SAP Commerce Cloud

Developer Certification Preparation

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What to expect

§ A general introduction to the certification exam.

§ A brief guide to better understand the scope of the certification exam.

§ Doesn’t cover detailed content in the official SAP Commerce Cloud Developer trainings: e.g. C4H340 and
C4H341 (part of the recommended preparation to pass the certification exam).

§ This live session is NOT a requirement to successfully pass the SAP Commerce Cloud Developer
Certification.

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Agenda

§ General Introduction
§ All Topics Walkthrough
§ Further Resources

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General Introduction
 General information

• Check the Home Page of

SAP Certified Development Professional - SAP Commerce Cloud Developer

• Acquire knowledge required for the certification by attending the following trainings:
• C4H340 - SAP Commerce Cloud Developer Part 1 (formerly HY400)
• C4H341 - SAP Commerce Cloud Developer Part 2 (formerly HY410)

• Please be aware that:

• The C4H340 and C4H341 trainings are recommended starting point, but they only cover the basics and are not
enough as preparation for the exam, because

• it is the professional level certification (which requires several years of practical on-the-job experience and
addresses real-life scenarios)

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 General Information (continued)
• How to book/attend the exam:
1. On-site exam
• scheduled appointment for a specific certification
• at one of SAP's world-wide training centers (e.g. Walldorf, Ratingen, Hamburg, Vienna, Zurich, etc.)
2. Online exam through, for example, a Certification Hub Subscription (SAP Certification in the Cloud)
• 12 months of 24x7 access worldwide
• 6 attempts
• subscription is valid for all certification exams offered by SAP

• Exam consists of 80 questions

• Cut Score: 61% (currently)
• Duration: 180 minutes
• Language: English

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 Important Exam Process and Security Guidelines

• An on-site exam:
• is proctored in person by an exam supervisor
• requires 2 forms of valid identification (not expired)
• at least one government-issued photo ID
• personal items (cell phones, bags, notepads, organizers, etc.) not allowed

• An online exam:
• requires stable internet
• is proctored remotely via Zoom (both webcam and entire desktop)
• requires government-issued photo ID (not expired) via webcam
• is only released by the exam supervisor after checking the exam environment
• requires you to be in a quiet and secure room alone throughout the exam
• you will be asked to rotate your webcam around the room
• only one screen may be active.
• cellphones/tablets and recording devices are forbidden
• requires you use the Questionmark Secure browser to access the exam
• this browser doesn't allow other apps/windows to be active at the same time
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Percentage incidence of each area on certification exam

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 General rules about questions

• Questions
• are simple and objective.
• can be single choice or multiple choice, which will be clearly indicated.

• Multiple-choice questions
• number of correct answers is given as part of the question.
• question is considered correct only if all correct alternatives are selected.
– i.e. multiple-choice questions cannot be partially correct. They are either correct or wrong.

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All Topics Walkthrough
Topic: Platform Basics

15%-20% of exam

Essential knowledge includes:

• Build Framework, Configuration Files (xml & properties)

• Extension: concept & structure (how to create, dependencies)

• Data Modelling (items.xml, type system, deployment, relation/collection, enumeration, etc.)

• Security Management (access rights & restrictions)

• Flexible Search (syntax, API, implementation)

• ImpEx (syntax, how to invoke, scripting support)

• SOA, model objects, interceptors, modelService

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Topic: Platform Features

13-15% of exam

Essential knowledge includes:

• Spring context (web, tenant & global)

• Addons (Concept and implementation)

• Event framework (involved data models & process, special events)

• Cronjob (data models, implementation steps)

• Caching mechanism (framework, eviction policies, configuration possibilities, clustering)

• DTO, Converters & Populators

• Data import via Annotation (@SystemSetup, Patch update)

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Topic: Commerce

15-20% of exam

Essential knowledge includes:

• Search & Navigation Module
• Solr management (concept, backoffice configuration, indexed type, index jobs)
• IndexedProperty, Facet (configuration, range)
• Out-of-the-box features (autosuggestion, autocorrection, keyword redirects, synonyms, stopwords)
• APIs (services, listeners)
• Adaptive Search Module (perspective, search profiles, boost items/rules)
• Promotion & Coupon (promotion engine, rule engine, RAOs & customization, coupon types)
• Pricing mechanism (Price factory, Decouple from Catalogs)
• Cart management (CommerceCartService)
• Relations of Basestore, catalogs and warehouses

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Topic: Customer Experience

12-15% of exam

Essential knowledge includes:

• CMS related data structure (base store, base site, template, page, content slot, component)

• CMS restrictions (concept, types)

• SmartEdit (modes, GUI, out-of-the-box features)

• CMS navigation bars (data models, management)

• Personalization module (concept, data models, commerce customization)

• Composable Storefront (aka. Spartacus) Features & Comparison to ACC storefront

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Topic: Commerce Cloud and Cloud Portal

5-8% of exam

Essential knowledge includes:

• Commerce cloud architecture (cloud vs on-prem)

• Manifest json (configuration)

• Cloud portal GUI (environments, repository, build, deploy, endpoints configuration)

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Topic: Order Management and Customer Services

5%-8% of exam

Essential knowledge includes:

• Basecommerce extension

• Business process (concept, node types, implementation, customization)

• Out-of-the-box order fulfillment process, consignment process

• Order APIs (splitting strategies, cancel, return, refund)

• Assisted Service Module vs. Customer Support Module (features, comparison)

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Topic: PCM

5-8% of exam

Essential knowledge includes:

• PCM data models (Product, Category, Catalog, synchronization management)

• Basic product variants

• Multi-dimensional variants

• Classification system (vs. type system)

• Media management (media, media format, media folder, etc.)

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Topic: Backoffice Framework

5-8% of exam

Essential knowledge includes:

• Backoffice framework (concept, relation to backoffice, orchestrator mode)

• XML files (config.xml, widgets.xml, reset to defaults)

• Widget (concept, implementation, definition.xml)

• Widget communication (sockets, virtual sockets, adapters)

• Dynamic forms

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Topic: Integration

5-8% of exam

Essential knowledge includes:

• Integration API Module
• Cloud Hot Folders
• Webhooks (working principals and limitation)
• Intelligent Selling Services for SAP Commerce Cloud (aka. ISS)

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Further Resources
 If you want more?

• If you haven’t attended any SAP Commerce Cloud Developer Training, we highly recommend attending the
following:
• C4H340: https://training.sap.com/course/c4h340
• C4H341: https://training.sap.com/course/c4h341

• Also useful:
• Live Session Series: “SAP Commerce Cloud – Additional Technical Essentials”
https://blogs.sap.com/2021/07/22/introduction-to-the-live-session-series-sap-commerce-cloud-additional-technical-essentials/
• C4H365 SAP Commerce Cloud Backoffice Framework Developer:
https://training.sap.com/course/c4h365
• C4H370 - Spartacus ILT Developer Training:
https://training.sap.com/course/C4H370
• C4H320 - SAP Commerce Cloud Business User Training:
https://training.sap.com/course/C4H320
• SAP Commerce Cloud - Learning Journey for Developers:
https://help.sap.com/learning-journeys/5009ab8a7a261014b60ce7241ebd605a

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