In February
2015 we had an onsite Training with almost 10 developers in Baden / Switzerland
at Infocentrics great new creative space. The rooms are awesome and a perfect
place for trainings. See here.
Julian
Bagdahn from Sitecore Germany gave us excellent introduction of Sitecore CMS
7.2. The emphasis is on the word introduction or let’s say overview. Sitecore CMS
became a huge monster with tons of functionality and features. For example the
web.config is approx. 3500 lines big. In Sitecore CMS version 7.2 lucene search
was added that also brought a huge benefit for enterprise CMS applications.
Course Content and Material
We pasted Topics
like Sitecore API, Advanced Presentation Concepts, Page Editor Config,
Marketing Functionalities covered in Sitecore DMS (= Digital Marketing Suite).
There were also a section called real world solution and practicable topics
e.g. recommended Practices. The Sitecore training material is great. We got all
the slides that were presented. We worked with 2 Sitecore solutions provided by
Sitecore far before the training. A travel agency solution for bikes, and a
blank 7.2. Also after every chapter we were asked questions that helped to
check if we understood the chapter main learnings.
Conclusion:
All of us
passed the exam. Here are the sections and parts of my results. No guatantee!
WND_Advanced_Presentation_Concepts
No
incorrect answers in this section
WND_Configuring_Page_Editor
Custom
Experience buttons are added to the toolbar that shows in the Page Editor when
the editor selects…
I think
the correct answer was that a component or a field will bring up the buttons.
WND_Dealing_with_Data
No
incorrect answers in this section
WND_Items_Items_Items
No
incorrect answers in this section
WND_Marketing_Functionality
No
incorrect answers in this section
WND_Presentation
What is
the use of a Sitecore Placeholder Web Control on a Layout?
Only Dynamic
binding should be the right answer.
WND_Real_World_Solutions
No
incorrect answers in this section
WND_Recommended_Practices
Why
would you create the Visual Studio solution outside the webroot?
Visual
Studio solution becomes more portable when you put them outside the webroot.
Use the deploy feature of VS to copy files to webroot automatically.
WND_SitecoreAPI
No
incorrect answers in this section
Sitecore
Overview
No incorrect answers in this
section
After even
10 Sitecore projects a learned a lot and found spots where we can improve. I
can recommend this Sitecore training. It will boost your development time and
hopefully improve your code quality.
Mind the gap
“Don’t
fight the framework!”
“Think
about Standard values”
“Never use
Security disabler, use Security switcher!”
Good luck
for the exam and happy learning.
We are
looking forward to the Sitecore 8 certification in Sep. 2015.
Wanna join?
Drop me a
mail.
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