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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

Search Process


Webtop enables searching for objects in two ways and there are some nuances to each approach that we will explore in this chapter. However, there is a common underlying pattern to the search process either way.

Webtop allows the following sequence of steps for searching, though some of these steps are optional (refer to the figure for a better understanding):

  1. 1. Specify the search criteria: The search criteria define the conditions that an object has to satisfy to be a part of the results. Search criteria typically include words being searched for in metadata or in content and additional conditions (such as last modification date being later than a specified date) on the metadata. The criteria may be explicitly specified by the user, may be implicit, or could be retrieved from a previously saved search.

  2. 2. Submit the search request: The search request is submitted once all the desired criteria have been specified.

    Webtop passes on the search request to the Content Server where...