Study Guide

Drupal User Guide

Check out the new Drupal User Guide for understanding key concepts

Topic-wise Study Reference Material

1. Understanding Drupal & Working with a Drupal Site

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to explain the distinct and differentiating features of Drupal.

1.2 Given an example of a page layout, determine what is content versus a block.

1.3 Demonstrate an ability to troubleshoot problems related to content, configuration and maintenance

Topic	Link
Understanding Drupal	https://www.drupal.org/docs/understanding-drupal
Drupal Version Numbers	https://www.drupal.org/docs/understanding-drupal/understanding-drupal-version-numbers
Drupal System Requirements	https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements
Drupal General Concepts	https://www.drupal.org/node/19828
Administering a Drupal Site	https://www.drupal.org/docs/administering-a-drupal-site/getting-started-with-drupal-administration
Managing Content on a Drupal Site	https://www.drupal.org/docs/administering-a-drupal-site/managing-content

2. Content Modeling

2.1. Demonstrate ability to model content using Content Types and Vocabularies

2.2. Demonstrate ability to configure and manage comment types and comments

2.3. Demonstrate ability to configure and manage block types and blocks

2.4. Demonstrate ability to configure and manage Contact forms

2.5. Demonstrate ability to configure and use multilingual content and interface

2.6. Demonstrate ability to configure and manage menus, menu items and menu blocks

2.7 Demonstrate the ability to configure and use Rich media in content using Media module

Topic	Link
Planning Data Types	https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/planning-data-types.html
Planning Content Structure	https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/planning-structure.html
Content Types	https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/content-structure-chapter.html
Blocks	https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/block-concept.html
Contact module documentation	https://www.drupal.org/documentation/modules/contact
Drupal Multilingual Guide	https://www.drupal.org/docs/multilingual-guide
Working with Menus	https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/menu-concept.html
Setting up Content Structure	https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/content-structure-chapter.html
Media Module	https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/core/modules/media

3. Site Display

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to control the display of content across various regions of the site using the block system.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to provide different presentations of Content Entities (like Nodes, Comments, User Profiles, Terms etc) for editing or viewing

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to to create, manage and display lists of content using Drupal Views.

3.4 Demonstrate the ability to build layouts of content using Layout Builder

Topic	Link
Views User Guide	https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/views-chapter.html
Working with Views	https://www.drupal.org/documentation/modules/views
Working with blocks	https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/blocks-chapter.html
Layout Builder	https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/core/modules/layout-builder

4. Site Configuration

4.1. Demonstrate the ability to use the various options related to site configuration like account settings, content authoring, development, search, site and system settings, media.

4.2. Demonstrate the ability to use the Configuration and Synchronization options to import, export, compare configuration across environments.

4.3 Given a scenario, demonstrate the ability to configure user accounts

Topic	Link
Managing your site configuration	https://www.drupal.org/docs/configuration-management/managing-your-sites-configuration
Managing User Accounts	https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/user-chapter.html

5. Module and Theme management

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to add, update, and remove contributed modules

5.2. Demonstrate the ability to add, update, and remove contributed themes

5.3 Identify ways of community participation and reporting issues

Topic	Link
Finding and installing a contributed module	https://www.drupal.org/docs/extending-drupal/installing-modules
Extending Drupal	https://www.drupal.org/docs/extending-drupal
Installing themes	https://www.drupal.org/docs/extending-drupal/installing-themes
Evaluating a contrib module	https://dev.acquia.com/blog/how-select-drupal-modules-part-3-evaluation-tips
Ways of community contribution	https://www.drupal.org/contribute
Reporting a problem	https://www.drupal.org/node/314185

6. Security & Performance

6.1. Identify security issues resulting from site configuration

6.2. Identify performance issues resulting from site configuration

Topic	Link
Secure configurations for Site Builders	https://www.drupal.org/docs/security-in-drupal/secure-configuration-for-site-builders
Drupal Performance improvements	https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud/performance/
	https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud/performance/#cloud-perf-drupal-core

Acquia Academy YouTube Resources

Drupal 8 Beginner's Course :

Drupal 8 Site Builder Course :

Drupalize.me Resources

Drupalize.me has published a concise list of the Drupalize.Me tutorials and other resources, that will help you prepare for Acquia's Certified Site Builder exam for both Drupal 7 and 8. The list is available at:

https://drupalize.me/acquia-certified-site-builder-exam

Learn more about the Acquia Certification Program at https://acquia.com/certification