Acquia Site Factory Pro study guide
Acquia Site Factory Pro · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Acquia Certified Site Factory Pro is a professional credential from Acquia aimed at people who build and operate large portfolios of Drupal sites on Acquia Site Factory, the platform Acquia describes as a way to 'Scale from One Site to Hundreds' on 'one codebase' with 'zero governance gaps.' Candidates are typically site builders, technical leads, platform administrators, and delivery teams responsible for a multi-site estate rather than a single Drupal installation, where the daily work is repeatable, governed operations at scale. Preparation should therefore center on the four areas that dominate that work: platform architecture and governance; creating, cloning, and retiring sites across a lifecycle; deploying code and running update workflows through environments; and managing users, roles, and access consistently across many sites at once. The Acquia Site Factory Pro study guide has 4 sections and about 1,251 words.
01Site Factory Platform Architecture and Governance
Acquia Site Factory is a governance and multisite management layer that runs on top of Acquia Cloud. The factory is itself a Drupal site that provides the management console, API, and task queue.
339 words, about 2 min02Site Creation, Cloning, and Site Lifecycle Management
A site is created from the factory console or API by choosing an install profile/distribution , a site group , a domain , and an administrative account. The platform provisions a database, a files directory, and a stack, then runs the installer.
323 words, about 2 min03Code Deployment, Updates, and Environment Workflow
Site Factory uses the Acquia Cloud deployment pipeline: commit to the repository, deploy to dev , then test , then prod . Because all sites in an environment share the same codebase, a code deployment changes the code for every site in that environment at once.
309 words, about 2 min04User Management, Roles, and Access Control Across Sites
Site Factory has factory users (people who log in to the management console) and site users (accounts in each site's own database). A factory user's role controls platform actions: create sites, clone, delete, manage site groups, manage users, view reports.
280 words, about 1 min