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Sitecore OrderCloud exam tips & tricks

 


Hi Team,

Recently i appeared for OrderCloud certification exam and though everything is available on the OrderCloud web portal Platform Overview | Sitecore OrderCloud & on Sitecore e-Learning portal, but what i want to share is some ideas of what kind of questions or what is the pattern of questions and what is the best way to prepare for this exam

Amazing documentation of OrderCloud 

First and foremost is the documentation available on  Platform Overview | Sitecore OrderCloud itself, but when you first start studying you will be overwhelmed with the information available on the portal, It will be little more to digest if you do not have any commerce background (Commerce i mean e-commerce way of working buyer, seller, products, catalog, shipping, fulfillment, Basically if you use any of the online shopping site you already know what i am talking about, but here you will be thinking as a developer and not the buyer, because we want to build something in OrderCloud).

Sitecore e-Learning module

As you feel overwhelmed with the information available on the OrderCloud portal, that is where Sitecore e-learning comes in, Personally what i felt is, it gives us steps by step reading material of competencies which are needed to work in Sitecore, It is like instead of reading a full book, someone is giving you the index of the pages to go through flow by flow and that will make more sense as you browse through them, I personally had amazing support of our team mates who already had this guidelines defined for us by Vignesh C , Brijesh Patel , Deepak Kumar , Pratik Satukunvar , So i already had lot of info where to start and plan my exam and schedules, so this blog is for those who are looking for some more info about exam.

So basically as i said you get something like following on e-Learning

 


which makes more sense competency wise links which you can read through, and believe me, If you refer all the links and sub links inside the main links and read through all the material, you are just done, it has everything to prepare for exam, and kudos to the OrderCloud team of getting such an amazing details still concise documentation out there, In very simple terminology.

In a nutshell, you will need to prepare for following competencies, this information is already available on e-Learning site and on Sitecore

  • Competency 1: OrderCloud Architecture and Conventions 
  • Competency 2: Integration 
  • Competency 3: User Management and Access Control 
  • Competency 4: Environments 
  • Competency 5: Product Management 
  • Competency 6: Order and Fulfillment Management 
  • Competency 7: Troubleshooting

My personal experience of type of questions that i got in exam

I will not talk about how to register for exam or how to do other things of setting up a machine or taking it up from the center, as that information is already available, what i want to talk about is what you should be closely following in the OrderCloud guide 

Make sure you do hands onto OrderCloud API console available for free for trial

There will be questions in the exams about certain aspects of the UI and how to do different things for certain area, so it is very important that you do step by step hands onto OrderCloud portal, You can create your account there and start playing with APIs and Market place, remember e-Learning has those steps and you can do side by side, So you get familiar with the UI and kind of set up it has, Starting from setting up market places, working with market place and buyer, seller set up and API calls of those.

Scenario based questions 

Why it is important to go through full documentation is, there will be scenario based questions, where you will only be able to answer if you know about it, as all options will look correct to you if you do not have gone through the documentation and understood the concept 

OrderCloud has some generalized approach if you are browsing the site as a buyer, or seller or supplier, so context is important factor, in which context you are making the call, and you will be able to answer question related to APIs only if you know this context and details.


API Based questions

It is very obvious if you are appearing for OrderCloud which fully API based and language agnostic, meaning you can write code in any language you know, so It is important for you to go through all API examples given on OrderCloud, You can get scenario based questions from any of the API end point, and if you have not gone through them, all of the options will look same to you, but there will be minor difference and you can only spot if you know about them.


False positive questions

Why reading everything on OrderCloud documentation is important because, you might get questions which might challenge your knowledge about OrderCloud to know what is not available in OrderCloud or what is not correct for OrderCloud, and to point out what is not correct or what is not available, you need to know what is already available, and if you know what is available, you can easily "SPOT THE NOT".

 

I hope this helps and you get your certification, All the very best and feel free to connect with me if you have any questions or concerns

 

NOTE : Above are my personal views from my experiences which i had while giving and preparing for exam.

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