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Adobe Experience Manager Assets 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: 30/50
  • Time: 100 mins
  • Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
  • Available languages: English
  • Cost: $125 (global) / $95 (India)
  • Exam ID: AD0-E129

Intended audience


  • AEM Developers
  • DevOps Engineers
  • AEM Architects
  • Cloud Engineers
  • Site Reliability Engineers
  • Technical Managers
  • Application Operations Engineers
  • Systems Engineers

Minimum experience

 

You should be comfortable working in Adobe Managed Services and Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service, and are able to set up Adobe Experience Manager environments and infrastructure.

You should have:

 

  • 6 months+ CMS experience
  • 6 months+ AEM Assets experience
  • 6 months+ Java developer experience
  • On-premise and Cloud experience

 

Additionally, you should have experience with the following technologies and environments:

 

  • Cloud Manager
  • Adobe IO CLI
  • Git CLI
  • Cloud transition tools
  • Dispatcher converter
  • Repository modernizer
  • Dev staging and production
  • Dev sandbox
  • Local environment
 

 

 

 

 

Exam objectives and scope

 

This section provides information on the exam content.

 

Section 1: Asset workflows (24%)

 

  • Explain the process to customize OOTB 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 (22%)

 

  • 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 (24%)

 

  • 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 (18%)

 

  • 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 (12%)

 

  • 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

 

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