Category: sitecore

This Certification has been a standard requirement for all of us who are active in Sitecore.

I would like to share few important insights about the Certification and what is important that you need to prepare.

First and foremost thing is to have enough practice on the product, then you need to read the latest developments.

Sitecore has been improving the platform its integrations with the parallel technologies and keep it powerful on every iterations. so each one of us should strive to keep updating their technical skills

What is covered in this certification is very clear, you can read them in the learning requirements for the Certification, at learning.sitecore.com.

Make a note of the competencies requires listed and explained in the study guide section.

There are few things which I am listing below to take keen note on

1. Sitecore has introduced and delivered a great developer tool Sitecore CLI so remember what are the advantages of using it one part, but what if you are trying to do a task and that is not working as expected and how will you fix it. Yes the plugin.
2. Sitecore has a come a long way in helping deployment of content from environment to environment, however to the developer workflow one cannot forget the best part of serialization, so Content Serialization is a better needed tool for us developers. Pay attention to what are the important configuration files, what if you do not do some important steps and the expected items did not end up in the right environment.
   • How the modules and its dependencies work together
   • which files (configuration) needs to be done right
   • where is the setting for dependencies
   • how do the rules work
3. During the first steps all of us will do an installation, we would not work without it. With SIF there were great learnings, however the cool GUI Installation tool always had those challenges, so remember those errors which can cause the situation. Don’t drop your learnings what happens if you don’t configure Solr right and still get your self ahead, this tool is going to stop you, right! read the error properly and you will understand the reasons well.
4. SXA all of us would expect that this will be the topic, I agree people said there is NO SXA in the exam. It is non-sxa. in order to answer questions which starts with “in a non-sxa site”… you need to know what is done in SXA and non-SXA too. The answers will help you to remove two obvious non related answers then the rest will guide you to answer. Don’t get trapped in loops just your experience is the answer.
5. “Back” button is your friend, one question which will confuse you or challenges your memory will connect and click in the next question. So get back and fix it.
6. The basics of Placeholders and Placeholder Settings are no exceptions,
   • what happens if you don’t have the settings right
   • why would both the components content is visible while you place them on a layout
   • importance of dynamic placeholders
7. Another basics is Rendering parameters, they will always be your friend so, what would you recommend to get this situation corrected when you a developer repeats sitting in the same project but in different rooms (silos), yes best practices angle is the right stuff for all your questions.
8. Docker has been our friend since many years, this is mainstream for non-developers too. The basics of environment files and their significance is very cool foundation items. Don’t miss them these are easy common items
9. If you wear your Best Practices hat, you will be looking at serious flaws in design and approach, why would this template inherit from that one vs why would you keep the fields organized when defining the order. These are basics often goes without saying.
10. Read the study guide you will get few practice questions, this will provide an idea of how the questions are framed. They will be showing you the answer in plain sight and try to mislead you at the same time.

Practice more and be confident, this will help you to get the high scores.

References

1. All details from booking the exam to planning is well documented in Bala’s Sitecore 10 Certification tips and Tricks