Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Tips for passing Salesforce B2B Commerce Developer Certification

Motivation behind this


Today morning (22nd July,2020), I have successfully passed B2B Commerce Developer certification. Now a days, there will be lot of opportunities on B2B Commerce space which motivates me to learn this.

I tried earlier last month, but I have failed because there were lack of guidance on this exam. Today I have tried again and successfully passed.

I thought of sharing my preparation and experience which might help aspirants to pass this exam and will not face the pain which I have gone through.

Exam Outline


  • Prerequisite: There are no prerequisites for taking this exam (though I suggest to have B2B Commerce Administration knowledge and Certification first before trying)
  • Exam Format: 50 multiple-choice questions
  • Time allotted to complete the exam: 90 minutes
  • Passing score: 70%
  • Registration fee: 200 USD
  • Delivery options: Online proctored or onsite proctored delivery. 
  • Results: Provided immediately after exam submission as on-screen text and by email

I have given around one and half months time frame to learn and pass this exam.


Preparation

  • Fortunately, today Salesforce has uploaded B2B 201 Developer Training guided path at partner portal. Be sure to refer those which I have badly missed during my preparation, after passing exam I have found those (hyperlink provided):
          Here is the screenshot of Deck Videos:


  • Recommended resource: Cloudcraze wiki
  • Technical Documentation: CloudCraze Technical Documentation
  • Getting a org, since I am working for Salesforce ISV Partner so got an org to explore on this. You can install B2B Commerce package at your Developer Edition to explore it.
  • Install package from this Link

B2B Commerce Architecture (high level)


Photo has been taken from Salesforce Document (click to maximize)

B2B Commerce Pages


Photo has been taken from CloudCraze Technical Documentation (click to maximize)

Topics to Consider for Exam


I have categorized the topics as follows:
  • Technology Stack: Bootstrap, handlebars, jQuery, BACKBONE.js, Apex Controller & Hooks, Logic Classes and Service Classes API
  • Salesforce Community, Setting up StoreFront, different components and configurations of CCAdmin
  • Configuring Theme: 
    • Loading static resource and configuring at CCAdmin.
    • The objects where themes can be defined.
  • Extending UI with template
  • Page Include: What are the configurations needed for Page Include.
  • Check different scenarios as to when to refresh the Configuration cache
  • Subscriber Template: What are the configurations needed for Subscriber template.
  • HandleBar template override
  • Subscriber Page: Main elements like CC Subscriber Page Name, Page Key, Page Include etc. and check for the scenarios to create subscriber page.
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  • Global APIs:
    • Request Data from API
    • Data Sizing
    • Versioning
    • Skipping related queries and associate queries
    • map-in/map-out structure of APIs
    • REST Wrapper
    • Refer my prepare flow for understanding

  • Use for Data Service Layers
    • Querying and transforming data
    • Data Service Providers: buildQuery, getFieldsMap, getFilterMap etc
    • Extending data service provider like CCServiceProduct (for example, creating a new field and that's need to shown on Product Detail Page)
  • Call Context: It provides standard interface for current user, storefront activity.
    • Read its methods init, initRemoteContext
  • Debugging Mechanism
    • Best practices using CCLog
    • Debug on JavaScript
    • Using handlebars
    • Where to put CCLog.log statement
    • Custom Console Logging
  • Read about use of Remote action and Events (pubsub)
  • Scenarios on implementing Logic Service Provider
  • Scenarios on creating new Payment Type
  • Use of Global Extension Points like cc_hk_Menu, cc_hk_Invoice, cc_api_CartExtension etc.
Hope, it will help you to prepare for this exam.

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