Documentum Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide
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- Technical foundations of the Documentum platform
- Thorough preparation guide for the E20-120 exam
- Complete coverage of the prescribed syllabus
- Illustrated examples and practice questions on each topic
- Two full-length practice tests with answers
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 284 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : June 2007
ISBN : 1847192408
ISBN 13 : 9781847192400
Author(s) : Pawan Kumar
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Content Management (CMS), Enterprise
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: ECM Basics
Chapter 2: Working with Content
Chapter 3: Objects and Types
Chapter 4: Architecture
Chapter 5: Users and Privileges
Chapter 6: Groups and Roles
Chapter 7: Object Security
Chapter 8: Searching
Chapter 9: Custom Types
Chapter 10: DocApps
Chapter 11: Workflows
Chapter 12: Lifecycles
Chapter 13: Aliases
Chapter 14: Virtual Documents
Practice Test 1
Practice Test 2
Answers
Index
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- 22 submitted: last submission 04 Jan 2012Errata type: Technical | Page number: 28 |
Delete the following at line 8: “there are two possibilities—the next minor version is already present or it is not. If the next minor version is not present, that one is just used. However, if the next minor version is already present,” Delete the following at line 17: “The next minor version, 1.2, was already present in the version tree, so” Delete the following at line 22: “Further, if 1.2 were checked out and then checked in as minor (1.3) or major (3.0) version, no branch would be created.”
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 35 |
Replace "Methods are usually invoked using Documentum Foundation Classes (DFCs) programmatically, though they can be indirectly invoked using DQL and API." with "Methods are usually invoked using Documentum Foundation Classes (DFCs) programmatically, though they can be indirectly invoked using API. In general, DQL cannot be used to invoke specific methods on objects."
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 40 |
The information box should read as: "Note that the tables used for persisting objects of a particular type only store the properties explicitly defined for that type. Inherited properties are stored in the tables for the supertypes where they belong. However, all such persistence tables have the r_object_id column, which is used for joining information from other tables."
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Replace "This document is linked to folder named mydoc, which in turn is linked to a cabinet named Temp." with "This document is linked to folder named mydocs, which in turn is linked to a cabinet named Temp."
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 47 |
The property name "post_install_proc_id" should be "post_install_proc_label" for Version label of the post installation procedure.
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 47 |
Replace There is no dm_folder_s table (True/False). With No new (non-inherited) single-valued attributes are provided by dm_folder (True/False).
Errata type: Technical Issue | Page number: 59 |
In the figure, remove the DFC block below the Content Server. There is no server-side DFC involved.
Errata type: Technical Issue | Page number: 60 |
In the figure, remove the DFC block below the Content Server. There is no server-side DFC involved.
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 61 |
TReplace "6. This client-side DFC communicates with the DFC on the Content Server side. A request is sent to the Content Server via DMCL." with "6. This client-side DFC communicates with the Content Server via DMCL."
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Replace "9. The DFC on the Content Server side passes this information to the client-side DFC. This communication takes place with the help of DMCL." with "9. The Content Server returns this information to the client-side DFC back through DMCL."
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 73 |
Replace "An LDAP confi guration object (type dm_ldap config) stores confi guration for the Content Server to use for interacting with an LDAP server." with "An LDAP confi guration object (type dm_ldap_config) stores confi guration for the Content Server to use for interacting with an LDAP server."
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Replace "2. Coordinator: The coordinator capability includes consumer capability. In addition, a coordinator can create cabinets, workflows, and virtual documents and can view hidden objects." with "2. Contributor: The contributor capability includes consumer capability. In addition, a contributor can create documents and folders, modify regular documents and virtual documents (including checkin and checkout), and delete documents."
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Replace "3. Contributor: The contributor capability includes coordinator capability. In addition, a contributor can create documents and folders, modify regular documents and virtual documents (including checkin and checkout), and delete documents." with "3. Coordinator: The coordinator capability includes contributor capability. In addition, a coordinator can create cabinets, workflows, and virtual documents and can view hidden objects."
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Replace "4. System Administrator: The system administrator capability includes the contributor capability." with "4. System Administrator: The system administrator capability includes the coordinator capability."
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 93 |
In the table regarding Extended Permissions, replace "Change State NONE" with "Change State WRITE"
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Replace "Usually, the object owner is assigned higher permissions through the applied permission set. Permission sets are discussed later in this chapter." with "Usually, the object owner is assigned higher permissions through the applied permission set. The given automatic permissions are independent of the default permission set. Permission sets and default permission sets are discussed later in this chapter."
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Replace "A system permission set is created and modified by a user with Sysadmin or Superuser privileges. Such a permission set is owned by the repository owner (dm_dbo) and is available to all the users of the repository." with "A system permission set is typically created and modified by a user with Sysadmin or Superuser privileges. Such a permission set is owned by the repository owner (dm_dbo) and is available to all the users of the repositrory. However, any user can create a system (public) permission set."
