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Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Migration Expert 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: Expert (1-3 years’ experience)
  • Passing Score: 31/50
  • Time: 100 mins
  • Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
  • Available languages: English
  • Cost: $125 (global) / $95 (India)
  • Exam ID: AD0-E136

Intended audience


  • Developers who have experience with Adobe Experience Manager
  • Developers who have participated in at least one Cloud Migration
  • Adobe Experience Manager Sites Developers
  • Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect
  • Adobe Experience Manager Assets Developers
  • Adobe Experience Manager Forms Developers
  • Developers/DevOps/Leads/Architects who have participated in multiple AEM deployments with a minimum of 2-3 years of web application development experience using Adobe Experience Manager

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum experience

 

You should have:

 

  • An understanding of the overall changes to the architecture and features when moving from any AEM service (self-managed, AMS or any third-party cloud) to AEM as a Cloud Service.
  • 1-3 years of web application development experience using Adobe Experience Manager
  • Hands on experience using AEM Forms, Assets, and Sites
  • The ability to guide customers through the migration process, advising and participating in all phases of an AEM project

 

Additionally, you should be familiar with the following technologies and environments:

 

  • Index conversion tools
  • Workflow conversion tools
  • Dispatcher tools
  • Content delivery network (CDN)
  • Best Practices Analyzer
  • AEM Modernization
  • Repository Browser
  • Developer Console
  • User mapping tool for IMS Adobe
  • I/O cmd tool
  • New Relic
  • Local Cloud SDK
  • Development, Stage, Prod Author, Publish and Preview Service
  • Local Dispatcher setup using Docker
  • Tailing Cloud logs in local environment
  • Cloud console interfaces
 

 

 

 

 

Exam objectives and scope

 

This section provides information on the exam content.

 

Section 1: Assessment (32%)

 

  • Use the BPA
  • Prepare and estimate a migration plan
  • Assess which user, groups and permission need to be moved
  • Review deprecated capabilities
  • Determine the workflow requirements
  • Explain the requirements for content transfer
  • Explain asset related implementation and its impact
  • Identify Dispatcher related requirements

 

Section 2: Design (16%)

 

  • Review existing components and validate with the latest version
  • Prepare configuration for assets microservices
  • Explain caching strategy

 

Section 3: Deployment (16%)

 

  • Configure Cloud Manager pipelines and tie to the environments
  • Provision AEMaaCS environments (dev, stage, prod - author, publish, preview)
  • Manage the deployment process with the help of Adobe IO CLI

 

Section 4: Migration (20%)

 

  • Execute tests
  • Prepare an asset migration strategy
  • Prepare an initial/base content migration strategy
  • Execute migration tools (content transfer, modernizing, refactoring). Report & refine outcomes, especially critical outcomes not handled by tooling
  • Plan the post go-live support

 

Section 5: Implementation (16%)

 

  • Merge multiple projects into a single project to be deployed through Adobe pipeline
  • Manage repointit scripts for user/group permission
  • Set up local SDKs
  • Update configurations based on runmodes available on AEM as a Cloud Service

 

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