Adobe AEM 6 Developer Certification Guide 9A0-384

The focus of this tutorials is on what to study for passing AEM certification exam(9A0-384). AEM is a huge product, i am working on it from past 2 years and every single days i get something new to learn.  My focus in this tutorial is on the sections from where we get questions, so that you can pass the exam.

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This Tutorial covers below topics :- 

• AEM Certification Typical Candidate Requirement. 
• AEM Certification Exam Description. 

AEM Certification Typical Candidate Requirement :- 

• A typical candidate appearing for AEM certification should have :- 
• Two Years CMS experience. One Year experience with AEM/CQ. 
• Two years experience as a java developer. 
• Involved in at least 2 AEM implementations. 

AEM Certification Exam Description : 
The exam is divided into two parts:- 51 multiple choice questions. These 51 questions are divided into Four Different Parts and each part has different weight age of questions. 

• Installing and Configuring an AEM Developer Environment. – 21% 
• Building and deploying AEM projects. -10% 
• Building AEM components – 24% Building OSGI Services. – 21% 
• Troubleshooting AEM Projects. – 24% 
• A short survey that is used to know your product experience 

The exam has a time limit of total 130 minutes including English language extension.

Exam code and name: 9A0-384 Adobe Experience Manager 6.0 Developer Exam. 

Exam Scoring: You need to achieve a score of at least 63% on multiple choice test to pass the exam. Once you complete the test you will get your score on your computer screen as well as you will get a mail for the same. Exam cost: $120 (US Dollars)

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Preparation Guide:
1)  Installing and Configuring an AEM Developer Environment

• Install AEM on supported operating systems
• Install AEM with different run modes (Author and Publish)
• Start AEM in debug mode for remote debugging
• Setup and configure replication agents
• Setup and configure a Web server
• Setup and configure the Dispatcher
• Setup and manage OSGi configurations
• Manage users and groups
• Manage Access Control Level (ACL) permissions

2) Building and Deploying AEM Projects:

• Configure a source control system to manage files in AEM
• Build and deploy AEM projects by using Maven

3) Building AEM components

• Create custom components and dialogs
• Create templates and page components.
• Create client libraries
• Extend out-of-the-box AEM components
• Edit behaviour of a component
• JSP Tag libraries

4) Building OSGi services

• Create custom OSGi services
• Create and manage custom OSGi configurations
• Configure and manage OSGi services and bundles by using the Felix web console.
• Manage Maven dependencies

5) Troubleshooting AEM Projects

• Create custom log files by using the Web console
• Configure and manage AEM log levels for specific AEM environments.
• Troubleshoot caching issues related to the Dispatcher and browsers.
• Troubleshoot AEM configurations.

Good to learn

• Configure AEM workflows
• SCR Annotations
• AEM JSP code snippets
• Sightly Code Snippets
• Vault Tool
• Sightly (No Questions from this)

Key areas covered in exam:

• Runmodes
• Developing components
• Clientlibs
• pom.xml
• Logging
• Dispatcher cache issues
• Maven

There are some online mockup tests inorder to test your preparation. All the very best.