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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

Lifecycle Concepts


A lifecycle is a set of linearly connected states that define the stages in an object's life. A state can be a normal state or an exception state. Normal states are used for normal progress through the stages and exception states help to deal with less frequent situations.

A lifecycle is associated with a set of object types and only objects of these types can apply this lifecycle. An object can be associated with at most one lifecycle at a time and it is in exactly one of the states present in the lifecycle. The object can move back and forth between the lifecycle states following the specified conditions and triggering changes in the process.

A state can have entry criteria that must be satisfied for an object to enter that state. When an object is about to enter a state, entry actions specified for that state are executed. Once an object has entered a state, any specified post-entry (post-change) actions are executed. Actions can be predefined actions or custom...