Shopify Development Fundamentals Assessment

Overview

Verified Skills badge

Proctored Assessment

40 questions

About this assessment

As a candidate for this badge, you should know the fundamentals of customizing themes, integrating with APIs, and working with Shopify’s data model.

We also suggest having these additional skills:

Basic knowledge of JavaScript frameworks and libraries. React is a plus
Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
Basic knowledge of REST APIs, the ability to make HTTP requests, and familiarity with JSON formatting

Assessment details

The assessment consists of 40 scored questions and will take approximately 40 minutes to complete. There is no time limit for the assessment.
A score of 80% will earn a Shopify Verified Skills badge shareable via Credly.
Assessments may contain up to 10 additional unscored questions that do not impact your results. These are inserted randomly into the assessment to gather data for future testing.
Badges are valid for two years from the date of successful completion.
Please visit the Help page for more information on earning and sharing your badge

Proctoring details

This assessment uses remote proctoring. Please ensure you are alone and in a quiet environment before starting. No materials can be referenced during the assessment.

Learning path

We recommend you complete all the courses in the learning path prior to attempting the assessment.

Shopify Development Fundamentals

Assessment outline

Developing on Shopify: 15%

Describe how Shopify's architecture enables easier development than other ecommerce platforms
Complete setup of a developer store depending on the use case
Describe the main ecomm primitives, channels, and settings in the Shopify Admin

Customizing Themes 28%

Correctly match theme components to the right folder in Shopify’s standard theme directory structure
Customize the Shopify Dawn theme using the Theme editor
Build a custom collections page for a store using Liquid objects and JSON templates

Exploring and Extending Shopify’s Data Model 27%

Describe common ecommerce primitives as defined by Shopify
Select appropriate data objects for use in common D2C, B2B, and Retail use cases
Correctly choose between a metafield and a metaobject to surface custom information depending on client requests

Integrating with Shopify 30%

Identify use cases for Shopify’s most used APIs and webhooks
Create queries and mutations in GraphQL to pull and manipulate data for different use cases
Navigate the Shopify app store to find 1P and 3P apps to solve common challenges
Identify the right app surfaces and next steps in app development for common use cases

Steps

Shopify Development Fundamentals Assessment
Next Steps

Overview

Verified Skills badge

Proctored Assessment

40 questions

Learning Path

About this assessment

As a candidate for this badge, you should know the fundamentals of customizing themes, integrating with APIs, and working with Shopify’s data model.

We also suggest having these additional skills:

Basic knowledge of JavaScript frameworks and libraries. React is a plus
Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
Basic knowledge of REST APIs, the ability to make HTTP requests, and familiarity with JSON formatting

Assessment details

The assessment consists of 40 scored questions and will take approximately 40 minutes to complete. There is no time limit for the assessment.
A score of 80% will earn a Shopify Verified Skills badge shareable via Credly.
Assessments may contain up to 10 additional unscored questions that do not impact your results. These are inserted randomly into the assessment to gather data for future testing.
Badges are valid for two years from the date of successful completion.
Please visit the Help page for more information on earning and sharing your badge

Proctoring details

This assessment uses remote proctoring. Please ensure you are alone and in a quiet environment before starting. No materials can be referenced during the assessment.

Learning path

We recommend you complete all the courses in the learning path prior to attempting the assessment.

Shopify Development Fundamentals

Assessment outline

Developing on Shopify: 15%

Describe how Shopify's architecture enables easier development than other ecommerce platforms
Complete setup of a developer store depending on the use case
Describe the main ecomm primitives, channels, and settings in the Shopify Admin

Customizing Themes 28%

Correctly match theme components to the right folder in Shopify’s standard theme directory structure
Customize the Shopify Dawn theme using the Theme editor
Build a custom collections page for a store using Liquid objects and JSON templates

Exploring and Extending Shopify’s Data Model 27%

Describe common ecommerce primitives as defined by Shopify
Select appropriate data objects for use in common D2C, B2B, and Retail use cases
Correctly choose between a metafield and a metaobject to surface custom information depending on client requests

Integrating with Shopify 30%

Identify use cases for Shopify’s most used APIs and webhooks
Create queries and mutations in GraphQL to pull and manipulate data for different use cases
Navigate the Shopify app store to find 1P and 3P apps to solve common challenges
Identify the right app surfaces and next steps in app development for common use cases

Steps