Magento Certified Solution Specialist Exam Details

Date August 10, 2014 Author By Razvan Mocanu Category Solution Specialist

Magento Certified Solution Specialist Exam consists in about 60 multiple choice questions. The available time to complete the exam is 90 minutes.

The exam is based on Magento Community Edition v.1.8 and Magento Enterprise Edition v.1.13.

The questions are from four different areas:

• eCommerce, about 13% of the questions
• Magento architecture, about 27% of the questions
• Elements of Magento eCommerce site, about 35% of the questions
• Applying Magento knowledge to business goals, about 25% of the questions

Each area contains the following subareas:

1. eCommerce
   1. Online merchandising
   2. System security
   3. User experience and usability
   4. Laws and regulations
   5. System development
2. Magento architecture
   1. Basic elements: Layouts, themes, extension/customization
   2. Magento data models
   3. Magento data flows (typical flow of data processing)
   4. Difference between Magento Enterprise Edition (EE) and Magento Community Edition (CE_
3. Elements of Magento eCommerce site
   1. Catalog
   2. Shopping cart
   3. Payment
   4. Shipping
   5. Checkout (features, flow, taxes)
   6. Order processing
   7. Cookies
   8. Security
   9. Extensions
   10. Customization
   11. Customers (segments, groups)
   12. Promotions and pricing rules
   13. Import / export (of customers, orders, products)
4. Applying Magento knowledge to business goals
   1. Mapping client needs to Magento features
   2. Recommending the most effective options for implementing client requirements in Magento

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