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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

Managing Content Hierarchically


The hierarchical content is fairly common in everyday life. A book is an excellent example of hierarchical content. Books are usually organized into chapters, chapters into sections, sections into sub-sections, and there can be more layers in such a hierarchy. A hierarchical organization is frequently used with large content to facilitate its management. While this benefit applies even to content that is not in electronic form, significant benefits are possible for electronic content. This is what the hierarchy for a book looks like:

While the hierarchical organization makes large content manageable, it also opens up new possibilities for online collaboration. For example, suppose a team working on creation of a book consists of two authors, two subject matter reviewers, and one editor. It is highly desirable that all these participants be able to work on various portions (sometimes even the same portions) of the book in order to complete their tasks efficiently...