Certification journey for Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner Expert

Intended audience:

• Solution consultant
• Consumer experience professionals
• Product owners of solution being designed and implemented
• Business analysts
• Solution architects
• Individuals in partner organizations and freelancers who perform an analyst job role for AEM solutions
• Marketing specialists who know the features and capabilities needed to engage developers to define a solution for business needs
• Customers who use the product (i.e., Power Users)

Exam details:

Level: Expert (1-3 years’ experience)
Passing Score: 32/50
Time: 100 mins
Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access) or test center proctored
Available languages: English & Japanese
Cost: $225 (global) / $150 (India)
Exam ID: AD0-E121

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: Education (22%)

• List relevant AEM features and capabilities
• Recommend how to leverage AEM features to meet business needs
• Apply procedural concepts necessary to conduct training for content editors

Section 2: Architecture (24%)

• Recommend an Information Architecture to leverage AEM Standard Features to meet business needs using on-prem or Adobe hosted (Cloud) environment
• Describe how AEM integrates with third-party services
• Determine how to define roles and permissions
• Describe caching approaches

Section 3: Business Analysis (38%)

• Map standard modules of AEM to different business problems for the customer
• Apply content management concepts for AEM modules
• Identify typical project stakeholders
• Apply procedural concepts necessary to support collaboration of all parties involved
• Determine how to meet the core business goals while remaining within budget and/or scope
• Determine how questions from developers should be answered with respect to the business goals

Section 4: Setup and Implementation (16%)

• Determine how to configure and use content components to show best practices of AEM

• Verify the correct implementation of features, and locate and describe occurring errors

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: Education

• AEM 6.5 Developing User Guide
• Learn about AEM 6.5 capabilities
• AEM Sites videos and tutorials
• Launches
• First steps for authors
• Content editing best practices
• Creating and organizing pages
• Concept of authoring and publishing

Section 2: Architecture

• An Introduction to Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service
• Learn About AEM 6.5 Capabilities
• Adobe Experience Manager documentation
• Integrating with third-party services
• Solutions integration
• Experience Cloud integrations overview
• Managing user roles and permissions
• Roles and permissions
• Users, roles, and permissions
• Manage users, groups, and user roles
• Caching secured content
• Chapter 1 - Dispatcher concepts, patterns and antipatterns
• Chapter 2 – Infrastructure
• Chapter 3 - Advanced caching topics

Section 3: Business analysis

• Develop global websites in AEM
• AEM core concepts
• Components overview
• Content Architecture
• Managing Projects - Best Practices Checklist
• Considerations as Projects are Scoped
• Delivery and planning approach
• User Experience Prototyping
• Managing legal contracts
• Roles and Project Phases
• Adobe Experience Manager and Creative Cloud integration best practices
• Managing Projects - Best Practices Checklist
• Resources
• The Checklist - Further Reference

Section 4: Setup and implementation

• AEM 6.4 Developing User Guide

• AEM Development - Guidelines and Best Practices

• Components Overview

• Component Guidelines

• Components

• Localization Features of the Core Components

• Search Feature

Take a practice test

We recommend taking the free practice test before you start. You’ll have unrestricted access to all available practice tests for Adobe’s expert-level exams.

Our practice tests are all developed from the same blueprint as the live exams. The practice test will help you understand the topics covered in the live exam.

Please remember that passing a practice test does not guarantee you will pass the certification exam.

Go to the Adobe Certification Exam Prep Portal now to take a practice test.

About the certification exam

Adobe uses Examity to administer proctored exams online. In the Examity portal, you can:

• Schedule, reschedule or cancel your exam. Please note that canceling and rescheduling must be initiated prior to 48 hours before the scheduled exam appointment. Candidates must modify this appointment themselves.

• Pay for your exam. Pay for your certification exam either by voucher or credit card in the Examity portal. To purchase an exam voucher go to: Adobe Certification Voucher System. You can apply the voucher code when you schedule your exam. If you have a discount, it will apply at checkout.

• Take your exam.

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Schedule or take exam AD0-E121-J (Japanese)

Japanese instructions for scheduling