the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Transition exam

Salesforce.com has introduced 3 new exams among others in the recent past. These exams are:
1. Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
2. Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
3. Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II

Salesforce has tried to break out the declarative capabilities of the platform and utilize the App Builder cert to test our knowledge about it.

If you hold the developer certification, then you are eligible to write a short transition exam to get the new App Builder cert.

Please Refer Below imp links:

http://www.salesforce.com/campaigns/success-services/developer-certification-in-progress.jsp

http://www.salesforce.com/campaigns/success-services/certified-force-developers.jsp

STUDY GUIDE :

Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder 

Transition Exam

Study Guide

Pre-Requisites and additional info:

1. You should have passed the Developer certification. 
2. You are not expected to have programming experience (APEX, Visualforce, Lightning components using APEX or JS). But great if you do.
3. But you ARE expected to have the following experience:
   • Familiarity with the declarative capabilities of the Force.com platform.
   • Awareness of Salesforce license types and the related considerations.
   • You know to design applications to support business processes and reporting requirements.
   • Familiarity with the social and mobile capabilities of the platform. Think Salesforce1.
   • Familiarity with the Salesforce development environments and the options available to deploy applications and manage changes on the Force.com platform.