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Adobe Workfront Core Developer 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: 35/50
  • Time: 100 mins
  • Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
  • Available languages: English
  • Cost: $225 (global) / $150 (India)
  • Exam ID: AD0-E907

Intended audience


  • Workfront System Administrators specializing in implementation, and new or updated instance configuration
  • Process designer/architect
  • Business analyst
  • Technical consultant
  • Configuration consultant

Minimum experience

 

You should have at least 18-24 months experience with Adobe Workfront, and should be able to:

 

  • Navigate the Workfront system, understanding where its functionality resides
  • Configure all aspects of the system
  • Discuss requirements with customers and translate those into a viable solution
  • Elicit and modify existing process for improvement in a collaborative way
  • Understand and apply the marketing and PMO uses cases
  • Recommend and create reports that support customer processes

 

 

 

 

 

Exam objectives and scope

 

This section provides information on the exam content.

 

Section 1: Core system administration and setup (17%)

 

  • Given a scenario, describe ways to effectively share permissions and access.
  • Given a scenario, identify when a group status versus a system status should be used.
  • Given a data set, demonstrate the capabilities of kickstarts.
  • Given a scenario, identify best practices for auto-provisioning users.
  • Given a scenario, demonstrate how Groups and Teams within a user’s profile can affect what can be seen or done within Workfront.
  • Given a scenario, recommend a Boards configuration to meet a custom requirement.
  • Given a scenario, identify best practices for group administration.

 

Section 2: Intake, custom forms, and project initiation (13%)

 

  • Given a scenario, identify the configuration areas needed to support the work allocations.
  • Given a scenario, identify how a value is passed to a project custom form.
  • Given a scenario, describe what must be done to address reporting and calculation errors.
  • Given a scenario, identify supporting elements that lend themselves to templates.
  • Given a scenario with multiple forms, determine actions to control access, visibility and dependency.
  • Given a scenario with calculated fields on multi-object forms, identify the correct formula.

 

Section 3: Strategic functionality: portfolio and program management, resource management (13%)

 

  • Given a scenario, define tools to capture changes in the project scope.
  • Given a scenario, create a view that identifies within a portfolio whether a project meets the average level of requisite criteria to be executed.
  • Given a scenario, describe ways to manage risk qualitatively or quantitatively.
  • Given a scenario, provide a mechanism to ensure the highest priority projects are set up to be resourced appropriately.
  • Given a scenario, provide a mechanism to ensure that projects are fully staffed by using Resource Management tools.
  • Given a scenario, use Resource Management tools to determine why a user is overallocated.

 

Section 4: Document management and proof (13%)

 

  • Given a scenario, demonstrate when to utilize document management versus proofing
  • Given a scenario, identify best practices for using the proofing viewer, settings, and markup functionality
  • Given a scenario, demonstrate how to edit and set permissions on a file
  • Given a scenario, demonstrate how to set up external document storage with security restrictions
  • Given a scenario, set up a connection to AEM as a Cloud Service or AEM Assets Essentials.

 

Section 5: Reporting (11%)

 

  • Given a scenario, describe ways to combine multiple columns of data into a single column.
  • Given a report or filter, demonstrate the merits of using wildcard values.
  • Identify how to report on parent-to-child relationships using native reporting.
  • Given a scenario, describe how reporting facilitates efficient execution of work.
  • Given a scenario, illustrate Workfront Reporting to monitor and improve user adoption.
  • Given a scenario, determine how a field type would render on a report. (Field types include: rich text, images, multi-select)

 

Section 6: Methodology / best practices / use cases (22%)

 

  • Given a scenario within Workfront, demonstrate functionality for setting up tracking of deliverables that are part of a single campaign.
  • Given a scenario within Workfront, demonstrate functionality around strategic prioritization and justification of work.
  • Given a scenario within Workfront, demonstrate functionality around financials, utilization, forecasting, billing rates/records
  • Given a scenario within Workfront, demonstrate functionality around setting up workflow and approvals.
  • Given a scenario, recommend a framework for governance around system administration when expanding a client’s instance.
  • Given a scenario, identify areas for consideration when expanding a client’s instance to enable additional teams to work together.
  • Given a scenario using Workfront Boards, identify native features to show progress.
  • Given a scenario, recommend a framework for governance around system and group administration.

 

Section 7: Business consulting (11%)

 

  • Given a scenario, describe the process needed to fully support effort of implementing Workfront in a cross-functional department.
  • Given a scenario, explain how to adapt an existing Workflow to meet a recent change in a critical, inflight business process.
  • Given a scenario, identify configuration settings that are most difficult to change to a given instance.
  • Given a scenario, identify the key considerations of change management for a Workfront implementation
  • Given a scenario where a client has multiple teams, provide a recommendation to increase efficiency.

 

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