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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

Virtual Documents


A virtual document is a container for component documents, which are either simple documents of type dm_sysobject (or a subtype excluding dm_folder and its subtypes) or virtual documents. Even though its primary purpose is to act as a container, a virtual document object can have content of its own.

Note

Note that it is a recursive definition — the definition of virtual document, in turn, uses the term virtual document. In computer science, recursive definitions facilitate description of tree-like structures. We will see in a moment that virtual documents also have a tree structure.

Note that there is no limit on the depth of the hierarchy — a virtual document can contain another virtual document, which can contain another virtual document, and so on. The containment relationship between a virtual document and its component is known as nesting.

The components in the virtual document hierarchy are ordered, which means that there is a sequence among the direct components...