Acquia Front End Specialist Certification Study Group

I mentioned this at the last user group meeting and during Module Monday. Time to push it forward, so here is the information from the Acquia Website at https://www.acquia.com/customer-success/learning-services/acquia-certifi....

Some reference materials for studying were posted in a blog post at http://www.tanay.co.in/blog/cracking-acquia-certified-developer-front-en... that should be a useful resource.

Content

Domain 1.0: Fundamental Web Development Concepts

1.1. Demonstrate knowledge of HTML and CSS
1.2. Identify PHP programing concepts
1.3. Identify JavaScript and jQuery programing concepts

Domain 2.0: Theming Concepts

2.1 Demonstrate ability to define and use custom regions in a theme
2.2 Demonstrate ability to work with Theme Settings
2.3 Demonstrate knowledge of working with Stylesheets
2.4 Demonstrate knowledge of working with Javascript in a theme

Domain 3.0: Sub-theming Concepts

3.1 Demonstrate ability to build a sub-theme from a base theme
3.2 Demonstrate ability to work with templates and pre-process functions in a sub-theme

Domain 4.0: Templates

4.1 Demonstrate ability to build and customize core templates for managing markup
4.2 Demonstrate ability to work with template suggestions

Domain 5.0: Template Functions

5.1 Demonstrate ability to use theme() functions for overriding custom output
5.2 Demonstrate ability to write template pre-process functions for overriding custom output

Domain 6.0: Layout Configuration

6.1 Demonstrate ability to configure field display and view modes for content types
6.2 Demonstrate ability to create and configure Blocks for building layouts
6.3 Demonstrate ability to create and configure Views for building content list pages, blocks and feeds

Domain 7.0: Performance

7.1 Demonstrate ability to analyze and resolve site performance issues arising from site configuration
7.2 Demonstrate ability to analyze and resolve security issues arising from site custom code

Domain 8.0: Security

8.1 Demonstrate ability to analyze and resolve security issues arising from site configuration
8.2 Demonstrate ability to analyze and resolve security issues arising from site custom theme

If we assume roughly an hour per sub domain element (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 7.2, etc) that's 20 hours of study. Given I am in Albany from December 29 through January 15, I'd like all the meetings to be in that range. To accomplish that I think a couple of evenings a week for about 2 hours and a couple of half day sessions of 4 hours will make 20 hours.

I'll post a poll (or two?) to ask about preferences of dates and times.

I would assume that most people might not attend all the sessions, it is a big commitment, so we should try to keep them as self contained as possible.

And hopefully we have some people willing to step up and help lead/teach sections.

And we'll have to find a location to host some or all of the sessions since I think we have more interest than a table at Starbucks we originally assumed.

Sound like a plan?