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: 36/64
• Time: 130 mins
• Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access) or test center proctored
• Available languages: English
• Cost: $225 (global) / $150 (India)
• Exam ID: AD0-E904

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 diagram, select the correct hierarchy order of access.
• Given a scenario, identify when a group status vs. 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 impact what can be seen or done within Workfront.
• Given a scenario, recommend whether a Team should be standard, Kanban, or Scrum.
• Given a scenario, determine the best practice for deploying Agile team custom storyboards.

Section 2: Intake, custom forms, and project management (17%)

• Given a scenario, identify the configuration areas needed to support the work allocations.
• Given a scenario, identify the necessary settings.
• 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.

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

• Given a scenario, determine how to capture post-project KPIs that are reflected in the Portfolio Optimizer.
• Given a scenario, adjust the business case to reflect a change 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 fully staffed.
• Given a scenario, determine the root cause.
• Given a scenario, determine why a user is over allocated.

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 setup external document storage with security restrictions

Section 5: Reporting (13%)

• 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 parent-to-child relationships in a report.
• Given a scenario, describe how reporting facilitates efficient execution of work.
• Given a scenario, illustrate Workfront Reporting to monitor and improve user adoption.

Section 6: Methodology / best practices / use cases (20%)

• 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 for Agile, identify native features to show progress.
• 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.

Section 7: Business consulting (8%)

• Given a scenario, describe the process needed to fully support that effort.

• 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, provide a recommendation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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