How did I prepare for Acquia Certified Developer - Back End Specialist Exam

Recently I have cleared Acquia Certified Developer - Back End Specialist exam. Your real life experience, with Drupal, definitely comes handy while taking the exam.


To prepare for this exam, I have gone through following video series on drupalize.me,

Module Development for Drupal 7

This series will cover most of the things (Domain 2.0: Drupal core API, Domain 3.0: Database Abstraction Layer, Domain 4.0: Debug code and troubleshooting, Domain 5.0: Theme Integration, Domain 6.0: Performance, Domain 7.0: Security) mentioned in the Exam Blueprint.

Note: If you don't have access to Video series then you may like to go through most of the chapters in the book Pro Drupal 7 Development, Third Edition.


There are following things which are not part of the above video series,

2.1 Demonstrate an ability to register paths to define how URL requests are handled in Drupal using hook_menu_alter

2.3 Demonstrate ability to interact with the Node system using hook_node_*

2.4 Demonstrate ability to interact with the Block system using hook_block_*

2.5 Demonstrate ability to use Core System hooks like hook_boot, hook_init, hook_cron, hook_mail, hook_file*

To cover up the section Domain 8.0: Community, I have contributed few modules to Drupal community. To get started with contribution to Drupal Community, you can go through this link.

With the basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript/jQuery and hands on experience in building few sites with Drupal7 including custom module development, you would be able to clear the exam. Good luck!


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