Shopify Development Fundamentals Assessment

• 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.

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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 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