Certification journey for Adobe Workfront Core Developer Expert

Intended audience:

• Workfront System Administrators specializing in implementation, and new or updated instance configuration
• Process designer/architect
• Business analyst
• Technical consultant
• Configuration consultant

Exam details:

• Level: Expert (1-3 years’ experience)
• Passing Score: 35/50
• Time: 100 mins
• Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access) or test center proctored
• Available languages: English
• Cost: $225 (global) / $150 (India)
• Exam ID: AD0-E907

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: Core system administration and setup (17%)

• Given a scenario, describe ways to effectively share permissions and access.
• Given a scenario, identify when a group status versus a system status should be used.
• Given a data set, demonstrate the capabilities of kickstarts.
• Given a scenario, identify best practices for auto-provisioning users.
• Given a scenario, demonstrate how Groups and Teams within a user’s profile can affect what can be seen or done within Workfront.
• Given a scenario, recommend a Boards configuration to meet a custom requirement.
• Given a scenario, identify best practices for group administration.

Section 2: Intake, custom forms, and project initiation (13%)

• Given a scenario, identify the configuration areas needed to support the work allocations.
• Given a scenario, identify how a value is passed to a project custom form.
• Given a scenario, describe what must be done to address reporting and calculation errors.
• Given a scenario, identify supporting elements that lend themselves to templates.
• Given a scenario with multiple forms, determine actions to control access, visibility and dependency.
• Given a scenario with calculated fields on multi-object forms, identify the correct formula.

Section 3: Strategic functionality: portfolio and program management, resource management (13%)

• Given a scenario, define tools to capture changes in the project scope.
• Given a scenario, create a view that identifies within a portfolio whether a project meets the average level of requisite criteria to be executed.
• Given a scenario, describe ways to manage risk qualitatively or quantitatively.
• Given a scenario, provide a mechanism to ensure the highest priority projects are set up to be resourced appropriately.
• Given a scenario, provide a mechanism to ensure that projects are fully staffed by using Resource Management tools.
• Given a scenario, use Resource Management tools to determine why a user is overallocated.

Section 4: Document management and proof (13%)

• Given a scenario, demonstrate when to utilize document management versus proofing
• Given a scenario, identify best practices for using the proofing viewer, settings, and markup functionality
• Given a scenario, demonstrate how to edit and set permissions on a file
• Given a scenario, demonstrate how to set up external document storage with security restrictions
• Given a scenario, set up a connection to AEM as a Cloud Service or AEM Assets Essentials.

Section 5: Reporting (11%)

• Given a scenario, describe ways to combine multiple columns of data into a single column.
• Given a report or filter, demonstrate the merits of using wildcard values.
• Identify how to report on parent-to-child relationships using native reporting.
• Given a scenario, describe how reporting facilitates efficient execution of work.
• Given a scenario, illustrate Workfront Reporting to monitor and improve user adoption.
• Given a scenario, determine how a field type would render on a report. (Field types include: rich text, images, multi-select)

Section 6: Methodology / best practices / use cases (22%)

• Given a scenario within Workfront, demonstrate functionality for setting up tracking of deliverables that are part of a single campaign.
• Given a scenario within Workfront, demonstrate functionality around strategic prioritization and justification of work .
• Given a scenario within Workfront, demonstrate functionality around financials, utilization, forecasting, billing rates/records
• Given a scenario within Workfront, demonstrate functionality around setting up workflow and approvals.
• Given a scenario, recommend a framework for governance around system administration when expanding a client’s instance.
• Given a scenario, identify areas for consideration when expanding a client’s instance to enable additional teams to work together.
• Given a scenario using Workfront Boards, identify native features to show progress.
• Given a scenario, recommend a framework for governance around system and group administration.

Section 7: Business consulting (11%)

• Given a scenario, describe the process needed to fully support effort of implementing Workfront in a cross-functional department.

• Given a scenario, explain how to adapt an existing Workflow to meet a recent change in a critical, inflight business process.

• Given a scenario, identify configuration settings that are most difficult to change to a given instance.

• Given a scenario, identify the key considerations of change management for a Workfront implementation

• Given a scenario where a client has multiple teams, provide a recommendation to increase efficiency.

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: Core System Administration and Setup

• System setup: groups and users
• How access levels and permissions work together
• System project statuses
• Kick-Starts
• Map user attributes and auto-provision new users
• Create groups and subgroups
• Edit projects
• Create Routing Rules

Section 2: Intake, custom forms, and project management

• Configure global default project settings
• Configure My Settings
• Add calculated data to a custom form
• Error handling walkthrough
• Best Practice - Project templates
• Add calculated fields with the form designer
• Create a Request Queue

Section 3: Strategic functionality - portfolio and program management, resource management

• Understand KPIs in Enhanced Analytics
• Project Scope Management
• Prioritize and manage work with portfolios
• Create and edit risks on projects
• Understand and update project priorities
• View: originating issue details for tasks and projects
• Create project baselines
• Portfolio Optimizer overview

Section 4: Document management and proof

• Understand the difference between a document and a proof
• Best Practice - Proofing
• Edit projects
• Link documents from external applications
• Create document folders
• Configure the Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service integration

Section 5: Reporting

• View: merge information from multiple columns in one shared column
• Create filters with user-based wildcards
• View: display the parent-child relationship in a task by indenting the tasks
• Reports and Dashboards
• Best Practice - Onboarding and adoption
• Create a custom report
• Wildcard filter variables

Section 6: Methodology / best practices / use cases

• Track progress from the project timeline
• Prioritize your work in Workfront Home
• Overview of Billing and Revenue
• View resource utilization information
• Create an approval process for work items
• Automated Workflow overview
• Calendar reports overview
• Manage projects in the Portfolio Optimizer

Section 7: Business consulting

• Understand Work Effort

• Edit an automated workflow template

• Convert issues to other work items

• Configure global default project settings

• Defining objectives for your Adobe Workfront implementation

• Best Practice - Resource Planner

• “Can Start” overview for tasks

• Best Practice – Onboarding and adoption

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