Certification journey for Adobe Commerce Front-end Developer Professional

Intended audience:

• Developer
• Front-end Developers
• Full Stack Developers
• PWA Developers

Exam details:

• Level: Professional (0-12 months’ experience)
• Passing Score: 31/50
• Time: 100 mins
• Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
• Available languages: English
• Cost: $125 (global) / $95 (India)
• Exam ID: AD0-E719

Exam objectives and scope

Section 1: Theme management (Theme hierarchy, image configuration, translations) (14%)

• Describe Adobe Commerce theme folder structure
• Demonstrate ability to create new or extend existing themes
• Demonstrate ability to add custom translation phrases

Section 2: Layout XML & templates (28%)

• Demonstrate the ability to work with basic layout XML instructions
• Demonstrate the ability to use existing page layouts
• Describe the steps for extending and overriding XML
• Demonstrate ability to create and customize templates
• Describe template security (escaping output)

Section 3: Styles (24%)

• Describe 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)
• Given a scenario, demonstrate the ability to override or extend Magento LESS
• Describe the basic concepts of LESS
• Explain the hierarchy of styles ( lib, modules, themes)
• Explain client-side and server-side compilation

Section 4: JavaScript (16%)

• Demonstrate the basic usage of content management
• Describe steps to apply/schedule a theme to a specific scope (website, store, store-view)
• Describe steps to apply design changes to categories, products, and CMS pages using admin configuration
• Describe steps to customize transactional emails

Section 5: Admin configuration and pagebuilder (12%)

• Demonstrate the basic usage of content management
• Describe steps to apply/schedule a theme to a specific scope (website, store, store-view)
• Describe steps to apply design changes to categories, products and CMS pages using admin configuration
• Describe steps to customize transactional emails

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

• Describe 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

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:

Sample questions

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Section 1: Theme management (Theme hierarchy, image configuration, translations)

• Themes
• Command line tool
• Translations

Section 2: Layout XML & templates

• Layout
• Themes
• Templates
• Introduction

Section 3: Styles

• Variables
• Responsive web design
• Cascading style sheets (CSS)
• Quickstart
• Frontend Developer Guide
• Themes
• What is Page Builder?

Section 4: JavaScript

• JavaScript
• Translations
• Introduction to UI components
• Introduction to JavaScript
• jQuery widgets

Section 5: Admin configuration and pagebuilder

• Configuration Reference Guide
• Introduction to Page Builder
• Walkthrough Part 1: Simple Page
• Themes
• Categories overview
• Design
• Templates

Section 6: Tools (CLI and Grunt)

• Command-line configuration

• Overview of store options and configuration management

• Overview of initialization and bootstrap

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Exam number: AD0-E719

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