Amit Goyal

In Dec 2015, I have cleared Acquia Certified Developer - Front 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 http://drupalize.me , Theming Basics for Drupal 7 Series Advanced Theming for Drupal 7 Series   Theming Views This series will cover most of the things (Domain 2.0: Theming Concepts, Domain 3.0: Sub-theming Concepts, Domain 4.0: Templates, Domain 5.0: Template Functions, Domain 6.0: Layout Configuration, Domain 7.0: Performance, Domain 8.0: 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 links in the themery guide . With the basic knowledge of HTML , CSS and Javascript/jQuery and hands on experience in building few sites with Drupal7 including custom theme (templates not css) development, you would be able to clear th...

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 Dem...

Recently I have cleared Acquia Certified Drupal Site Builder exam. Your real life experience, with Drupal, definitely comes handy while taking the exam. I am a big fan of Drupal learning video sites specially https://drupalize.me and http://buildamodule.com/. Luckily I got free access to these sites as my company has subscription to these sites. To prepare for this exam, I saw following video series on drupalize.me, Site Building with Drupal 7 Series Intro to Fields for Site Builders Series Intro to Views for Drupal 7 Series Image Styles Series These video series will cover most of the things. If you don't have access to these sites then you can go through Tanay's blog post which says that you can install Administration menu module on Drupal 7 site and go through each and every link to learn more about it. Hands on experience is very important so make sure to build couple of sites using Drupal core + Views modules without writing any custom code. Goo...