Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Salesforce – Live Training
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Who can enroll for this course:
Module 1 — FDE & SALESFORCE FOUNDATION
Day 1: Introduction to FDE & Forward-Deployed Engineering Mindset
- FDE role
- Customer-centric engineering
- Ambiguity
- Problem ownership
- FDE vs developer/consultant/architect
- Salesforce-only scope
Hands-on: Run a discovery interview in pairs and write 5–7 discovery questions before recommending a Salesforce feature.
Student Outcome: Explain FDE and distinguish discovery from product selection.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 2: FDE Lifecycle: Discover ® Design ® Build ® Deploy ® Measure
- Discovery
- Requirements
- Acceptance criteria
- Architecture
- PoC
- Build
- Test
- Deployment
- Observability and iteration
Hands-on: Create a one-page FDE solution brief with problem, users, current state, target state and KPIs.
Student Outcome: Turn a vague request into an actionable FDE engagement.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 3: Salesforce Platform & Enterprise Architecture Overview
- Salesforce org
- Metadata
- Lightning
- App Builder
- CRM
- Automation
- Data
- AI and experience
- Layers
Hands-on: Explore a Salesforce org and create a simple architecture diagram.
Student Outcome: Understand where major Salesforce capabilities fit.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 4: Salesforce Data Model & Relationship Architecture
- Objects
- Fields
- Records
- Lookup
- Master-detail
- Junction objects
- Record types
- Formulas
- Roll-ups
- External IDs and data quality
Hands-on: Create/inspect a data model and build the required relationships.
Student Outcome: Design a Salesforce data model from requirements.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 5: Salesforce Security & Access Architecture
- OWD
- Roles
- Sharing rules
- Profiles
- Permission sets
- Permission set groups
- Object permissions
- FLS and record access
Hands-on: Configure a small security model and test access with different users/permission sets.
Student Outcome: Include security in solution design.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Module 2 — SALESFORCE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION
Day 6: Salesforce Automation: Flow & Business Process Automation
- Record-triggered
- Screen
- Scheduled and autolaunched
- Flow: decisions, records, subflows and fault handling
Hands-on: Build a record-triggered Flow and test normal and failure paths.
Student Outcome: Select and build appropriate Flow automation.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 7: Apex & When Custom Development Is Required
- Apex classes
- Methods
- Triggers
- SOQL
- DML
- Governor limits
- Invocable Apex and Apex with Flow
Hands-on: Build/inspect a small invocable Apex action and invoke it from Flow.
Student Outcome: Know when Apex is justified.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 8: Salesforce APIs & Platform Capabilities
- REST API concepts
- Salesforce APIs
- Authentication concepts
- Named Credentials
- Apex
- Callouts and platform capabilities
Hands-on: Use a Salesforce API/Workbench or available Salesforce-native API scenario to retrieve/update records.
Student Outcome: Understand Salesforce API fundamentals.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 9: Salesforce Events, Platform Events & Change Data Capture
- Event-driven thinking
- Platform Events
- CDC
- Publish/subscribe and asynchronous processing
Hands-on: Create/inspect a Platform Event flow and demonstrate an event-triggered Salesforce process.
Student Outcome: Understand event-driven architecture.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 10: Salesforce Architecture & Solution Design Fundamentals
- Scalability
- Maintainability
- Modularity
- Performance
- Security
- Limits and choosing
- Flow vs Apex vs data/AI
Hands-on: Produce a high-level architecture and defend each component choice.
Student Outcome: Explain why a solution is designed that way.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Module 3 — DATA 360
Day 11: Data 360 Fundamentals & Architecture
- Data 360 purpose
- Unified data foundation
- Ingestion
- Harmonization
- Identity
- Insights,
- Segmentation and activation
Hands-on: Explore Data 360 and identify which requirements genuinely need unified data.
Student Outcome: Understand Data 360’s role and appropriate use.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 12: Data 360 Data Ingestion, Data Streams & Data Sources
- Data sources
- Streams
- Ingestion
- Source mapping
- Refresh and data quality
Hands-on: Create/inspect a Data 360 data stream or supported source configuration.
