Shivani Garg Completes AEM Sites Business Practitioner, DevOps, and Architect Certifications

There's always lots of good stuff happening at Hoodoo Digital. We are pleased to announce that Shivani Garg has completed the Adobe Certified Expert exams for Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner, Adobe Experience Manager Sites DevOps, and Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect certifications. These exams certify that she “has proven knowledge and experience to help clients optimize the value of their Adobe solution.”  Adobe provides exam guides that outline the things that they should be proficient with in order to pass the exam(s).

Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner Exam Guide

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become certified as an AEM Sites Business Practitioner has experience with AEM features and capabilities needed to engage developers to find business solutions. They should be able to use AEM products to manage content to drive digital experiences, have an understanding of what modules are present, and have a deeper insight into modules such as Sites, Assets, and Forms. The candidate should be familiar with the following technologies and environments:

• Content Management tool
• Digital Asset Management tool
• Projects
• Forms
• Experience Fragments and Content Fragments
• Screens
• Workflows
• Launches
• CRXDE Lite
• User Administration
• Multi-site Management
• Monitoring tools
• Versioning
• Personalization and Context Hub
• SPA Editor
• Tagging
• Browser Usage
• General understanding of the Web
• Responsive web design concepts

Adobe Experience Manager Sites DevOps Exam Guide

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become certified as an Adobe Experience Manager DevOps Engineer has at least one year of experience using and configuring Adobe Cloud Manager, as well as at least two years of experience configuring, implementing, and managing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tasks. The candidate should be comfortable working in Adobe Managed Services and Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service, and should be able to set up Adobe Experience Manager environments and infrastructure. Familiarity with the following technologies and environments:

• Cloud Manager
• Adobe IO CLI
• Git CLI
• Cloud transition tools
• Dispatcher convertor
• Repository modernizer
• Dev staging and production
• Dev sandbox
• Local environment

Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect Exam Guide

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become certified as an AEM Architect has 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

We asked Shivani why she wanted to pass these certifications and her response was: “I chose to get certified because I wanted to test my knowledge in my domain and area of expertise. It is also a way to keep myself updated on the latest evolutions in Adobe technologies.”

Shivani is an AEM Architect and has been with Hoodoo Digital since September of 2020. As an AEM Architect II, Shivani has been an integral part of the team supporting, analyzing, and implementing Adobe Workfront + AEM integrations. We are very proud of her hard work in completing the certifications and are so glad to have her as part of the Hoodoo team. 

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