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Adobe Commerce Front-end Developer Professional Certification Path

This page provides information on how to attain this certification. It includes a description of the exam, study materials, step-by-step instructions on the certification process, and how to renew your certification.

Exam description

Learn who should take this exam, what experience is recommended, and what subjects are covered on the exam.

Exam details


  • Level: Professional (0-12 months’ experience)
  • Passing Score: 33/50
  • Time: 100 mins
  • Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
  • Available languages: English
  • Cost: $125 (global) / $95 (India)
  • Exam ID: AD0-E721

Intended audience


  • Developers
  • Front-end Developers
  • Full Stack Developers
  • PWA Developers

Minimum experience

 

You should have 0-12 months of hands-on experience with Adobe Commerce Front-end development and the ability to work with technical solutions to deliver individual components.

 

Additionally, you should exhibit knowledge of the following technologies:

 

  • Strong understanding of Adobe Commerce version 2.4.6
  • Basic understanding of the front-end structure and layout
  • Experience and understanding of HTML, CSS (and preprocessors), LESS, JavaScript and UI Components, jQuery, Underscore, Require.JS, Knockout, also PHP templates, DB knowledge and content management
  • Familiarity with the platform, CMS Blocks, Widgets, CMS pages, Category pages, Product pages, Cart and Checkout, and Account Dashboard area
  • Basic understanding or knowledge of admin configurations
  • Knowledge of extending and overwriting styles, layouts, and JS files
  • Extending parent themes/Theme hierarchy
  • CLI command (cache cleaning, setup:upgrade, indexers, deployment mode) & Grunt
  • Caching technologies, client-side browser, understanding storages (Cookies, local storage)
  • Understanding responsive design and media queries
  • WYSIWYG/Page Builder
  • Understanding code packages
  • Implement translation
  • Understanding how to work with email templates
  • Basic understanding of XML
  • Basic understanding of out-of-the-box SEO, optimization and performance techniques
  • Basic understanding of canonical links, as well as merging JavaScript and CSS
  • Basic understanding of Adobe Commerce cloud infrastructure

 

 

 

 

Exam objectives and scope

 

This section provides information on the exam content.

 

Section 1: Theme management (Theme hierarchy, image configuration, translations) (14%)

 

  • Describe Adobe Commerce theme folder structure
  • Demonstrate ability to create new or extend existing themes
  • Demonstrate ability to add custom translation phrases

 

Section 2: Layout XML & templates (30%)

 

  • Demonstrate the ability to work with basic layout XML instructions
  • Demonstrate the ability to use existing page layouts
  • Describe the steps for extending and overriding XML
  • Demonstrate ability to create and customize templates
  • Describe template security (escaping output)

 

Section 3: Styles (22%)

 

  • Describe the purpose of styles-m.less, styles-l.less, print.less
  • Describe the difference between specific partial files (_extends.less,_extend.less,_theme.less,_widgets.less,_module.less)
  • Given a scenario, demonstrate the ability to override or extend Magento LESS
  • Describe the basic concepts of LESS
  • Explain the hierarchy of styles (lib, modules, themes)
  • Explain client-side and server-side compilation

 

Section 4: JavaScript (18%)

 

  • Demonstrate the ability to initialize and call JavaScript components
  • Demonstrate the usage of RequireJS
  • Describe the usage of mixins
  • Describe how to add a translation in JS
  • Describe the usage of Knockout JS
  • Describe the usage of jQuery widgets

 

Section 5: Admin configuration and Page Builder (6%)

 

  • Demonstrate the ability to customize Page Builder and CMS content"
  • Apply/schedule a theme to a specific scope (website, store, store-view)
  • Apply design changes to categories, products and CMS pages using admin configuration
  • Describe steps to customize transactional emails

 

Section 6: Tools (CLI and Grunt) (8%)

 

  • Describe the usage of basic bin/Magento commands
  • Describe the usage of Composer commands (install, update, require, remove)
  • Differentiate the appropriate use case for deploy modes
  • Describe additional tools that cloud provides (Fastly, downloading database, content deployment)

 

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