Exam prerequisites and enrollment
As a general recommendation, we suggest aiming to attempt certification within two months after attending one of our instructor-led training or exam prep sessions.
It's also important to consider any commitments your company, as a signed partner, may have made regarding training and certification. Solution partners usually commit to maintaining a certain number of certified staff.
- The exact date and time of the exam.
- A link to the exam.
- A reminder to adhere to our policies and guidelines.
Exam preparation
A good way to prepare for the certification exam is to:
- Familiarize yourself with commercetools terminology, as well as the structure and content of our documentation pages.
- Study the latest release notes.
- Inform yourself about our offerings and support.
- Practice as much as you can with the material provided by the trainer in the course you attended.
- Re-do all (programming) exercises that you did in class with your trainer.
- Do the relevant online self-learning modules.
- Complete all course quizzes available in our learning management system for the course you attended.
To create the best environment for yourself during the certification exam, we recommend the following:
- Be on time.
- Remind yourself that it's OK to be a bit nervous prior to an exam.
- Have your screen set up in a way that works well for you. You will need quick access to:
- The commercetools documentation website.
- A Composable Commerce Project or your company's composable Frontend project (depending on your exam).
- A development repository (depending on your exam).
- Your notes.
- Close all other windows, programs, and browser tabs.
- Follow our instructions during your exam. You are not allowed to:
- Copy questions into AI tools.
- Retain questions.
- Seek support from any third party.
Exam content and structure
It is 100 minutes inside a pre-scheduled, 120-minute window.
No. You can leave the online meeting once you have completed your attempt.
There are 60 multiple-choice questions.
To pass the exam, you need to obtain a minimum of 80% correct answers.
Each developer certification exam balances theoretical and practical questions. However, functional exams do not include any coding questions.
Yes. In case the question has multiple correct answers and you have selected only some correct options, but not all, you will get partial points.
Yes. If the question has multiple correct answers, choosing an incorrect option will get you partial negative points.
Exam costs and attempts
- A first (learning) exam attempt.
- A certification test review session in case the learning attempt is not successful.
- A second exam attempt.
If you fail your second attempt, you will need to pay the cost of the certification again to obtain further attempts. Depending on your result, it might be advisable to also reattend a training session.
Exam policies and rules
Yes, commercetools uses live proctoring to ensure the integrity of the certification process. To take part in the exam, you will be required to join a Zoom meeting.
Yes, our exams are open book and we encourage you to consult the publicly available reference documentation for our products. In addition, you can use your own written material and notes. Using chatbots, AI tools, or getting any kind of support from other people is prohibited.
The commercetools AI Assistant and any other AI tools are prohibited during the certification exam. We closely monitor the use of the AI Assistant during exam times, and if we find that you used it during the exam, your attempt will be considered a failed attempt.
Keep in mind that the actual exam questions and answer options are under strict commercetools copyright. Recording, storing, copying, and taking screenshots of them is strictly prohibited. This includes temporarily copying the literal text into other software, including commercetools provided or other recommended tools.
If you lose your internet connection during the exam, your answers that have already been entered are automatically saved. However, you will lose time. Ensure your connection is stable before starting the exam. If your connection is lost and not quickly restored, you may need to use your second attempt.
The certification exam is indeed an open-book exam. However, that does not mean that you can ask your colleagues for advice or answers to the questions. You must take the exam on your own.
Exam results and certificates
No, your manager will not be notified of your achievement directly. If your company is a signed partner, they can receive an overview report of all certified staff through their contact at commercetools, regardless of whether you share the information internally.
While we do appreciate the appeal of a traditional exam certificate, we decided to switch to a digital badge system only, which does not include a PDF printout. Instead, you will receive a digital badge that you can display online, showcasing your achievements.
Certification validity and renewal
Your certification is issued for the calendar year in which you obtained it. It is counted towards your employer's certification count until October of the following year. You have until then to renew the exam. The renewal exam, which requires self-study, can be taken online and is free of charge.
You have to renew your certification yearly through our renewal exam, which is open from March to October. Don’t miss the October deadline to renew the previous year's certifications! We suggest taking them as early in the year as possible.
Yes. You will get a new badge after renewing your certification. The badge will state the calendar year that the renewal was taken in.
The renewal exam includes self-learning modules designed to update you on the newest content released in the past year.