Why certify
A commercetools certification validates your knowledge and skills, providing feedback on your learning progress. By passing the exam, you:
- Join a cohort of internationally recognized commercetools professionals.
- Receive a digital badge for your LinkedIn, Meetup, or Xing profile.
- Support your team and company in winning and delivering successful projects.
Certifications offered
Functional Architect
- Use core commercetools features correctly and answer basic and advanced questions related to setup and use
- Map business requirements to current features within commercetools
- Model commercetools data structures (such as Products, Prices, and Shipping Methods)
- Answer basic questions related to the integration of commercetools with third-party systems
Developer
- Use commercetools functionality correctly and answer basic and advanced setup, usage, and coding-level questions
- Use the selected SDK correctly and apply SDK middleware, logging, and error handling appropriately
- Model and optimize data structures (Products, Prices, and Shipping Methods)
- Answer basic and advanced integration questions with third-party systems
- Manage the data lifecycle in a commercetools Project and optimize import and export operations
- Contextualize data for frontends (Stores, Channels, and Customer Groups)
How to get certified
Instructor-led training
Our 14-hour instructor-led training will prepare you for a commercetools certification exam from scratch and test your readiness.
Certification exam
Demonstrate your commercetools knowledge and become a certified commercetools expert through our globally recognized online exam.
You’re certified!
You’re now a certified commercetools expert. Your certification stays valid for one year.
Renew every year
Once your year is up, keep your certified status by completing the renewal below.
Self-study refresher modules
Work through summaries and use cases for important commercetools releases of the last year. Prepare for the renewal exam by taking example quizzes.
Renewal exam
Renew your certification to stay a certified commercetools expert for another year by completing our free globally recognized online renewal exam.
Repeat every year to keep your certification active.
Initial certification
- Complete the preparation path. Attend a training course designed to prepare you for the exam.
- Take the proctored exam. After completing your preparation path, you are eligible to take the exam.
- Review and retry if needed.
- If you do not pass on your first attempt, you can attend a free exam review session with a commercetools trainer.
- This session grants you a second attempt at the exam.
- If you do not pass the second attempt, you must pay the certification fee again for additional attempts.
Exam details
Format and structure
All certification exams share the following format:
- Duration: 100 minutes
- Questions: 60 multiple-choice questions
- Format: Open-book and online
- Passing Score: 80%
- Proctoring: Live-proctored
What you can use during the exam
- The commercetools documentation website
- Your own written notes
- Development tools and your IDE
- The Merchant Center API Playgrounds
What is prohibited
- AI tools, including the commercetools AI Assistant (we monitor this)
- Help from other people
- Copying, recording, or taking screenshots of exam questions (strict copyright violation)
After certification: Validity and renewal
Certification validity
- Certifications are valid for the year they are issued and until October of the following calendar year.
- To maintain an active certification, you must renew it annually by passing a free, online renewal exam. Each renewal extends the certification's validity for one additional year.
How to renew your certification
To extend your certification for another year, you must pass a renewal exam. We provide free refresher courses that cover key product enhancements from the past year, which are included in the exam questions. You can access the renewal exam at the end of each refresher module.