Errata type: Graphics | Page number: 106 |
In the figure, the 'Revise Search' box should be numbered as '4' and the 'Save Search' box should be '5'.
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 137 |
Replace "Further, when DAB checks in changes to types, the data dictionary is automatically published." with "After type-related changes are checked in through DAB, the data dictionary should be published to make these changes available to client applications."
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 137 |
In the Information box replace "Note that the data dictionary is available for the client applications to use and the Content Server does use the data dictionary for its operation." with "Note that the data dictionary is available for the client applications to use and the Content Server does not use the data dictionary for its operation."
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 179 |
Replace "In order to apply a lifecycle to an object, the user must have relate permission on the lifecycle or be the object owner." with "In order to apply a lifecycle to an object, the user must have relate permissions on the lifecycle and be the object owner."
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 250 |
Replace "3. [a, c]" with "3. [c] Even though Documentum Administrator can be used to create an object of type dm_application, this is neither a common approach nor a practical one for creating DocApps.
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- Key content management concepts for using Documentum
- Documentum platform architecture
- Using content with metadata
- User authentication
- Authorizing access for users and groups
- Securing objects with permissions
- Searching metadata and content
- Creating custom object types
- Managing customizations with DocApps
- Creating portable customizations with aliases
- Process automation with workflows and lifecycles
- Using virtual documents for collaboration and reuse
Part 1: Fundamentals (Chapters 1 - 4)
ECM Basics introduces the basic concepts of content management. Working with Content describes the aspects of creating and manipulating content. Objects and Types lays the foundation of designing and using metadata. Architecture describes the key components of the EMC Documentum platform and how they interact to provide the content management capabilities.
Part 2: Security (Chapters 5 - 7)
Users and Privileges describes the core concepts related to users for implementing security in Documentum. Groups and Roles provides additional capabilities for facilitating security management for groups of users. Object Security introduces permissions and ties them to users, groups, and privileges to realize the security model.
Part 3: User Interface (Chapter 8)
Searching describes the features for finding relevant content stored in a repository. While other user interface aspects are covered throughout the book, searching is described separately because of its fundamental importance to content management.
Part 4: Application Development (Chapters 9 - 12)
Custom Types describes how to create user-defined metadata structure and fundamental customization aspects. DocApps describes how to package the development artefacts for reuse and portability across repositories. Workflows and Lifecycles describe how to model and implement business processes in Documentum.
Part 5: Advanced Concepts (Chapters 13 - 14)
Aliases describes a mechanism for dynamic assignment of ownership, locations, and permissions. Virtual Documents describes how multiple documents can be managed as one larger document to facilitate collaboration.
There are two practice test papers at the end of this book.
There is a set of questions at the end of each chapter. These questions are meant to test your understanding. A good way to prioritize and focus your efforts is to use the questions to identify the areas where you score low and then work on those areas. The answers to all the questions and the solutions to the practice test papers have been provided at the end.
This is a complete study guide including study material and practice questions to prepare for the EMC Proven Professional certification Exam E20-120. It can also serve Documentum beginners and practitioners as a handy guide and quick reference to the technical fundamentals that is fully up to date for Documentum 5.3. Beginners are introduced to concepts in a logical manner while practitioners can use it as a reference to jump to relevant concepts directly.
EMC Documentum is a leading enterprise content management technology platform that helps enterprises to streamline the capture, processing, and distribution of business information including documents, records, e-mails, web content, images, reports, and digital assets. It can also automate entire business processes in accordance with business rules.
EMC Proven Professional is an exam-based certification program, which introduced a new EMC Proven Content Management Application Developer (EMCAD) track in early 2007. The first exam in this track is Content Management Foundations (CMF) Associate-level Exam, with exam code E20-120, which tests knowledge about technical fundamentals of Documentum. This book is a study guide to help you prepare for this exam with hundreds of practice questions and an efficient exam-preparation strategy.
In this book, we will teach you the fundamentals of Documentum while effectually training you for the E20-120 exam.
This book discusses all the topics from the E20-120 Content Management Foundations exam syllabus and augments each topic with illustrated examples and practice questions. Two comprehensive full-length practice tests build the confidence needed to tackle the real exam successfully. By providing coherent, detailed, exam-focussed study material scrutinized by technical reviewers and plentiful practice questions this book goes far beyond dm-cram, at a fraction of the cost of EMC Training.
This book is targeted at beginner and intermediate-level Documentum developers and professionals interested in learning the technical fundamentals of Documentum. The book focuses on preparing for the E20-120 exam, which makes it an ideal study guide for those taking the EMC Proven Professional Associate Level Certification in content management.
