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

By : Pawan Kumar
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Documentum Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide

By: Pawan Kumar

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Documentum Content Management Foundations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Content and Metadata


Databases are ubiquitous in modern technology solutions. This is a mature field and well-known best practices are routinely used for deploying databases. Databases provide standard means for accessing and manipulating structured data. Structured means that the data components (fields) are of specific type (integer, string, etc.) and this knowledge helps in querying and manipulating the data.

On the other hand, files stored on the file system are generally unstructured and can contain information in any form. Such files and the unstructured information contained therein are collectively referred to as content.

While databases provide standard means of managing structured data, content management systems (CMS) are a relatively new phenomenon. Since the content itself is unstructured, it is not possible to read and understand the content without any prior knowledge about it. Therefore, some structured data is attached to each content item, which describes the content item. This data that provides information about the attached content item is called metadata.

Content management systems utilize metadata extensively to provide sophisticated functionality. For example, metadata is essential for making documents searchable in terms of their author, title, subject, or keywords. It is hard to imagine any functionality of Documentum that does not utilize metadata in one form or another. The following figure shows two content items and their associated metadata: