Section 2: Magento Architecture (22%)

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Section 2: Magento Architecture (22%)

2.1 Demonstrate ability to design a Cloud solution

What are the benefits and drawbacks of on-premise vs. Cloud? How do you move to Cloud? How does Cloud influence project development? What features are only available on Cloud? What are the differences between Starter and Pro plans?

2.2 Demonstrate understanding of key concepts of Magento architecture

Architecture in Magento 2 – What is it and how is it used in Magento Commerce?

What are the benefits and costs of database sharding? What is the Varnish Full Page Cache and why is it better than the built in FPC?

What are the basic responsibilities of templates and layouts in Magento 2? What are the basic steps for extending Magento 2 functionality with a code change or a third-party extension?

How can the site design be configured using the options found in the Admin UI under System > Design > Configuration?

2.3 Demonstrate knowledge of how to use the Magento API for integrating with third-party systems

What types of API does Magento Commerce have? What are the intended use cases for the different API types? What are the pros and cons of each type?

What methods of authentication do the Magento 2 APIs support?

Demonstrate the ability to manage credentials for the Magento API

2.4 Demonstrate ability to design and administer websites, stores, store views

What are use cases for product attributes scopes?

What is the effect of Website, Store, and Store View configuration scopes?

Understand display of product catalogs in websites, stores, and store views

Understand administration of websites, stores, and store views

Understand localization taxes and pricing in websites, stores, and store views

2.5 Demonstrate understanding of the differences between Magento editions

What are the main differences between Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce? What features are available only on Magento Commerce? (Commerce, Open Source, and B2B)

Differences between Magento 2 Commerce, Magento 2 Commerce Cloud, and Magento 2 Open Source

Advantages of Magento Commerce, Magento Commerce Cloud, Magento Open Source

Staging and previewing

Payment methods in Magento 2 Commerce

Customer attributes and segments in Magento 2 Commerce

Full page cache and indexing differences between editions

All other differences between Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce

2.6 Demonstrate ability to identify infrastructure requirements for a Magento project

What are the infrastructure elements of a typical Magento installation (database, search, CDN, cache, sessions, etc.)?

2.7 Demonstrate ability to configure the Magento storefront functionality

How are cookies used in Magento?

What must be done to configure cookies on multisite Magento implementations?

What is static content signing?