. However, when the administrator tries to upload a list of 179 accounts using Data Loader, it fails with system, Exception errors.
Which two actions should the developer take to fix the code segment shown above?
Choose 2. answers
A developer must implement a CheckPaymentProcessor class that provides check processing payment capabilities that adhere to what is defined for payments in the PaymentProcessor interface.
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public interface PaymentProcessor {
void pay(Decimal amount);
}
Which is the correct implementation to use the PaymentProcessor interface class?
A Next Best Action strategy uses an Enhance Element that invokes an Apex method to determine a discount level for a Contact, based on a number of factors.
What is the correct definition of the Apex method?
A lead developer creates an Apex interface called Laptop.
Consider the following code snippet:
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public class SilverLaptop {
// code implementation
}
How can a developer use the Laptop interface within the SilverLaptop class?
How many Accounts will be inserted by the following block of code?
Universal Containers is developing a new Lightning web component for their marketing department. They want to ensure that the component is fine-tuned and provides a seamless user experience.
What are some benefits of using the Lightning Component framework?