Adobe Experience Manager DevOps Engineer Certification

A quick guide to Adobe Experience Manager DevOps Engineer Certification

AEM DevOps engineer certification is intended for people who are mainly involved in AEM setup, installation, maintenance etc. Anyone who has been working as AEM developer, lead, or architect can take this exam as most of the concepts are common across these 3 work streams of AEM.

Adobe Experience Manager DevOps Engineer Exam Details

• No of questions: 54(MCQ)
• Time: 108 minutes
• Passing score: 65%
• Delivery: Online proctored or test center proctored
• Cost: USD 180

Topics Covered

• Installation & Configuration of AEM. This includes setting up Author-Publish clusters with replication agents, using Segment or Document store for repository. Configuring FileDatastore for binaries etc.
• User, groups & permission management. Providing and managing access to AEM instances to people across your organization and external users.
• Troubleshooting & Debugging. How to find and fix errors in the application and tool itself. How to install hotfixes and plan upgrades.
• Dispatcher setup, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Packaging and deployment.
• Maintenance. This is the most meaty part of this certification and covers up approximately 25-30% of questions. It covers things like backup & restore, uptime & performance monitoring, scaling up,out,in etc, setting up DR sites or creating clone environments, reporting etc.

How is the Adobe AEM Dev/Ops Engineer ExamStructured?

• Number of questions: 50
• Time limit: 75 minutes
• Passing score: All Adobe exams are reported on a scale of 300 to 700. The passing score for each
• exam is 550. For more information about scaled scoring.

How Do I Register for the Exam?

Our exams are delivered worldwide by PSI.
• Exam name: Adobe Experience Manager Developer/Operations Engineer
• Exam number: 9A0-397
• Exam cost: $180 (US Dollars)

Adobe Experience Manager DevOps Engineer Preparation Tips

• The best way to prepare is to use product experience and try the above-mentioned things on your own.
• Solution partner portal. You can watch on-demand videos for the same but it’s time-consuming.
• Adobe Docs. Very helpful and descriptive. combine it with the first step to achieve maximum results.
• Study groups. Work in groups to distribute the topics and use peer learning the increase the pace of learning.

Exam Guide: spark.adobe.com it also has a practice test which can be used to check your preparation levels.

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Author: Raman Aggarwal is a Digital Transformation Expert and an AEM Practice Lead. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.

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