Alfresco Certified Engineer (ACE)

Proud moment for me to announce, became an Alfresco Certified Engineer yesterday. It had been a good experience to review where am I after working on Alfresco for last 4 years since Alfresco 2.1

For whom, who are targeting for the certification, here are a few useful information.

 

These are areas where you will be tested.

• The Alfresco architecture and Repository
• Understand, design and create content models and custom object types and aspects
• Package and deploy Alfresco extensions and modules
• Develop extensions for the Alfresco Explorer Web Client
• Develop applications and Services using the Alfresco APIs (Foundation Services, JCR, Web Services)
• Understand, define, customize and deploy Advance Workflows and Task Models
• Understand how workflows interact with content
• Connect to external applications using Web Services and protocols like SOAP & CMIS

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There are 80 questions and you have 60 minutes to answer these. You need to secure at least 75% to become an ACE.

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These are courses that will help you to pass the certification

• Alfresco Fundamentals Course
• Alfresco Web Scripts Course
• the Alfresco Share Configuration Course
• API Development Training Course
• Alfresco Workflow Training Course

However, there is no formal requirement or pre-requisite for these courses or training.

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Here is the categories and divisions of areas the questions are structured in the certification.

Architectural Core	39%
Repository Customization	22%
Web Scripting	13%
UI Customization	14%
Web Services	12%

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Types of questions.

• Multiple Choice — you need to select one option that best answers the question or completes a statement.
• Multiple Responses — select more than one option that best answers the question or completes a statement. The text states how many options are correct, such as Choose two.
• Sample Directions — read the statement or question. From the response options, select the option(s) that represent the most correct or best answer(s) given the information provided.
• True/False — select either true or false as the answer.
• Hotspot — you have to click on the correct area within an image. There is only one correct answer to this type of question.