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Domain 1.0: Fundamental Web Development Concepts

1.1. Demonstrate knowledge of HTML and CSS
1.2. Identify Javascript and jQuery programing concepts
1.3. Demonstrate the use of Git for version control

Study Guide
  • Review HOWTO.css
  • Read "HTML5 Enterprise Application Development"
  • Read "Learning PHP" and do exercises
  • Review JavaScript/JQuery/PHP sections in raynaldmo.github.io
  • Review jsbin exercises

Domain 2.0: Site Building

2.1 Demonstrate ability to create and configure Content Types with appropriate fields and field settings for building basic data structures
2.2 Demonstrate ability to configure Display Modes for building custom form and view modes for core entities
2.3 Demonstrate ability to create and use Taxonomy vocabularies and terms for classification and organization of content
2.4 Demonstrate ability to configure Block types, manage Blocks library and configure Block layouts
2.5 Demonstrate ability to build main and alternative navigation systems by using Menus
2.6 Demonstrate ability to create and configure Views for building content list pages, blocks and feeds
2.7 Demonstrate ability to use Configuration Management capabilities for exporting site configurations
2.8 Demonstrate ability to build multilingual websites using core multilingual capabilities
2.9 Demonstrate ability to build RESTful web application using core Web Services capabilities

Study Guide

TBD

Domain 3.0: Front end development (theming)

3.1 Given a scenario, demonstrate ability to create a custom theme or sub theme.
3.2 Demonstrate knowledge of theming concepts
3.3 Demonstrate ability to use Twig syntax
3.4 Demonstrate ability to build or override Twig templates for defining layout content
3.5 Demonstrate ability to write template pre-process functions for overriding custom output

Study Guide

TBD

Domain 4.0: Back end development (coding)

4.1 Demonstrate ability to write code using core and Object Oriented PHP
4.2 Demonstrate ability to develop Custom Modules using Drupal API for extending Drupal functionality
4.3 Demonstrate ability to store and retrieve data using code
4.4 Demonstrate ability to work with other essential APIs
4.5 Demonstrate ability to write code using Drupal Coding Standards
4.6 Demonstrate ability to analyze and resolve site performance issues arising from site configuration or custom code
4.7 Demonstrate ability to analyze and resolve security issues arising from site configuration or custom code

Study Guide

TBD

Resources