Certification journey for Adobe Commerce Front-End Developer Expert

Intended audience:

• Developers
• Lead Developers
• Front-end Developers

Exam details:

• Level: Expert (1-3 years’ experience)
• Passing Score: 33/50
• Time: 100 mins
• Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access) or test center proctored
• Available languages: English
• Cost: $225 (global) / $150 (India)
• Exam ID: AD0-E720

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: Theme management (Theme hierarchy, image configuration, translations) (16%)

• Describe Adobe Commerce theme folder structure and how it relates to folder based themes
• Demonstrate the ability to create a new theme (Inheritance/Fallbacks, design exceptions, theme properties)
• Demonstrate ability to extend existing themes
• Demonstrate ability to customize transactional emails
• Demonstrate ability to apply translations
• Given a set of use cases, identify when to place files in app/code or app/design

Section 2: Layout XML & templates (phtml templates) (22%)

• Demonstrate the ability to utilize layout XML instructions
• Demonstrate the ability to create new page layouts
• Understand the difference between extending/merging and overriding XML
• Demonstrate how to pass and utilize arguments to templates
• Demonstrate ability to create and customize templates
• Apply template security (escaping output)

Section 3: Styles (18%)

• Identify the purpose of styles-m.less, styles-l.less, print.less
• Describe the difference between specific partial files (_extends.less,_extend.less,_theme.less,_widgets.less,_module.less,)
• Demonstrate the ability to override or extend Magento LESS
• Explain the core concepts of LESS
• Demonstrate the ability to style emails
• Explain the hierarchy of styles ( lib, modules, themes)
• Demonstrate the ability to implement and customize LESS library components
• Identify the differences between client-side vs server-side compilation and how it works

Section 4: JavaScript (mage widgets, mage library, customer data module, Knockout templates) (22%)

• Demonstrate the ability to initialize and call JavaScript components
• Distinguish use cases for different JavaScript components
• Demonstrate the usage of RequireJS
• Demonstrate the ability to implement different types of mixins
• Describe how to add a translation in JS
• Describe interactions between UI components
• Demonstrate the usage of Knockout JS
• Demonstrate the usage of jQuery widgets
• Demonstrate the usage of JS components using Layout XML

Section 5: Admin Configuration and Page Builder (12%)

• Demonstrate the ability to customize Page Builder content
• Describe front-end optimization
• Customize transactional emails
• Demonstrate the usage of admin development tools

Section 6: Tools (CLI and Grunt) (10%)

• Demonstrate the usage of basic bin/Magento commands

• Describe the usage of Composer commands (install, update, require, remove)

• Differentiate the appropriate use case for deploy modes

• Define Grunt setup and usage

• Describe additional tools that cloud provides (Fastly, downloading database, content deployment, branching using UI)

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: Theme management (Theme hierarchy, image configuration, translations)

• Themes
• Templates
• Add custom variables
• Translations

Section 2: Layout XML & templates (phtml templates)

• Layouts
• Common customization tasks
• Component development
• Security

Section 3: Styles

• Responsive web design
• Customize theme styles
• Coding standards
• Cascading style sheets (CSS)

Section 4: JavaScript (mage widgets, mage library, customer data module, Knockout templates)

• JavaScript
• Introduction to UI components
• Customize checkout
• Observable Arrays

Section 5: Admin configuration and PageBuilder

• Pages
• What is Page Builder?
• JavaScript bundling
• Google reCAPTCHA

Section 6: Tools (CLI and Grunt)

• Configuration guide

• On-premises installation overview

• Build variables

• Commerce on Cloud Infrastructure

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About the certification exam

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