Exam name: Acquia Certified Site Builder – Drupal 8
Exam Duration: 75 minutes
Exam Price: $155
Exam length: 50 questions
Pass/Fail mark: 68%
(subject to change)
Introduction
The Acquia Certified Drupal 8 Site Builder is a credential intended for professionals who build Drupal sites using core and contributed modules. This exam is designed to validate skills and knowledge of a Drupal Site Builder. This test focuses on knowledge of Drupal 8 and topic areas including Drupal features, content and user management, content modeling, site display, community and contributed projects, module and theme management, security and performance.
This exam validates a candidate’s ability to:
Plan, build, and manage Drupal 8-based solutions.
Understand the core Drupal practices for site building.
Develop and maintain applications using Drupal site building tools.
Install and configure new Drupal modules and themes.
The basic knowledge and skills required at this level should include all of the following areas and objective components.
Drupal
Professional experience using Drupal
Setup and configure Drupal sites
Model content architectures
Manage Drupal content and users
Install and configure contributed Drupal modules and themes
Web and IT Knowledge
Experience in developing Drupal websites and web applications
HTML
Basic CSS, JavaScript/jQuery knowledge
Basic PHP knowledge
These training courses or other equivalent methodologies will assist in exam preparation:
Drupal documentation http://drupal.org/documentation
Acquia training courses (http://training.acquia.com/track/drupal-8)
Domains
Note: This exam blueprint includes topics /domains and test objectives to help guide the test taker. They should not be construed as a comprehensive listing of all of the content of this examination.
The table below lists the domains measured by this examination and the extent to which they are represented.
Domain |
Number of Questions |
1.0 Understanding Drupal |
3 |
2.0 Working with a Drupal site |
10 |
3.0 Content modeling |
12 |
4.0 Site display |
6 |
5.0 Site configuration |
7 |
6.0 Community and contributed projects |
4 |
7.0 Module and theme management |
4 |
8.0 Security and performance |
4 |
TOTAL |
50 |
Note: This exam blueprint includes topics /domains and test objectives to help guide the test taker. They should not be construed as a comprehensive listing of all of the content of this examination.
Test Format:
Test item formats used in this examination are:
Multiple-choice: Examinee selects one option that best answers the question or completes a statement.
Multiple-response: Examinee selects more than one option that best answers the question or completes a statement.
Content
1.0: Understanding Drupal
1.1. Demonstrate the ability to explain the distinct and differentiating features of Drupal.
1.2. Demonstrate the understanding of Drupal jargon and terminology.
2.0: Working with a Drupal site.
2.1 Given a scenario, determine how administration tools are used for site management.
2.2 Given a scenario, demonstrate ability to configure user accounts.
2.3 Given a scenario of a completed content item, identify which elements are taxonomy terms, image fields or text fields.
2.4 Given an example of a page layout, determine what is content versus a block.
2.5 Demonstrate an ability to troubleshoot problems related to content, configuration and maintenance.
3.0: Content modeling
3.1 Demonstrate ability to model content using content types and vocabularies.
3.2 Demonstrate ability to configure and manage comment types and comments.
3.3 Demonstrate ability to configure and manage block types and blocks.
3.4 Demonstrate ability to configure and manage contact forms.
3.5 Demonstrate ability to configure and use multilingual content and interface.
3.6 Demonstrate ability to configure and manage menus, menu items and menu blocks.
4.0: Site display
4.1 Demonstrate the ability to control the display of content across various regions of the site using the block system.
4.2 Demonstrate the ability to provide different presentations of content entities (like nodes, comments, user profiles, terms, etc.) for editing or viewing.
4.3 Demonstrate the ability to to create, manage and display lists of content using Drupal views.
5.0: Site configuration
5.1 Demonstrate the ability to use the various options related to site configuration like account settings, content authoring, development, search, site and system settings, media.
5.2 Demonstrate the ability to use the configuration and synchronization options to import, export, compare configuration across environments.
6.0: Community and contributed projects
6.1 Given a scenario, identify when a contributed module would be needed.
6.2 Given example project data, evaluate the health of projects.
6.3 Identify ways of community participation.
6.4 Demonstrate knowledge of how to report issues against either core or contributed modules.
7.0: Module and theme management
7.1 Demonstrate the ability to add, update, and remove contributed modules.
7.2 Demonstrate the ability to add, update, and remove contributed themes.
8.0: Security and performance
8.1 Identify security issues resulting from site configuration.
8.2 Identify performance issues resulting from site configuration