How to prepare for Dev 501 Certification – Salesforce

This is first time i am going to write article on any Salesforce Certification. This time it is about “How to Pass Salesforce Dev 501 Certification”. I have already received many request on how to prepare for this certification.

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 :

  1. Pass Multi – Choice Exam
    • 69 Questions, 73% Passing
  2. Complete Assignment if you pass Step 1
  3. 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.

First, you have to go through below three Guides in very detail, I would suggest you should go for second round also before 2-3 days of exam.

  1. Apex developer Guide
  2. Visualforce Developer Guide
  3. Salesforce Migration Guide

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

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

And, there were many questions on other parts. I would strongly suggest to read all 3 PDF specified above.

Note : I will not reply to any comment regarding actual / sample questions. I would be more than happy to help and suggest on any topics specified above.

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17 responses to “How to prepare for Dev 501 Certification – Salesforce”

  1. Srinivas Avatar
    Srinivas

    Thanks Jitendra.You are the best.

    1. JitendraZaa Avatar
      JitendraZaa

      Thanks Srinivas 🙂

  2. Dinesh Singla Avatar
    Dinesh Singla

    Any tips or blog for dev 401?

    1. JitendraZaa Avatar
      JitendraZaa

      For Dev 401, I would suggest you to go through Study Guide and take Online Training by Salesforce.

  3. Balkishan Kachawa Avatar
    Balkishan Kachawa

    Thanks, I preparing for 501.Will they ask any question about salesforce editions? OR any tips from you.

  4. Prajakat Sasane Avatar
    Prajakat Sasane

    Thank jetendra ,

    but can u tell me some example on programming Assignment task given in DEV 501.

  5. Paresh Jena Avatar
    Paresh Jena

    Thanks Jitendra for the detailed explanation. It is really helpful.

  6. Vikram Reddy Avatar
    Vikram Reddy

    Thanks Jitendra. Provided Insight into 501, which I’m planning to take this year.

  7. Carolina Ruiz Medina Avatar

    Thanks Jitendra for the post, it helps a lot. Going to start studying the Multi choice exam.

    1. JitendraZaa Avatar
      JitendraZaa

      Best of luck carolina

  8. Sravya Avatar
    Sravya

    Hi Jitendra, thank you so much for such a nice article. I have a question, i just had 6 months of experience as a Salesforce admin and developer, did not do much coding, i did passed ADM 201 and DEV 401 exams. I am planning to give DEV 501, can you please tell me how much time it takes for DEV 501 prepation? how many months i need to spend time on this exam? without any developer experience. Your response would be highly appreciated.

  9. Rolando Nunez Avatar
    Rolando Nunez

    Thanks G2 : ) for this very informative article. I hope I can also be Dev501-certified in the future

  10. Complete Dump Avatar
    Complete Dump

    Those who want the latest updated dumps for this exam can contact me at completedump@gmail.com

  11. Awinash Kumar Sharma Avatar
    Awinash Kumar Sharma

    point no-18, Very good understanding of Static and Global class.

    did you mean to say “Static & Global variable” ? Apex doesn’t have Static Class.

    Ref – https://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_classes_static.htm

    1. Jitendra Zaa Avatar

      Thanks Awinash for catch up.. Corrected it.

  12. Payal Bhawnani Avatar
    Payal Bhawnani

    Great Work Jitendra 🙂

  13. meena kumari Avatar
    meena kumari

    nice info

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