Certified Professional Exam Preparation Guide
The Adobe Certified Professional – Adobe Campaign Classic Developer exam preparation guide provides candidates with information they need to prepare for the certification exam.
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What’s Covered in this Preparation Guide
This Adobe Certified Professional - Adobe Campaign Classic Developer Preparation Guide is designed to help you prepare for the Certified Professional Exam. It includes:
- Recommended learning and experience for certification
- Overview of the certification exam and key topic areas
- Sample questions
- Additional study aids
Recommended Learning and Experience
Adobe recommends a combination of training, documentation, community sharing, and on-the-job experience to increase your chances for success. Key recommendations
At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become certified as an Adobe Campaign Classic Developer -Certified Professional has
- At least one year of Adobe Campaign Classic software experience
- At least one year of combined experience in JavaScript programming, SQL development including ETL, and web technologies (XML, HTML and web services)
- Basic understanding of marketing automation
- Understanding relational database concepts
The exam is intended for candidates with broad experience in Adobe Campaign as a Developer. Typical roles of candidates preparing for this certification include:
- Associate consultant
- Junior technical consultant
- Junior Marketing technology engineer
- Junior Campaign developer
Exam Information
The Adobe Certified Professional - Adobe Campaign Classic Developer Exam has been designed to assess your knowledge skills and ability. The exam is rigorously developed and professionally administered in order to provide a highly respected Adobe technical credential.
Exam Format
The current Adobe Campaign Classic Developer Exam has the following characteristics:
- Exam number: AD0-E313
- Exam name: Adobe Campaign Classic Developer
- Certificate level: Certified Professional
- Status: Active
- Available languages: English
- Number of questions: 50
- Formats: Multiple choice and multiple select
- Duration: 120 minutes
- Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access) or test center proctored
- Passing mark: 31/50
- Price: $125 USD / $95 USD (India)
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Exam Topic Areas
The Adobe Certified Professional - Adobe Campaign Classic Developer Exam measures the candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the content areas listed below. Candidates should have hands-on experience and be able to perform the tasks listed as Exam Objectives within each content area.
Exam Readiness self-assessment
Take the online readiness questionnaire to check if your current experience matches with the minimum candidate qualifications.
Exam Objectives and Scope
Section 1: System configuration (27%)
- Demonstrate system-wide configuration of settings in the Administration node
- Apply the process to extend the OOTB Recipient schema
- Define schema details (primary keys, auto primary keys, database indexes)
- Distinguish the applicable uses of Form Renderings
- Distinguish system-wide configuration settings that affect the workspace/project level
- Identify configuration settings for SFTP external accounts
- Identify the configuration settings for Open and Closed enumerations
- Identify requirements to configure object counters
- Differentiate Typology Rule Types
- Apply the process to update a Typology in a Development environment
- Identify requirements to utilize a custom Target Map and its effects to OOTB functionality
- Describe how externally-generated audiences from other Adobe Experience Cloud solutions are accessed in Adobe Campaign Classic
- Describe the business use case for interactions and offers
- Describe the business use case for Message Center
Section 2: Customization (15%)
- Apply the process to edit Campaign schemas
- Identify the settings to ensure correct schema extension or configure custom schemas
- Describe the use case for customized Options
- Describe the use case for Seedlists
- Modify the OOTB opt-out / Unsubscribe web app
- Apply the process to create Content Management components
- Identify the use cases to use Content Management
- Apply to process to update the OOTB forms
Section 3: Operational security (9%)
- Describe the process for adding user groups and roles
- Apply the process to translate the user management matrix with correct user rights and hierarchy
- Identify and define the correct permissions
- Identify the security zone for a user group
Section 4: Technical workflows (30%)
- Apply the process to import/export
- Apply the process to build a data ingestion workflow
- Identify the different sources of data that a workflow can access
- Apply the process to transform data and manipulate the work table
- Enumerate applicable workflow activities and their features/properties
- Apply the process to configure workflow properties
- Extend activity functionality using the Expression Editor
- Distinguish the difference between the OOTB workflows and user-created workflows
- Explain the purpose of the OOTB workflows
- Troubleshoot custom workflows
- Differentiate between variable types and their scope and usage
- Identify the OOTB variables and their use
- Apply the process to configure alerts and approvals
Section 5: Instance maintenance (4%)
- Identify errors from different service logs
- Explain Workflow Heatmap readings
Section 6: Campaign configuration (15%)
- Apply the process to create campaigns using Campaign templates
- Describe the process to create approvals
- Identify errors by analyzing audit logs
- Identify the usage of different deliveries, given a campaign scenario
- Define the process to create the advanced process in workflows
- Describe workflow execution methods
Online Sample Questions
The sample questions allow you to see the type and format of items that you will encounter in the actual exam. There is no sign-on needed. The results of the sample questions are not stored, and do not predict your actual test results.
ADO- E313 Adobe Campaign Classic Developer Sample Questions
- Provide your email address.
- Answer the candidate agreement.
- Start the test.
- Mark your answer in each question.
- Click Next on the upper portion of the screen to save your answer and move to the next question. You may return and revise your question within the specified time.
- On the last question, click Submit Exam to submit all your answers.
- Answer the short survey
Additional Study Aid Resources
Adobe has provided additional study aids to help you prepare for your certification exam. These include content from Adobe Experience League, Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, and technical documentation.
System configuration
Customization
- Campaign Classic v7 Documentation
- Adobe Campaign Classic v7 Documentation
- Adobe Campaign Standard Documentation
- Adobe Campaign Classic v7 & Campaign v8
Operational security
Technical workflows
- Campaign Classic v7 Documentation
- Adobe Campaign Classic v7 & Campaign v8
- Adobe Campaign Classic v7 Documentation
- Adobe Campaign Standard
- Targeting activities
- Adobe Campaign Standard Documentation
Instance maintenance
Campaign configuration
- Campaign Classic v7 Documentation
- Adobe Campaign Standard Documentation
- Adobe Campaign Classic V7 Tutorials - Overview
- Adobe Campaign Classic v7 Documentation
- Sub-workflow activity in Adobe Campaign
- Adobe Campaign Standard
- Adobe Campaign - API Documentation
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The content of this exam guide is subject to changes and updates. Last update April 2020