3 · Delivery & career

7. Deployments, DevOps and getting hired

Ship changes safely and prepare for Salesforce roles.

10 min read · 3 MCQs

Moving changes

Change sets work for simple orgs. Teams use Salesforce CLI (sf), source control and DevOps Center or CI pipelines to deploy metadata between sandboxes and production.

sf project deploy start --source-dir force-app --target-org uat --test-level RunLocalTests

Career path

Common entry roles are Salesforce Administrator and Junior Developer. Popular certifications: Administrator, Platform App Builder and Platform Developer I. Build a portfolio on a free Developer Edition org and Trailhead.

Chapter quiz

3 questions · pass mark 75%

1. Which tool deploys metadata from the command line?
2. A good first certification for admins is…
3. Where can you practise for free?