Certification journey for Adobe Commerce Developer Expert

Intended audience:

• Developers
• Lead Developers
• Backend Developer
• Solution Architects
• Technical Leaders

Exam details:

• Level: Expert (1-3 years’ experience)
• Passing Score: 41/69
• Time: 138 mins
• Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
• Available languages: English
• Cost: $225 (global) / $150 (India)
• Exam ID: AD0-E716

Readiness self-assessment

Complete the online readiness questionnaire to see if your current experience matches the recommended minimum candidate qualification.

Exam objectives and scope

Section 1: Adobe Commerce Architecture and Customization Techniques (36%)

• Demonstrate how to effectively use cache in Adobe Commerce
• Build, use, and manipulate custom extension attributes
• Recommend solutions for how to apply theme custom updates to product/category pages
• Correctly apply observers, preferences, and plugins (effects of sort order)
• Demonstrate the ability to use the configuration layer in Adobe Commerce
• Demonstrate knowledge of how routes work in Adobe Commerce
• Demonstrate ability to customize pagebuilder
• Determine the effects and constraints of configuring multiple sites on a single instance
• Describe the capabilities and constraints of dependency injection
• Describe how to add and configure fields in store settings
• Explain the use cases for Git patches and the file level modifications in Composer
• Create new commands in CLI
• Demonstrate how to write an integration test
• Identify Adobe Commerce security feature (CSP, escaping, form keys, sanitization, reCAPTCHA, input validation)
• Explain how the CRON scheduling system works
• Demonstrate the ability to load and manipulate data
• Demonstrate the ability to use App emulation

Section 2: Working with Databases and EAV (10%)

• Manipulate EAV attributes and attribute sets programmatically
• Demonstrate the ability to extend the database schema
• Demonstrate the ability to import / export data from Adobe Commerce
• Describe how to use patches and recurring set ups to modify the database

Section 3: Developing with Admin (6%)

• Demonstrate the ability to update and create grids and forms
• Extend Grid actions
• Demonstrate the ability to create modifier classes
• Demonstrate the ability to restrict access to ACL

Section 4: Customizing the Catalog (6%)

• Apply changes to existing product types and create new ones
• Modify and extend existing Catalog entities
• Demonstrate the ability to manage Indexes and customize price output
• Explain how multi-source inventory impacts stock (program level)

Section 5: Customizing Sales Operations (6%)

• Demonstrate the ability to develop new payment methods or customize existing payment methods
• Demonstrate the ability to add and customize shipping methods
• Demonstrate the ability to customize sales operations
• Explain how to customize totals

Section 6: APIs and Services (4%)

• Demonstrate the ability to create new APIs or extend existing APIs
• Demonstrate the ability to use the queuing system

Section 7: Adobe Commerce Cloud architecture (16%)

• Demonstrate knowledge of Adobe Commerce architecture/environment workflow
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of cloud project files, permission, and structure
• Demonstrate the ability to setup multi domain based stores on Adobe Commerce Cloud (multi domain sites mix of dev work and support)
• Demonstrate a general knowledge of application services and how to manage them (YAML , PHP, MariaDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc)
• Identify how to access different types of logs
• Demonstrate the ability to deploy a project (Main steps of deployment)
• Define features provided by ECE tools
• Identify uses for ECE patches (Security breach)
• Describe how to Maintain and upgrade ECE tools
• Distinguish when to contact support *Yaml files and limitations (DIY vs Support tickets)
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of OOTB FASTLY features configuration and installation

Section 8: Setup/configuring Adobe Commerce Cloud (10%)

• Describe how to setup/configure Adobe Commerce Cloud
• Apply Basic Cloud troubleshooting knowledge (Hierarchy of web UI and variables, configurations precedence)
• Demonstrate understanding of cloud user management and onboarding UI
• Describe how to update cloud variables using UI
• Describe environment Management using UI
• Demonstrate understanding of branching using UI
• Identify Adobe commerce Cloud Plan capabilities

Section 9: Commerce Cloud CLI tool (managing part) (6%)

• Demonstrate understanding of updating cloud variables using CLI

• Demonstrate understanding of environment Management using CLI (CLI exclusive features :activate emails, rebase environments, snapshot, db dump, local environment setup)

• Demonstrate understanding of branching using CLI

• Demonstrate how to troubleshoot to cloud services? (My SQL, Redis, tunnel:info)

You are not required to complete training before taking the exam, and training alone will not provide you with the knowledge and skills required to pass the exam. A combination of training and successful, on-the-job experience are critical to providing you with the repository needed to pass the exam.

Here are some suggested resources to help you prepare:

Section 1: Adobe Commerce architecture and customization techniques

• Commerce for developers - Overview
• Commerce for developers - Development workflow
• Commerce for developers - Code base
• Commerce for developers - Exercises
• Magento 2 Development Essentials
• Adobe Commerce Cloud: Magento Commerce - Back-End Developer
• Adobe Commerce 2.4 Developer Guide
• Partial caching
• Page Caching
• Add extension attributes to entities
• Categories - Design settings
• Create a module
• Component development
• Commerce for developers - development basics
• Commerce for developers - Post install
• Commerce for developers - Routing
• Create a New Page
• Page Builder
• What is Page Builder
• Set up multiple websites or stores
• Multiple websites or stores
• Dependency injection example
• System.xml reference
• Commerce for developers - Installation
• Apply patches
• Add CLI Commands
• Integration testing
• Security
• Cron (scheduled tasks)
• Configure cron jobs
• Cron jobs
• Crons property
• Architectural layers overview
• Modules and areas

Section 2: Working with databases and EAV

• Create a product attribute
• EAV and extension attributes
• How to add a new product attribute
• Add a custom text field attribute
• Commerce for developers - Declarative schema
• Add a new table to a database
• Declarative Schema
• Data Transfer
• Custom import entity
• Importing and Exporting Inventory
• Develop data and schema patches

Section 3: Developing with admin

• Commerce for developers - Create an Admin Page
• Add an Admin grid
• Listing (grid) component
• Form component
• ActionsColumn component
• PHP modifiers
• Customize using a modifier class
• Create an access control list (ACL) rule

Section 4: Customizing the catalog

• Create a products
• Adding extension attributes to entities
• Indexing
• Indexer optimization
• Create a custom indexer
• Manage the indexers
• Index management
• Render prices on the frontend
• Introduction to Inventory Management

Section 5: Customizing sales operations

• Customize checkout
• Add a custom payment method to checkout
• Adding a new payment integration (payment method)
• Add custom shipping carrier
• Add custom shipping carrier validations
• Customize the view of a checkout step
• Sort order for checkout totals

Section 6: APIs and services

• Getting started with Adobe Commerce web APIs
• REST API Overview
• Using SOAP services
• GraphQL overview
• Message queues
• Bulk operations

Section 7: Adobe Commerce Cloud architecture

• Pro project workflow
• Cloud CLI
• Commerce on Cloud Infrastructure
• ECE-Tools Package

Section 8: Setup/configuring Adobe Commerce Cloud

• Manage user access
• Secure connections to remote environments
• Cloud infrastructure project
• Manage branches with the CLI

Section 9: Commerce Cloud CLI tool (managing part)

• Snapshots and backup management

• Manage disk space

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