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B2C Developer Certification Exam

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• Certification Exam
  • Tom helped write it!
  • Retakes
    • CAn retake an unlimited number of times
      • 1st take
      • 1st retake has no time limit
      • 2nd retake is minimum 4 weeks later
  • About the Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Credential
    • These were the things determined to be essential to the developer job
      • 1 week
    • Then questions were made from the tasks
      • Another 1 week
    • All questions are based on this job task analysis
      • This is the basis for all Salesforce exams
    • These are for the minimally qualified candidates
      • Designed for someone who's been doing this a few months
      • Goal: to separate between a qualified Cand and an unqualified Cand
  • Audience Description: Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer
    • Describes the kinds of things a minimally qualified candidate should be able to do
    • Doesn't talk about questions, but this is the job that they are trying to test for
    • No explicit github questions, but it's expected that a full time dev can use it
  • Ignore the typical job titles
    • Irrelevant
  • About the Exam
    • 60 multiple choice (radio button), multi select (checkbox), or matching questions
      • No matching questions, as of yet (Tom is pretty sure)
      • No short answer questions
      • No writing code
      • Just recognize the correct answer
      • For multi select
        • Will be told exactly how many answers to select
        • Number of selections is double checked by the exam
      • 5 questions that don't count towards the score
        • Will see 65 questions
        • They're there for statistical analysis, before they're added to the actual exam (beta test)
        • Included inthe 105 minutes, would be 90 minutes without extras
    • No reference material is allowed, at all
    • Run the Kryterion system readiness check before taking the exam, and download the required software
• Trails
  • Take a look at the merchant material in trailhead
• Exam Outline
  • Each of the % sections relates to the job description from above
  • Commerce Setup
    • Given a sandbox env, configure an IDE...
      • Will not be given a sandbox in the exam
      • Hypothetical scenario
      • Sample question might be about dw.json or version directories
      • Will not be IDE specific
    • Given a sandbox instance and data...
      • Assuming you have a sandbox and some import files, can you import it manually in BM using the import/export modules?
    • Given the code for a storefront...
      • Can you get the cart path right?
      • There will certainly be a question about this
      • e.g. This controller exists, with these three carts, and the override is in this one. What is the path?
    • Given a sandbox environment, use the...
    • Work with a B2C site
      • Given a BM task...
        • Not covered in class, go over in merchant trails!
        • Look at Tom's trailhead live video, part 1
          • Audio cuts out a little bit
      • Given a config task...
        • Use BM to enable storefront orders to be completed
        • Not covered in class, go over in merchant trails!
        • Look at Tom's trailhead live video, part 2 (coming in April)
    • Data Management
      • Maybe 15 questions
      • Modify search preferences
        • This is talking about searchable attributes
      • Create and configure search refinements
        • This is done in the site catalog
        • At the very least play around with this, look at existing categories
      • Given a debugging requirement...
        • Very important
        • First thing in custom logging exercise
      • New attributes on an existing system type
        • System objects exercise
      • Given a business need to store custom...
        • Newsletter exercise
        • Don't be surprised if you see questions with the option of creating a cusstom object, and it's the wrong answer
          • Custom attribute on system object
      • Given a problem or performance issue...
        • This is the code/pipeline profilers
        • Cache configurations
      • Given a specification and a...
        • Configure OCAPI
        • Look at exercise
        • Will not have to memorize all resources available, but should recognize
      • Given a service configuration
        • Not covered in class
        • Recognize how service configs apply to development
          • More senior responsibility to configure
        • Services timeout, circuit breaker
    • Application Development
      • ISML
      • Debugging
      • Best Practices
      • Techniques
      • Extend controllers using models, factories, etc.
      • Page designer tools
        • Can you design a new page?
        • Do you know how to use PD, and write code for PD
      • Forms framework
        • CSRF protection!
      • Localization requirements
        • Do you know how to use externalized strings in forms and templates?
        • Do you know what your properties file needs to look like and where it needs to go?
      • logging
        • Do you know the syntax for logging
      • Use a service instance
        • Not covered in class
      • Hooks
        • At least one question on hooks
      • Given violated best practices...
        • e.g. The following code snippet is performing poorly, the most likely cause is A, B, C, or D?
        • Shown bad code or issue, may be asked what is the likely cause
      • Can you do OCAPI?
      • Can you do a job?
  • Maintenance
    • Complete maintenance exam, or cert expires
    • Free
    • Impossible to fail
      • All maintenance exams are on trailhead
      • Can change answers for incorrect questions
      • Can retake until all answers are correct
    • Just don't forget
      • There will be automated emails