Lesson 2: Salesforce APIs, Data Access, Limits, and External Services
Lesson Overview
This lesson develops practical skills in salesforce apis, data access, limits, and external services for Salesforce Platform Integration in Lightning (DEX502).
Topics Covered
REST, SOAP, Composite, Bulk, Tooling, Metadata, UI, and GraphQL API concepts
SOQL, query, search, sObjects, relationships, pagination, and large-data movement
Inbound Apex REST and SOAP, callouts, Continuations concepts, and mock testing
External Services, OpenAPI, Flow integration, external objects, and Salesforce Connect
API limits, concurrency, payload size, timeouts, batching, and performance
API testing, contract validation, and diagnostics
Practical Activity
Configure or analyze a scenario involving rest, soap, composite, bulk, tooling, metadata, ui, and graphql api concepts.
Build and validate an exercise covering soql, query, search, sobjects, relationships, pagination, and large-data movement and inbound apex rest and soap, callouts, continuations concepts, and mock testing.
Use tests, logs, reports, or documentation to verify api testing, contract validation, and diagnostics.
Key Takeaways
Explain rest, soap, composite, bulk, tooling, metadata, ui, and graphql api concepts in the context of Salesforce Platform Integration in Lightning (DEX502).
Apply practical methods for soql, query, search, sobjects, relationships, pagination, and large-data movement and inbound apex rest and soap, callouts, continuations concepts, and mock testing.
Test, document, and troubleshoot api testing, contract validation, and diagnostics.
