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Renew your Adobe Experience Manager certification
Your Adobe certification is valid for two years. If you are nearing this two-year mark, it’s time to renew your certification to keep it active.
First, select the appropriate level on the tab below (Professional, Expert, or Master). Then carefully review what you’ll need to do to renew your certification.
Be sure that you provide ample time to complete all the requirements before your certification expires.
It’s important to note that if your certification expires, you’ll have to retake the certification exam, which is NOT free of charge.
Log in first: The following links will function only after a successful login to the Adobe Credential Management System.
To share a link: If you would like to share the link to a renewal exam or assessment with a colleague, please link to the overall exam renewal page, not the URL of the exam itself, to avoid login issues.
Adobe Experience Manager Business Practitioner Professional
You should have the following active certification:
- Adobe Experience Manager Business Practitioner Professional
Instructions for renewing your certification:
- Step 1: Successfully log in to Adobe Credential Management System, then return to this page
- Step 2: Review the exam objectives and resources
- Step 3: Take and pass the exam
Get ready
Exam details:
- Level: Professional (0-12 months’ experience)
- Passing Score: 26/34
- Time: 68 minutes
- Delivery: On-demand / non-proctored
- Available languages: English
- Cost: FREE
- Exam ID: AD5-E843 Adobe Experience Manager Business Practitioner Professional
Scope and objectives:
Section 1: Education 23%
- Identify AEM features and capabilities
- Describe AEM features that meet business needs
- Describe procedural concepts necessary to conduct training for content editors
Section 2: Architecture 23%
- Identify information architecture appropriate to meet business needs using either on-prem or Adobe hosted (Cloud) environment
- Describe how AEM connects with third-party services
- Identify where to define roles and permissions
- Given a scenario, define available caching approaches
Section 3: Business Analysis 42%
- Given a scenario, identify standard modules of AEM that address customer business problems
- Identify content management concepts for AEM modules
- Identify typical project stakeholders
- Identify realistic collaboration scenarios between involved teams
- Given a scenario, describe a correct approach to meet business goals while remaining within budget and/or scope
- Identify ways to connect business goals with the development team
Section 4: Set-up and Implementation 12%
- Identify best AEM practices to use content components
- Given a scenario, identify the correct implementation of a feature
Get prepped
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
- Authoring Content Fragments
- About Adobe Experience Manager Assets as a DAM solution
- Formats supported in Adobe Experience Manager Assets
- Overview
- Introduction to AEM Forms
- Tagging pages
Section 2
- Configuring access to AEM as a Cloud Service
- AEM users, groups and permissions
- Sitemaps
- Adobe Experience Manager and Creative Cloud integration best practices
- AEM-CIF core components and Adobe Experience Platform integration
- User Administration and Security
- Admin Console overview
- AEM Publish
Section 3
- Introduction to AEM Screens
- Empower Your Digital Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service
- Introduction to Adobe Experience Manager as a Headless CMS
- Manage product, help and support content from creation to delivery.
- Overview of Experience Manager Assets Brand Portal
- Project Roles and Responsibilities
- Adding Page Annotations
- Quick Start Guide to Authoring Pages
- Using Connected Assets with AEM Assets
- Planning
- Defining your Test Cases
Section 4
Renew your certification
Ensure that you have followed step 1 above, and successfully logged in to Adobe Credential Management System first. Then, to renew your certification, click on the button below.
This exam is free, open book, and un-proctored. You may take the exam up to three times. If you are unsuccessful after the third attempt, you must wait 30 days to try again. Failure to comply might result in your certification being revoked.
