Why must I take Drupal 8 Certification Exams: Site Builder & Developer
Gung Wang
Even though I have more than 8 years experiences in Drupal (D6 and D7), Drupal 8 is still a brand new platform to me. It is a great opportunity to learn D8 by taking Acquia Drupal 8 Certification Exams. I had passed the Site Builder Exam and Developer Exam in 2018, and will take the exams of Certified Frontend Specialist and Backend Specialist.
I would like share some experiences about how to prepare for Exams of Certificated Site Builder and Certificated Developer.
Topics:
1. What I learned from the Certification.
2. Main points to leaning Drupal 8.
3. Thoughts about Drupal 8 Site Builder Exam.
- Blocks & menus
- Content Entity & Configuration Entity
- Taxonomy & Views
- Display Modes & Form modes
- Comments, Contact Form & Extensions
- User, Role & Permission
- Configuration Synchronization & Content Type
- Multilingual & Performance
- Text Format, Aggregator & Development
- Drupal Community & Recommendation
4. Thoughts about Drupal 8 Developer Exam.
- Fundamental Web Development Concepts
- Advanced Site Building
- Frontend Development (Theming)
- Custom theme & subtheme
- Variable, filter & function in Twig
- How to override Twig templates
- Backend development (PHP coding)
- Object-oriented programming
- Build custom module
- Annotation
- Services & Dependency Injection
- Coding Standards & Performance
- Drupal API: Data storage, DB, Block, Entity, Form, etc.
- Security
- Resources