As part of my goals this year is to get the Technical Architect certification. I recently took the Salesforce Platform Developer II Transition Exam and I can say that it was fairly straightforward if you know your stuff. Having recently done the Platform Developer I transition exam last December then booked Platform Developer II exam for January. Because procrastinating is a bitch, the typical me waited till the last few days before getting serious studying.

Anyway I passed the exam. There are 35 questions, you are given 1 hour to complete. Get 63% correct and you will pass.

Here are some topics to pay attention to for your takeaway

1. Read up on the Messaging class and it’s method
2. Implementing Continuation and when best to use it
3. Your SOQL and SOSL queries
4. Know your objects and data types. What are types of compound fields and how to use them in queries
5. Testing REST and SOAP
6. Http callouts and named credentials
7. Advanced Currency Management
8. When to use declarative vs programmatic features
9. @invocablemethod and @invocablevariable annotations
10. Lightning components
11. Testing best practices
12. Developer Console
13. Apex Charts
14. Developer Console
15. Visualforce best practices