I took the Magento Associate Certificate on April 27, 2019. I had to get 68 percent on the test but I got 38 percent instead.

For the Magento associate Certificate, those are the portion that should appear on the exam for each areas.

  • Magento Architecture & Customization Techniques 33%
  • Request Flow Processing 7%
  • Customizing the Magento UI 15%
  • Working with Databases in Magento 18%
  • Developing with Adminhtml 11%
  • Customizing Magento Business Logic 16%

    • And these are the test scores I got from the actual test.

    Overall Score: 38.33%

    Magento Architecture & Customization Techniques: 42.10%
    Request Flow Processing: 50.00%
    Customizing Magento UI: 55.55%
    Working with databases in Magento: 27.27%
    Developing with adminhtml : 14.28%
    Customizing Magento Business logic : 40.00%


    The result hurts a lot, but it actually helps in how I can prepare for the test.
    The most resource I referred to when studying for the test was alanstorm.com. Also, I looked up swiftotter guide itself and other blogs to prepare for the exam. I actually paid for the swiftotter practice exam and also two udemy courses. Looking back, I don't think udemy courses helped, and alanstorm blogs helped a lot figuring out how magento works, but not in the level to get me pass the associate exam.

    After I took the exam, I feel that I need to take a look into the source code itself and actually understand it as how it actually works and what it does. Especially, there was a lot of features on the test for the new version features, namely, the GraphQl things.

    To prepare more for the exam, I am going to attack more on the new features, and also focus on the frontend, especially the layouts. I notice the associate doesn't pay that much about javascript modules, but I should know the basics of it. I also bought two online books, one is `No Frills Magento 2 Layout` which contains a lot of frontend information of magento by Alan Storm. One is a kindle book of `Magento 2 Developer's Guide` by Branko Ajzele.