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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

Content Services Layer


As discussed in a previous chapter, a repository is brought to life by the Content Server. The Content Server manages the repository and provides a low-level interface for interaction with the repository. The Content Services Layer (also referred to as Services Layer) provides application-level services for organizing, controlling, sequencing, and delivering content to and from the repository.

The Content Services Layer consists of the following core services:

  • Library Services: These services consist of checkin/checkout, versioning, and basic rendering. These concepts are discussed in Working with Content (Chapter 2).

  • Security Services: These services consist of authentication, authorization, and auditing. These concepts are discussed in the chapter related to security.

  • Workflow Services: These services automate business activities and policies for repository content. Workflows are discussed in Chapter 11.

  • Lifecycle Services: These services automate the lifecycle...