On August 12 th, 2015 Salesforce sent out another email stating the new certification test was now available, and with that, some additional information on the Developer paths. Salesforce would be offering a “transition exam” to people who currently held the Developer certification. In that email, to help with the confusion, Salesforce published an App Builder Certification FAQ.

Just as the Salesforce Consultant certification morphed into two new certifications back in 2011 (Sales Could Consultant and Service Cloud Consultant), the Developer track was being split into a declarative “button click” App Builder certification and a true programmatic “coder” track with two new certifications supporting that path: Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I and Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II. On June 18 th, 2015 Salesforce sent an email to existing Salesforce Certified Developers letting them know that a beta program was being put together for a new certification – Salesforce Certified App Builder.

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