Documentum 6.5 Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide

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. 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. If you are looking for a complete study guide that teaches you the fundamentals of Documentum 6.5 while effectively training you for the EMC Proven Professional certification Exam E20-120, your search ends right here.

This book also serves Documentum beginners and practitioners as a handy guide and quick reference to the technical fundamentals of Documentum 6.5. Beginners are introduced to concepts in a logical manner while practitioners can use this book as a reference to jump to relevant concepts directly.

The book takes the reader from the fundamental content management concepts to advanced topics for the Documentum 6.5 platform discussing architecture, security, the user interface, and application development on the way. It doesn't assume any prior knowledge of the subject and each chapter provides additional learning resources and practice questions to reinforce the understanding of the concepts. Appendices provide a summary of the new features in versions 6.0 and 6.5, and a brief discussion on using DocApps. Three practice tests at the end cover the complete breadth of the topics discussed in the book. A study guide, this book will help you prepare for the E20-120 exam with hundreds of practice questions, three practice tests, and an efficient exam-preparation strategy.

Learn the technical fundamentals of Documentum 6.5, develop insights with illustrated examples from a real-life business scenario, and ace the E20-120 exam

What you will learn from this book:

• Learn the fundamental content management concepts for working with Documentum 6.5 and the Documentum platform architecture
• Create and manage content with metadata
• Secure repository access with users, groups, and permissions
• Search and locate documents
• Configure Webtop user interface with presets
• Create and manage customizations with Documentum projects in Composer
• Create portable and reusable customizations with aliases
• Automate processes and business rules with workflows and lifecycles
• Use virtual documents for collaboration and reuse

About the Author

Pawan Kumar is a Technical Architect with current expertise in Enterprise Content Management with EMC Documentum. He has an MS in Computer Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (India).

Pawan has experience developing products as well as delivering business solutions on the Documentum platform and has created two products for this platform. He is intimately familiar with effective processes and tools for achieving business objectives through Documentum-based technology solutions. He has led and executed requirements and design workshops, architecture design, scoping, estimation, project planning, resource planning, technical design, software development, software testing, solution roll-out, and ongoing support for the deployed solutions. Pawan has been architecting, designing, and developing enterprise applications for ten years. He has developed software systems for financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, logistics, energy services, and retail industries. His expertise spans solution architecture, document management, system integration, web content management, business process management, imaging and input management, and custom application development.

Currently, Pawan provides consulting and training services through doQuent (doquent.com), which was founded with the vision of enabling client success in content-related business initiatives. He also believes in giving back to the community. He founded the free online Documentum community dm_cram (dmcram.org), which is a test preparation resource for Documentum exams. He is also an active contributor to the Documentum-users Yahoo! User group, where Documentum community members seek help for their technical challenges.