Will I be able to take this exam? How difficult or easy can it get as it’s a completely new product to the Sitecore world? Am I the only one freaking out? Will notes and tasks from Sitecore CDP deep dive training would suffice? These are all questions I found myself asking when preparing to take the new Sitecore CDP and Personalize Certification Exam which was released this December.
After completing the exam, however, I can tell you the answer to all the previous questions is – “Luckily Nope, it was not that difficult at all and Deep dive training did help a lot !!!”
While studying for the exam, I had to go through multiple documentation links and resources – so today I am here to share my experience and what I wish I knew before becoming a CDP certified.
Exam Format and Competencies
Similar to other Sitecore certifications, CDP Certification is also a multi-choice exam proctored through Webassessor. You would be presented with 30 questions and in order to earn certification, you would need to score at least 80% (24 questions must be answered correctly).
Competencies expected includes :
- Sitecore CDP and Personalize Platform
- Solution Design
- Integrations
- Experiences
- Performance Management
- Operational Maintenance
Topics /Areas of CDP
Below are the areas of CDP which I think definitely helped me for passing the exam. However, these are quick notes and probably will be an entry point for a new blog in the future. Questions that show up in the exam would be based on practical scenarios.
- Guest Types: Understand different types of guest types (Visitor, Traveller, Customer) and how CDP differentiates them.
- Segments: How to create it, whats use of segments, different status of segments, and importance of each status.
- Sitecore CDP :
- Behavioral Data or timeline-based – Focus on sessions and events fired, how they are fired and when they are fired
- Transactional Data – Orders and guests.
- Data Storage – Cookies and Local Storage
- All cookies created by CDP and the role they play
- Decision Model :
- Best Practices / Performance guidelines( Guidelines Doc)
- Knowledge Sources and importance.
- Relation between Offers and Offer template
- Relation between Knowledge source and Offer
- DM Variant States
- look into what you can and cannot do in each state
- Experiences and Experiments:
- Think and learn about when would each of the experiences namely web, full-stack or flows will/can be used in practical scenarios.
- Experiences VS Experiments differentiation.
- Steps to run web experiment successfully.
- Learn how variant is decided as winner.
- Difference between basic allocation and advanced allocation.
- Relation between base rate %, Confidence level, and Sample Size to reach conclusion and default values if any.
- How base rate%, confidence level, and sample sizes impact experiment.
- Full Stack experience practical importance
- Difference between Interactive and Triggered Experience.
- How can you test each type of experience? (Shown below)
- API:
- Stream API
- when to use.
- Characteristics of stream API’s
- Batch API
- Why do we use it?
- Authentication
- File format requirements and import process
- Rest API
- Characteristics
- Authentication
- Stream API
- API Response composer:
- How to compose api response.
- using dynamic guest data and passing custom parameters.
- External Connections:
- Data Systems – how and when do you use it.
- Analytical Model – how and when do you use it.
Useful links
- https://neilkillen.com/2021/11/07/sitecore-cdp-tips-and-tricks
- https://sitecorebasics.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/learnings-from-sitecore-cdp-exam
Hope these topics helped. Good luck with the Exam 🙂
