Ankur Ahlawat Completes AEM Sites Architect & AWS Cloud Practitioner Certifications

There's always lots of good stuff happening at Hoodoo Digital.  We are pleased to announce that Ankur Ahlawat has completed the Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect certification and the Amazon Web Service (AWS) exam for the Cloud Practitioner certification. 

The AEM Architect exam certifies that he “has proven knowledge and experience to help clients optimize the value of their Adobe solution.” Adobe provides an exam guide that outlines the things that an Architect should be proficient with in order to pass the exam. 

Adobe Experience Manager Architect Exam Guide 

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become certified as an AEM Architect at least 3 years of experience architecting AEM Sites. The AEM Architect is responsible for designing technical aspects of the AEM platform and optimally leveraging the product features. Familiarity with the following tasks, technologies, and environments: 

• Design a software change process for customers (on-prem and cloud) 
• Define a content model for content/assets that can accommodate future requirements 
• Defines the necessary templates and components based on business requirements 
• Identify when to use out-of-the-box/functionality/core components versus custom components 
• Design caching, load balancing and security strategies (dispatcher, firewall, CDN,) 
• Provide high-level effort estimations for initial set up and feature delivery 
• Establish the function and use cases of internationalization 
• Define strategies to support multi-site and multi-language 
• Determine correct configuration mechanisms for software modules 
• Integrate 3rd party and Adobe products with AEM 
• Define migration and upgrade strategies (products and content) 
• Understand deployment methodologies (content and code) 
• Create and deliver infrastructure/deployment diagrams 
• Determine information models to use with AEM applications 
• Define authentication and authorization security models and concepts 
• Determine persistence models based on customers’ requirements (e.g., binary storage, deployment scenario etc.) 
• Design workflow models for business processes 
• Establish strategies for platform performance and penetration/security testing 
• Reuse content across multiple channels 
• Account for cloud-focused considerations, such as: Auto-scaling, Replication, Asset management, the implications and differences between on-premises and managed services, Cloud Manager, Package management 

The AWS Cloud Practitioner exam demonstrates an overall understanding of the AWS Cloud, independent of specific technical roles addressed by other AWS Certifications. AWS provides exam guides that outline the things that a Practitioner should be proficient with in order to pass the exam. 

Abilities Validated by the Certification 

• Define what the AWS Cloud is and the basic global infrastructure 
• Describe basic AWS Cloud architectural principles 
• Describe the AWS Cloud value proposition 
• Describe key services on the AWS platform and their common use cases (for example, compute and analytics) 
• Describe basic security and compliance aspects of the AWS platform and the shared security model 
• Define the billing, account management, and pricing models 
• Identify sources of documentation or technical assistance (for example, whitepapers or support tickets) 
• Describe basic/core characteristics of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud 

Recommended Knowledge and Experience 

• We recommend candidates have at least six months of experience with the AWS Cloud in any role, including technical, managerial, sales, purchasing, or financial 
• Candidates should have a basic understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud platform 

We asked Ankur why he wanted to pass these certifications and his response was: “I love to learn new technologies and the best way to test my learning is to get certified. It helps me to validate my skill set with latest product functionality. Getting certified in different areas and versions helps me a lot in testing my knowledge about the latest product features.” 

Ankur is an AEM Architect and has been with Hoodoo Digital since January of 2022. He has worked on AEM since the CQ5 days. Ankur is knowledgeable about so many Adobe suite products including but not limited to AEM Sites, Headless AEM, AEM Assets, Adobe Target, Workfront Connector, and many more. His passion for solutions and code quality drives him toward excellence, and his experience being part of Adobe hackathons, and many other competitions, have given him the insights to understand the products better. We are very proud of his hard work in completing the certification and are so glad to have him part of the Hoodoo team. 

Does your implementation partner have dedicated team members certified by AWS to be experts in their field? 

We do. We’re hoodoo.