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Adobe Marketo Engage Architect Master 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


  • Prerequisite: Active (not expired) Adobe Marketo Engage Business Practitioner Expert Certification
  • Level: Master (3-5 years’ experience)
  • Practitioner certification
  • Passing Score: 32/50
  • Time: 100 mins
  • Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
  • Available languages: English
  • Cost: $225 (global) / $150 (India)
  • Exam ID: AD0-E560

Intended audience


  • Marketing technology manager
  • Senior/Marketing operations manager
  • Marketing operations director
  • Senior Director/Manager for revenue operations
  • Marketing operations/technology/automation consultants
  • Marketing technologist
  • Campaign manager
  • Marketing automation manager
  • Digital marketing
  • Demand generation manager
  • Solutions architect
  • Business systems analyst
  • CRM manager
  • CRM/Lifecycle marketing manager

Minimum experience

 

You should have:

 

  • A current certification as an Marketo Engage Business Practitioner Certified Expert
  • At least five years of experience, preferably with multiple instances of Marketo Engage
  • An understanding of the business impact and effectively explain/communicate their solution to the stakeholders (technical and non-technical) at different levels
  • The ability to conceptualize a solution and translate to a Marketo Engage architecture, understand the business processes impacted by integrations
  • Familiarity with the principles of architecting an instance

 

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

 

  • Adobe Marketo Engage features, functionality, and apps
  • Database systems
  • API connectivity
  • CRM platform
  • Marketing technology platforms

 

 

 

 

Exam objectives and scope

 

This section provides information on the exam content.

 

Section 1: Project Leadership (16%)

 

  • Given a case study, identify the right stakeholders
  • Evaluate a set of requirements and recommend project boundaries, budget, resources, and scope
  • Given a modified process, determine who needs enablement and efficient enablement rollout plan
  • Evaluate an audit and recommend priorities and timeline

 

Section 2: Marketo Engage Architecture Design (48%)

 

  • Gather requirements/needs and recommend a lead management and lifecycle design
  • Review an existing implementation and provide findings
  • Given a business need, identify the different behaviors for scoring
  • Review an existing implementation, recommend actions to scale campaign execution
  • Outline an operational procedure for lead routing multiple countries
  • Given a scenario, evaluate the impact and requirements to incorporate new technology to the instance
  • Identify the different types of integrations and when to use them
  • Given a scenario, outline various stages in the person lifecycle impacted by proposed changes/requirements
  • Appraise a set of requirements and recommend an approach to campaign logic

 

Section 3: Reporting and Attribution (20%)

 

  • Given a model to review, explain the concept of detours in the lifecycle modeler
  • Given an online advertising or organic social or content, recommend an approach for reporting
  • Illustrate how to validate Marketo Engage reporting in tracking lifecycle changes
  • Identify metrics to use in a given report type
  • Identify how to track multi-channel attribution to evaluate ROI
  • Identify and describe the pros and cons of different attribution models
  • Given a business requirement, describe the effects of channel set up to reporting

 

Section 4: Advanced Operations (16%)

 

  • Given a scenario, identify appropriate steps to improve management or governance
  • Given a set of requirements, recommend an efficient data schema
  • Evaluate a customer’s implementation and recommend actions to improve deliverability
  • Evaluate a customer’s implementation and recommend actions to improve administration management
  • Gather information about a client’s implementation and recommend security practices
  • Explain the applicability of workspace and partitions for a given scenario

 

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