Exam details
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- Level: Master (3-5 years’ experience)
- Passing Score: 29/50
- Time: 100 mins
- Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
- Available languages: English, Japanese
- Cost: $225 (global) / $150 (India)
- Exam ID: AD0-E117 (English), AD0-E117-J (Japanese)
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Intended audience
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- AEM Architects
- Lead Developers
- Technical Architects
- Solution Architects
- Dev/Ops Lead Engineers
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Minimum experience
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- At least 3 years of experience as an architect building AEM Sites
- The ability to work in Adobe Managed Services and Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service
- The ability to set up Adobe Experience Manager environments and infrastructure
Additionally, you should have the ability to perform the following tasks:
- Design a software change process for customers (on-prem and cloud)
- Define a content model for content/assets that can accommodate future requirements
- Defines the necessary templates and components based on business requirements
- Identify when to use out-of-the-box/functionality/core components versus custom components
- Design caching, load balancing and security strategies (Dispatcher, firewall, CDN)
- Provide high-level effort estimations for initial set up and feature delivery
- Establish the function and use cases of internationalization
- Define strategies to support multi-site and multi-language
- Determine correct configuration mechanisms for software modules
- Integrate third-party and Adobe products with AEM
- Define migration and upgrade strategies (products and content)
- Understand deployment methodologies (content and code)
- Create and deliver infrastructure/deployment diagrams
- Determine information models to use with AEM applications
- Define authentication and authorization security models and concepts
- Determine persistence models based on customers’ requirements (binary storage, deployment scenario, and so on)
- Design workflow models for business processes
- Establish strategies for platform performance and penetration/security testing
- Reuse content across multiple channels
- Account for cloud-focused considerations, such as: Auto-scaling, Replication, Asset management, the implications and differences between on-premises and managed services, Cloud Manager, Package management
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Exam objectives and scope
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This section provides information on the exam content.
Section 1: Discovery (18%)
- Translate high-level business goals to functional requirements
- Given a scenario, assess the current state of an architecture
- Determine non-functional technical requirements for solution design
Section 2: Solution design (44%)
- Given business requirements, design detailed architecture and solution
- Given a scenario, determine appropriate security solutions for a design
- Apply procedural concepts to incorporate integration requirements into a solution design
- Determine which types of performance and testing requirements should be included in a solution
- Apply procedural concepts for designing scalable and resilient architecture
- Given a scenario, recommend migration strategies
Section 3: Implementation (22%)
- Given a scenario, identify and resolve design issues revealed during implementation stage
- Given a scenario, recommend implementation approaches based on requirements
- Determine appropriate methods to use to prototype solutions for proof of concepts
- Given a scenario, diagnose and resolve issues encountered during implementation
Section 4: Maintenance (16%)
- Given a scenario, diagnose and resolve issues encountered in production environment
- Apply procedural concepts to plan for use of new features and upgrades
- Given a scenario, optimize solution for non-functional requirements
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