Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect Practice Test

What this exam covers

Prepare for the Salesforce Certified Platform Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect exam with a course built around the official exam blueprint. This certification validates the ability to design governance frameworks, manage development and deployment lifecycles on the Lightning Platform, and communicate DevOps design trade-offs to both business and technical stakeholders.

The exam covers the following weighted domains:

• Application Lifecycle Management (8%) — assessing development methodologies and governance strategies
• Planning (13%) — ALM maturity, risk mitigation, governance frameworks, release readiness
• System Design (15%) — agile tooling, org strategy, sandbox strategy, deployment components
• Building (14%) — source control branching/versioning, test data strategy, org-based vs. package-based development, code quality practices
• Deploying (14%) — Metadata and Tooling API capabilities, pre/post-deployment steps, technical reference data
• Testing (13%) — testing methodology, test execution and coverage, unified test data strategy
• Releasing (13%) — managed/unmanaged/unlocked packages, sandbox-to-release mapping, release management strategy
• Operating (10%) — production change implications, multi-org release artifact management

Recommended background includes 2–3 years of Salesforce Platform experience, 1–2 years working with Salesforce DevOps, governance committees, and application lifecycle management, plus familiarity with agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies. This course is best suited for technical leads, delivery leads, release managers, environment managers, ops managers, test managers, and technical architects looking to validate their expertise in this domain.