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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

Full-Text Indexing


We have already seen that full-text indexing affects the search in significant ways. It is worth understanding the fundamental concepts of full-text indexing even though it is an optional component of the Documentum platform.

Full-text indexing is implemented by the Index Server, which is an optional component. One Index Server can provide indexing for multiple repositories and, thus, multiple Content Servers. An Index Agent is associated with a Content Server and supports the indexing needs of the associated repository.

The Index Server participates both in creation of and searching of the full-text indexes. Full-text index creation is coordinated by the Index Agent through the FAST Index Plugin (see the note about FAST in Documentum Product Notes later in this chapter). Querying the indexes is coordinated by the Content Server using the FAST Query Plugin. This is shown in the following figure:

The Index Server receives requests for indexing when a sysobject undergoes...