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Adobe Target Business Practitioner 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: 31/50
  • Time: 100 mins
  • Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
  • Available languages: English, Japanese
  • Cost: $125 (global) / $95 (India)
  • Exam ID: AD0-E408 (English), AD0-E408-J (Japanese)

Intended audience


The intended candidates for this certification include members of the following teams/organizations:

 

  • Optimization
  • Personalization
  • Analytics
  • Digital and product marketing

Minimum experience

 

You should have:

 

  • 0-12 months experience with optimization platforms, including Adobe Target
  • Supervised hands-on experience with Adobe Target
  • 0-12 months experience leading/contributing to optimization programs
  • Ability to identify basic Target/Adobe Marketing Cloud administrative tasks (preferences, user roles and permissions, settings)
  • A basic knowledge of the three-step workflow (experiences, targeting, and goals and settings, including all reporting sources)
  • The ability to read and understand Activity reporting results

 

 

 

 

Exam objectives and scope

 

This section provides information on the exam content.

 

Section 1: Planning and strategy (26%)

 

  • Identify business KPIs
  • Given a scenario of business KPIs and data analysis, identify opportunities for optimization
  • Describe how variables impact an activity
  • Construct test hypotheses based on a given scenario
  • Identify hypotheses elements
  • Describe KPI-based primary and secondary success metrics
  • Given a scenario, assess audience requirements
  • Describe appropriate analytics reporting sources (that is, Target or Adobe Analytics)

 

Section 2: Configuring, executing and managing (50%)

 

  • Explain the use of Form-Based Experience Composer vs. the Visual Experience Composer
  • Describe procedures to create an experience using VEC
  • Describe procedures to create an experience using Form-Based Composer
  • Describe procedures to manage experiences within an experience composer
  • Describe the workflow that applies to creating Target Activities
  • Given a scenario, apply procedures to create an A/B test activity
  • Given a scenario, apply procedures to create an XT activity
  • Given a scenario, apply procedures to create an MVT activity
  • Identify how AP is used for solutions
  • Identify when to use the Recommendation activity
  • Describe procedures to create an Audience in Target
  • Describe procedures to set Goals and Settings
  • Describe procedures to conduct Activity QA
  • Describe procedures to manage Activities and Audiences within Target

 

Section 3: Analyzing and reporting (16%)

 

  • Describe settings to help set the elements that appear in a report
  • Describe the difference in Adobe Target Sample Size Calculator settings between planning and validating
  • Describe common problems associated with A/B testing
  • Identify how Automated Personalization Summary reports differ from other reports
  • Describe the features of Experience Performance reports (MVT)
  • Describe best practices that should be followed in A/B testing execution

 

Section 4: Troubleshooting (8%)

 

  • Given a scenario, identify activity qualification issues
  • Identify the features of browser debugging tools (including Experience Cloud Debugger)
  • Identify metrics and reporting

 

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