Sylius Certification

Exam Topics

NOTE: The Sylius 1.12 Certification exam only includes questions about Sylius 1.12 version. What is more, the questions are focusing only on full-stack Sylius (with small exceptions). This also applies to questions about lower-level libraries, for instance, Grid and Resource, which are included in the full-fledged installation of Sylius.

• Addressing

  • Countries and their configuration
  • Provinces and their configuration
  • How do provinces behave in relation to countries
  • Zones and their configuration
  • How and where are the zones used

• Cart & Checkout

  • Details about the state machine of the checkout
  • Details and requirements for each step of the checkout process and how they affect each other
  • What can be done with the cart in Sylius and how
  • Inventory management during the checkout process
  • Shipping and payment method selection
  • Address book behavior during the checkout process

• Cart Promotion

  • Order of execution and promotion calculation results
  • Configuration of cart promotions
  • Configuration of coupons
  • Available promotion rules and how to change/extend them
  • Available promotion actions and how to change/extend them

• Catalog Promotion

  • Catalog promotions' order of execution, calculation results, and behavior
  • Configuration of catalog promotions
  • Available variant checkers and how to change/extend them
  • Available price calculators and how to change/extend them
  • Catalog promotion processing and its configuration

• Channel

  • What depends on the channels
  • How are channels resolved
  • Channels configuration

• CLI

  • Sylius commands and their usage

• Currency

  • How money and currencies are stored in Sylius
  • What are exchange rates and how do they behave
  • Money calculations and presentations based on the selected currency
  • Currency and exchange rates configuration

• Extensibility

  • Extending Sylius models, repositories and factories
  • Extending Sylius controllers
  • Extending Sylius form types and templates

• Fixtures

  • Fixtures configuration and how to extend them
  • Fixtures features
  • Fixture listeners' configuration, their behavior, and how to extend them

• General

  • Licenses
  • High-level Sylius structure and architecture
  • Purposes of main Sylius components
  • What is preconfigured in Sylius installations in different environments
  • Current Sylius dependencies (only main ones like PHP, Node, Symfony, and Databases)
  • Basic questions about Sylius API
  • Generic state machine usage (its configuration, what can be done on it etc.)

• Grid

  • How grids may be declared
  • Grids optimizations
  • Available grid actions, their configuration, and how to add a new one
  • Available grid filters, their configuration, and how to add a new one
  • Available grid fields, their configuration, and how to add a new one
  • Grid usage and drivers

• Locale

  • Locale configuration
  • Locale resolution (and how to configure it)

• Order

  • Details about the steps of order processing
  • How to customize order processing
  • What each of the steps of order processing does
  • States of order suitable for given order processors
  • Behavior and details about order adjustments (and how they are set in different order processors), what data can be found in them
  • Order life cycle after the checkout

• Payment

  • Payment state machine
  • Payment methods’ configuration
  • Payment gateways

• Product

  • Details about product configuration
  • Details about product pricing
  • Details about the product and its relation to taxonomy
  • Details about product associations
  • Details about product attributes
  • Details about product options
  • Details about product reviews
  • Image handling and processing

• Resource

  • What is Sylius Resource?
  • How can Sylius Resource be configured?
  • What services are available thanks to resources and what is their default functionality?
  • How does the translation of entities work in Sylius?
  • Sylius Resource configuration

• Shipping

  • Shipping method configuration
  • Shipping method calculators, their configuration, how to add them
  • Shipping method rule checkers, their configuration, how to add them
  • Shipping state machine

• Shop

  • Customer mailing
  • Shop Users vs Customers

• Taxation

  • Taxation of orders
  • Taxation of order items
  • Taxation of shipments
  • Taxation and promotion on the same object
  • Taxes calculation logic
  • Extensibility of taxation logic

• Testing

  • Types of tests in Sylius
  • Testing utils in Sylius