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.

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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

Section 2

Section 3

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.

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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.
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Adobe Experience Manager Sites Developer Professional

You should have the following active certification:

  • Adobe Experience Manager Sites 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

Section 2

Section 3

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.

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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.
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Adobe Experience Manager Assets Developer Professional

You should have the following active certification:

  • Adobe Experience Manager Assets 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-E850 Adobe Experience Manager Assets Developer Professional

Scope and objectives:

Section 1: Asset Workflows 25.44%

  • Explain the process to customize OOBT workflows
  • Identify when to create or customize Asset workflows to implement customer requirements
  • Describe the purpose of workflow launchers and how to configure them
  • Differentiate between cloud and on-premise workflows
  • Describe how to use the Workflow console to monitor status and progress

Section 2: Asset Organization and the Asset Console 24.46%

  • Demonstrate how to create and organize Assets in Collections
  • Demonstrate how to organize Assets using Tags
  • Identify how to leverage OOTB Search Filters and facets
  • Describe how to Configure and Generate AEM Asset Reports
  • Describe how to manage User Permissions on Asset Folders

Section 3: Asset Metadata 22.61%

  • Define Metadata schemas
  • Given a scenario, determine how to adjust the appropriate Metadata schema
  • Given a scenario, determine how Metadata profiles can be leveraged to meet requirements
  • Understand how Cascading Metadata schemas work

Section 4: Asset Types 16.21%

  • Describe OOTB features available for Asset Types
  • Explain content fragments and content fragment models
  • Demonstrate how and when to use content fragment variations

Section 5: Asset Feature Sets and Capabilities

  • Describe the common use cases and benefits of using Brand Portal
  • Describe the common use cases and benefits of using Dynamic Media
  • Describe options to leverage AEM using Creative Cloud

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

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

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.

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NOTE
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.
Expert and Master

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 Dev/Ops Engineer Expert
  • Adobe Experience Manager Forms Developer Expert

Instructions for renewing your Adobe Experience Manager certification

  • Step 1: Successfully log in to Adobe Credential Management System, then return to this page

  • Step 2: Study the courses in Experience League

  • 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 Digital Experience Certification Program 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.

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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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Courses for Expert and Master Course Assessment
Moving to Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service ADR-EA101
Planning Your Move to Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service ADR-EA102
Introduction to Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service ADR-EA103
Headless content management using GraphQL APIs ADR-EA104
Personalize Experiences with Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Target ADR-EA105
Integrate Experience Manager Forms Cloud Service with Salesforce ADR-EA106
Adobe Experience Manager Cloud Manager Skill Builder ADR-EA107
Adobe Experience Manager Sites for Architects ADR-EA108

Questions

View the certification FAQ.

Additional questions? Contact us.

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