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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

Customization—Reusability and Portability


Documentum customization involves multiple aspects at various architecture layers and these customizations can easily become fairly complex. This complexity can be compounded by the fact that developing and deploying customizations often involves multiple environments — development, QA, and production are typical. Further, multiple departments in an enterprise may have separate repositories of their own.

For example if there are two departments and three environments for each department, it leads to a total of six repositories if a clean separation is maintained. Ideally, customization developed in one repository should be easily ported to all these repositories. This portability is achieved by parameterizing everything that can be different across these repositories such that the parameters specific to a repository can be specified/evaluated when the customization is deployed to a repository.

The customization artefacts are bundled together in DocApps...