Student Outcome: Understand how data enters Data 360.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 13: Data Model Objects, Mapping & Transformations
- Data Model Objects
- Mapping
- Transformations
- Relationships
- Semantic alignment and preparation
Hands-on: Map source data to a target Data 360 model and perform a simple transformation.
Student Outcome: Turn source information into usable unified data.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 14: Identity Resolution & Unified Customer Profiles
- Matching rules
- Reconciliation rules
- Identity resolution
- Unified individuals and profile
- Construction
Hands-on: Configure/simulate identity resolution and inspect a unified profile.
Student Outcome: Understand trusted unified customer views.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 15: Calculated Insights, Segmentation, Activation & Data 360 Hands-on
- Calculated Insights
- Metrics
- Segments
- Activation and business use of unified data
Hands-on: Build a calculated insight/segment where supported and demonstrate activation/downstream use.
Student Outcome: Turn unified data into an actionable outcome.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Module 4 — AI & AGENTFORCE
Day 16: AI Fundamentals for Salesforce FDEs
- AI vs generative AI
- LLMs
- Context
- Hallucination
- Grounding
- RAG
- Evaluation and human oversight
Hands-on: Compare deterministic Flow output with an AI-generated response and identify risks.
Student Outcome: Understand AI vs deterministic automation.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 17: Generative AI, LLMs, Prompting & Grounding
- Prompt structure
- Instructions
- Context
- Grounding
- Output constraints
- Examples and hallucination reduction
Hands-on: Write, test and refine prompts against normal, ambiguous and unsupported questions.
Student Outcome: Create clearer AI instructions and explain grounding.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 18: Agentforce Fundamentals & Agentic Architecture
- Agent concepts
- Agentforce
- Agent vs chatbot vs automation
- Topics
- Instructions
- Reasoning
- Actions
- Context and guardrails
Hands-on: Create/configure a basic Agentforce agent, define a topic and test conversations.
Student Outcome: Understand Agentforce architecture.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 19: Agentforce Topics, Instructions & Agent Configuration
- Topic design
- Scope
- Instructions
- Boundaries
- Variables/context
- Behavior and escalation
Hands-on: Create/refine topics and instructions; test in-scope and out-of-scope questions.
Student Outcome: Control agent behavior through configuration.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 20: Agentforce Actions: Flow, Apex & Salesforce Capabilities
- Actions
- Flow actions
- Apex actions
- Inputs/outputs
- Permissions and action design
Hands-on: Create an Agentforce action backed by Flow or Apex and invoke it in conversation.
Student Outcome: Connect agent intent to Salesforce business action.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Module 5 — ADVANCED AGENTFORCE & FDE ENGINEERING
Day 21: Agentforce + Data 360: Grounded AI & Customer Context
- Unified customer context
- Data 360 grounding
- Profiles
- Insights and context patterns
Hands-on: Connect appropriate Data 360 context to an agent scenario and test customer-specific responses.
Student Outcome: Understand how Data 360 strengthens agent context.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 22: Salesforce Knowledge, Grounding & AI Context
- Knowledge articles
- Data categories
- Search
- Trusted content
- Grounding and customer-specific vs general knowledge
Hands-on: Create/inspect Knowledge content and test an agent against policy and customer-specific questions.
Student Outcome: Distinguish Knowledge grounding from record context.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 23: Prompt Engineering, Guardrails & Responsible AI
- Prompt refinement
- Boundaries
- Safe responses
- Sensitive data
- Refusal behavior
- Escalation and guardrails
Hands-on: Create adversarial/negative prompts and improve agent instructions and guardrails.
Student Outcome: Design safer, more reliable agent behavior.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 24: Agent Testing, Evaluation & Failure Handling
- Test plans
- Functional/AI evaluation
- Negative testing
- Permissions
- Action failures
- Fallback and escalation
Hands-on: Build a test matrix; run positive/negative scenarios; document failures and fixes.
