Magento 2 Associate Developer Certificate notes

1. Basics of Magento Architecture & Customization Techniques

• 1.1 Magento module-based architecture
• 1.2 Magento directory structure
• 1.3 Configuration XML & Variables scope
• 1.4 Dependency injection
• 1.5 Event observer
• 1.6 CLI

2. Request Flow Procedures

• 2.1 Magento modes
• 2.2 Frontend Controller
• 2.3 URL Rewrites

3. Customizing Magento UI

• 3.1 Magento Themes UI
• 3.2 Magento UI Customizations of blocks and templates
• 3.3 Block types
• 3.4 Magento Layout XML

4. Working with Database in Magento

• 4.1 Basic concepts of models, resource models, collections
• 4.2 Load and save an entity from a database
• 4.3 Magento sort, filters and specify the selected values for collections and repositories
• 4.4 Install/Upgrade scripts in Magento
• 4.5 DDL class in setup scripts

5. Developing with adminhtml

• 5.1 Controller for admin router
• 5.2 Magento cache
• 5.3 Magento configurations XML, scopes
• 5.4 Magento ACL
• 5.5 Set up a menu item
• 5.6 Magento permissions
• 5.7 Magento extensions, the different types of extension available (Community, Core, Commercial)
• 5.8 Installation and configuration process in Magento

6. Customizing Magento Business logic

• 6.1 Product Types in Magento (simple, configurable, bundled, etc.)
• 6.2 Category properties in Magento
• 6.3 Category relations in Magento
• 6.4 Product types behavior in shopping cart
• 6.5 Shipment functionality in Magento
• 6.6 My account section
• 6.7 Customize my account section
• 6.8 Customer’s attributes
• 6.9 Customer address