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Professional Certification Program

Professional Certification Program

The wait is over! Elastic Path Software introduces its Professional Certification Program. We are taking a phased approach to rolling out this program, enabling your organization to start taking advantage and have your personnel certified now. The Professional Certification Program will include certifications for each of the major role types involved in a commerce implementation program such as Development Engineers, Solutions Architects, and Business Analysts. A description of the certification programs currently available are listed below along with a listing of the programs in development. If you require more information on our Professional Certification Program or you would like to discuss in detail training, education, or certification plans for your organization contact the Education Team at education@elasticpath.com .

For additional information, see our Professional Certification FAQ.

Certified Development Professional

The Certified Development Professional program is designed for Software Engineers or Developers who need to understand the Elastic Path data model and make customizations to it and our various products to meet specific project requirements. This program has a tiered approach, enabling the various levels of understanding or exposure to our products to be acknowledged. Certification for this program is achieved on major versions of our product line, enabling a longer lifespan for each certification. A developer seeking certification is certified on the current version and only requires re-certification for new major releases. For information on product changes in minor releases, developers can listen to EPTalks, read version release notes and consume related resources.

Certification is a great way to ensure your personnel's skills and understanding of the Elastic Path commerce platform are up-to-date and relevant.

Certified Development Professional I

The Certified Development Professional I certification program is designed for Developers or Software Engineers who have completed the Developer Learning Path training program on the Elastic Path platform products. It requires detailed knowledge of the code base and experience implementing customizations. With this certification, hands on experience and exercises are completed during the training process; consequently, those certified at this level have demonstrated meeting the objectives of this certification level.

Certification objectives:
  • Understanding the data model, user interface, and integration points
  • Develop customizations within Core Commerce and the Cortex API
  • Development lifecycle from development to testing and have knowledge of the available environments
It is important to understand those attending the Developer Learning Path training program who want to obtain certification must adhere to the following standards:
  • Attend all classroom sessions for each course in the training program
  • Participate in classroom exercises
  • Receive a passing mark for each of the training classroom sessions based on attendance and extercise participation

Certified Development Professional II

The Certified Development Professional II certification program is currently in development. This advanced level certification program involves completion of a time-limited closed book examination. The examination is designed for developers or software engineers who have a working knowledge of the Elastic Path platform or products and are able to apply this knowledge to real life scenarios.. Completing the Certified Development Professional I certification prior to attempting this certification exam is recommended. Those attempting to write the exam are given 1 hour to complete and are limited to 2 attempts at passing. Those completing the Certified Development Professional II program have the knowledge and understanding required to be effective and efficient in working with Elastic Path Commerce Integration Platform products.

Those completing this program are able to:
  • Understand how to extend the data model
  • Understand the various integration points and options available, the user interface, and the integration points for the platform
  • Develop customizations within core commerce and the Cortex API
  • Understand of Elastic Path product best practices

Certified Solutions Architect Professional

This program is in development.

Certified Business Analyst Professional

This program is in development.

Note: Certificates

Certificates are available for download upon completion of any certification program in the Elastic Path Learning Center