Adobe Experience Manager Developer Professional
You should have the following active certification:
- Adobe Experience Manager Developer Professional
Instructions for renewing your certification:
- Step 1: Successfully log in to Adobe Credential Management System, then return to this page
- Step 2: Review the exam objectives and resources
- Step 3: Take and pass the exam
Get ready
Exam details:
- Level: Professional (0-12 months’ experience)
- Passing Score: 26/34
- Time: 68 minutes
- Delivery: On-demand / non-proctored
- Available languages: English
- Cost: FREE
- Exam ID: AD5-E837 Adobe Experience Manager Developer Professional
Scope and objectives:
Section 1: Configurations (26%)
- Recognize the purpose of AEM dispatcher configurations and caching
- Determine the correct steps to configure multi-site in AEM
- Explain how to create and manage OSGi configurations
- Determine the correct steps to manage custom OAK indices
- Determine the correct steps to configure OOTB SAML or IMS integration
Section 2: AEM Development (40%)
- Determine the correct steps to implement core-based components
- Connect component functionality including the HTL, models, and services
- Given a scenario, determine the correct steps to develop workflows
- Given a scenario, outline the purpose of content fragments or experience fragments
Section 3: Build and Deployment (12%)
- Define Maven project structure
- Configure projects from archetypes
Section 4: Environment Maintenance(22%)
- Given a scenario, determine the steps required to debug issues in AEM environments
- Explain AEM maintenance releases
- Identify how to configure AEM across topologies
- Determine the steps required around planning and migrating to AEM as a Cloud Service
Get prepped
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
- Configuring Dispatcher
- Understanding caching
- Reusing Content: Multi Site Manager and Live Copy
- Configuring OSGi
- Content Search and Indexing
- SAML 2.0 Authentication Handler
Section 2
- Using Core Components
- Teaser Component
- Customizing Core Components
- HTL Java Use-API
- Component Basics
- Sling models
- OSGi component lifecycle
- The HTL Specification
- Developing and Extending Workflows
- Content Fragment Models
- Experience Fragments
- AEM GraphQL API for use with Content Fragments
Section 3
Section 4
- Service credentials
- Replication queue issues
- Release Information
- Recommended Deployments
- Getting Started with the Migration Journey to AEM as a Cloud Service
- Using Best Practice Analyzer
Renew your certification
Ensure that you have followed step 1 above, and successfully logged in to Adobe Credential Management System first. Then, to renew your certification, click on the button below.
This exam is free, open book, and un-proctored. You may take the exam up to three times. If you are unsuccessful after the third attempt, you must wait 30 days to try again. Failure to comply might result in your certification being revoked.
You must have at least one of the following active certifications to renew:
- Adobe Experience Manager Sites Developer Expert
- Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner Expert
- Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect Master
- Adobe Experience Manager Assets Developer Expert
- Adobe Experience Manager Dev/Ops Engineer Expert
- Adobe Experience Manager Forms Developer Expert
Instructions for renewing your Adobe Experience Manager certification
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Step 1: Successfully log in to Adobe Credential Management System, then return to this page
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Step 2: Study the courses in Experience League
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Step 3: Choose from the options below to complete your renewal.
Option A:
Select three courses to complete and pass each course assessment with a score of 80% or higher. Course assessments are free, on-demand, non-proctored, and open book. You can repeat the courses until you have successfully passed the assessments at 80%.Option B:
First, select two courses to complete and pass each course assessment with a score of 80% or higher. Course assessments are free, on-demand, non-proctored, and open book. You can repeat the courses until you have successfully passed the assessments at 80%.Second, submit a customer reference form validating your continued work as an Adobe certified individual leading, managing and/or participating on an Adobe Experience Cloud implementation project. This form affirms that you have participated in at least 100 hours of demonstrated project engagement during your certification renewal 2-year interval.
Customer Reference Form for Adobe Experience Manager
You will be notified by the Adobe Credential Team when your customer reference has been reviewed. If your reference is not accepted, you may submit again until you are successful, as long as it is before your certification expires.
If you hold multiple Adobe Experience Manager Expert and Master certifications, complete the renewal requirements for just one certification, and the rest will be renewed automatically.
Courses and course assessments for Expert and Master:
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