Saurabh Gupta Completes AEM Sites Business Practitioner, Sites Developer, and Architect Certifications

There's always lots of good stuff happening at Hoodoo Digital.  We are pleased to announce that Saurabh Gupta has completed the Adobe Certified Expert exams for Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner, Adobe Experience Manager Sites Developer, and Adobe Experience Manager Site Architect certifications. This exam certifies that he, “demonstrates expertise in helping clients realize value in an Adobe solution.” Adobe provides an exam guide that outlines the things that a Business Practitioner should be proficient with in order to pass the exam. 

Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner Exam Guide:

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become certified as an AEM Sites Business Practitioner has experience with AEM features and capabilities needed to engage developers to find business solutions. They should be able to use AEM products to manage content to drive digital experiences, have an understanding of what modules are present, and have a deeper insight into modules such as Sites, Assets, and Forms. The candidate should be familiar with the following technologies and environments:

• Content Management tool
• Digital Asset Management tool
• Projects
• Forms
• Experience Fragments and Content Fragments
• Screens
• Workflows
• Launches
• CRXDE Lite
• User Administration
• Multi-site Management
• Monitoring tools
• Versioning
• Personalization and Context Hub
• SPA Editor
• Tagging
• Browser Usage
• General understanding of the Web
• Responsive web design concepts
  
  

AEM Developer Exam Guide:

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become certified as an Adobe Experience Manager Developer typically has a minimum of 12 months experience working with the AEM Platform. The candidate should be able to perform advanced component development, have a deep understanding of the MVC framework, be aware of frameworks and libraries in AEM. In addition, the MQC will have an understanding of the AEM development life cycle. Familiarity with the following technologies and environments:

• Set up local AEM environments
• Create basic components based on core OOTB components
• Create and maintain LESS files
• Define the developer’s process
• Set-up a new project structure
• Create and edit a dispatcher rule
• Configure workflows and create custom workflow steps
• Determine the difference between a traditional AEM components and SPA components
• Work with Assets API
• Set up ACLs and permissions including third-party IDPs
• Set up Multi-site manager for languages and brands
• Set up maintenance tasks
• Third-party integrations
• Implement Cloud Configuration
• Set up Cloud Manager Pipelines deployments
• Maven
• Git
• Development and packaging tools
• Command line tools
  
  

Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect Exam Guide

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become certified as an AEM Architect has at least 3 years of experience architecting AEM Sites. The AEM Architect is responsible for designing technical aspects of the AEM platform and optimally leveraging the product features. Familiarity with the following tasks, technologies, and environments:

• 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 3rd 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 (e.g., binary storage, deployment scenario etc.)
• 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

We asked Saurabh why he wanted to pass this certification and his response was: “I wanted to keep myself up to date on the Adobe Experience Manager platform and help inspire confidence in our clients that they are working with a qualified and knowledgable team. On a personal note, this was also a way for me to test my knowledge on the AEM domain."

Saurabh has been with Hoodoo Digital since February of 2021 as an AEM Architect. In his role, he works directly with clients to provide architecture and development for their AEM projects. We are very proud of his hard work in completing the certification and are so glad to have him as part of the Hoodoo team. 

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