Student Outcome: Understand production-readiness testing.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 25: Agentic Architecture: Single vs Specialized/Multi-Agent
- Single-agent design
- Specialized agents
- Orchestration
- Delegation
- Boundaries
- Modularity and maintainability
Hands-on: Create an architecture decision record and prototype the selected approach.
Student Outcome: Justify agent decomposition.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Module 6 — FDE SOLUTION DELIVERY & CAPSTONE
Day 26: Salesforce Integration & Event-Driven Architecture
- Salesforce-native APIs
- Events
- Flow/Apex integration
- Synchronous vs asynchronous concepts
- Transaction boundaries
Hands-on: Build/inspect a Salesforce-native event/API pattern and document the flow.
Student Outcome: Choose a suitable Salesforce-native integration pattern.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 27: Deployment, DevOps, Observability & Production Readiness
- Sandbox strategy
- Metadata
- Deployment concepts
- Salesforce CLI awareness
- Version control
- Monitoring
- Logs
- KPIs and readiness
Hands-on: Create a production-readiness checklist and deployment plan; inspect available logs/metrics.
Student Outcome: Understand pre- and post-production responsibilities.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 28: FDE Solution Design: Business Problem ® Salesforce Architecture
- Discovery
- Requirements
- Architecture
- Component selection
- Security
- Data
- AI
- Automation
- Testing and KPIs
Hands-on: Complete an FDE solution-design workshop and present the architecture in 5–7 minutes.
Student Outcome: Demonstrate independent FDE decision-making.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 29: FDE Capstone: Design & Build an End-to-End Salesforce Solution
- Capstone planning
- Build execution
- Data setup
- Flow/Agentforce
- Data 360 where justified
- Testing and documentation
Hands-on: Build a working PoC in the Salesforce org and prepare an architecture/demo presentation.
Student Outcome: Demonstrate an end-to-end Salesforce FDE PoC.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Day 30: Capstone Presentation, Architecture Review & FDE Assessment
- Solution demo
- Architecture defense
- Technical Q&A
- Failure scenarios
- KPI discussion and assessment
Hands-on: Live demo + architecture review + Q&A; + individual reflection/assessment.
Student Outcome: Explain and defend engineering decisions.
For Reference: Relevant Salesforce Trailhead modules and learning resources will be shared with participants after the session.
Course Features
- Lectures 30
- Quiz 0
- Duration 30 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
- 6 Sections
- 30 Lessons
- 30 Hours
- Module 1 — FDE & SALESFORCE FOUNDATION5
- 1.1Day 1: Introduction to FDE & Forward-Deployed Engineering Mindset
- 1.2Day 2: FDE Lifecycle: Discover ® Design ® Build ® Deploy ® Measure
- 1.3Day 3: Salesforce Platform & Enterprise Architecture Overview
- 1.4Day 4: Salesforce Data Model & Relationship Architecture
- 1.5Day 5: Salesforce Security & Access Architecture
- Module 2 — SALESFORCE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION5
- Module 3 — DATA 3605
- 3.1Day 11: Data 360 Fundamentals & Architecture
- 3.2Day 12: Data 360 Data Ingestion, Data Streams & Data Sources
- 3.3Day 13: Data Model Objects, Mapping & Transformations
- 3.4Day 14: Identity Resolution & Unified Customer Profiles
- 3.5Day 15: Calculated Insights, Segmentation, Activation & Data 360 Hands-on
- Module 4 — AI & AGENTFORCE5
- Module 5 — ADVANCED AGENTFORCE & FDE ENGINEERING5
- Module 6 — FDE SOLUTION DELIVERY & CAPSTONE5
- 6.1Day 26: Salesforce Integration & Event-Driven Architecture
- 6.2Day 27: Deployment, DevOps, Observability & Production Readiness
- 6.3Day 28: FDE Solution Design: Business Problem ® Salesforce Architecture
- 6.4Day 29: FDE Capstone: Design & Build an End-to-End Salesforce Solution
- 6.5Day 30: Capstone Presentation, Architecture Review & FDE Assessment






