Magento certification

 Magento Developer Certification landing page has a nice little PDF file called Certified Developer Exam: Self Assessment Checklist. It outlines the certification program which comprises of two levels:

• Magento Certified Developer (MCD)
• Magento Certified Developer Plus (MCD Plus), has an additional 20 questions

Questions are based on Magento Community Edition Magento Enterprise Edition. Surprisingly there is a detailed outline of 10 specific areas that exam covers, all you need to do is to study it.

1. Basics (5%)
2. Request Flow (7%)
3. Rendering (8%)
4. Working with Database in Magento (12%)
5. Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) Model (10%)
6. Adminhtml (8%)
7. Catalog (10%)
8. Checkout (15%)
9. Sales and Customers (12%)
10. Advanced features (13%)

Check the document for details.
In a nutshell that’s it for now. Grab your Magento installations, some coffee, and run trough outlined exam areas if you are interested in taking exam. I must say, it does not look like it’s going to be easy. Regardless of your experience, Magento is still a large platform, meaning lot of terrain to cover so get prepared:)
Cheers.