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Adobe Workfront Core Developer Professional study plan

Adobe Workfront Core Developer Professional · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Workfront Configuration and Administration

  • Configure a group, a sub-group, and a company in a sandbox, then set group-level project preferences and custom statuses

  • Build a project template containing at least 8 tasks with durations, predecessor relationships, and a milestone path

  • Create a request queue with two queue topics and routing rules, then submit a test request and confirm the generated project

  • Create a layout template that hides and reorders fields for a specific group, and assign it to a test user

  • Document the precedence order between access levels, group preferences, and layout templates by testing a conflicting setting

Your checkpoint

A one-page configuration map covering statuses, template, request queue, and layout template for a single group, plus the ID of the request you submitted and the project it produced

Week 2

Workfront Configuration and Administration & API and Integrations

  • Audit the setup from week 1 and correct at least three misconfigurations you find

  • Authenticate against a current versioned Workfront REST endpoint and retrieve projects with a filtered search call

  • Shape responses using the fields parameter, including one nested reference such as owner:name

  • Reproduce three existing Workfront reports as raw API queries and compare the returned record counts to the report totals

  • Explain in writing how object codes, IDs, and reference fields differ in URL paths and payloads

Your checkpoint

A notes file containing 10 working GET requests with their filters, the JSON record counts returned, and the corresponding Workfront report each was validated against

Week 3

API and Integrations

  • Perform create, update, and delete operations on a test project, task, and assignment through the API

  • Write custom form values onto an object using parameter values and the DE: prefix in filters and payloads

  • Register an event subscription for a project or task event and capture a live payload after triggering it

  • Document the HTTP status codes and error bodies returned for a bad ID, a bad field name, and an unauthorized call

  • Outline a request-and-response integration design showing where authentication, retries, and idempotency belong

Your checkpoint

A reusable request collection or script of 15 calls covering CRUD on three object types plus one event subscription, with request, status code, and trimmed response recorded for each

Week 4

Custom Forms and Custom Fields

  • Build five custom fields of different types, including text, dropdown, date, checkbox, and calculated

  • Assemble three custom forms with section breaks and display logic, then attach them to project, task, issue, and user objects

  • Write three calculated fields using conditional and date functions and verify output against manual expected values

  • Set sharing permissions on custom forms and confirm what a restricted test user can see

  • Trace how a custom field value flows from a custom form into report filters and API payloads

Your checkpoint

A custom form library of three forms with at least 12 fields including 3 calculated fields, attached to the project template, with expected versus actual calculated output recorded for 5 test records

Week 5

Reporting and Dashboards

  • Build a project report with filters, groupings, a chart, and conditional formatting

  • Create a text-mode filter using an EXISTS clause to return projects that carry a specific custom field value

  • Write a text-mode view or grouping that surfaces a custom field value without exposing it in the standard interface

  • Assemble a dashboard of four report widgets and share it with a group, then verify what a group member sees

  • Compare standard, matrix, and chart report types and pick the right one for three stated business questions

Your checkpoint

A shared dashboard with five reports, at least one using a text-mode filter and one matrix report, plus a short write-up of the filter logic and sharing settings for each

Week 6

Workflow, Approvals, and Automation

  • Configure an approval process with stages, multiple approvers, and a delegation path for a project and a task

  • Wire a request queue into an automated path so that submitted requests route to the right team with the right assignment rules

  • Set reminders and notifications on a template so stale tasks surface without manual checking

  • Test an approval rejection path and confirm the object status and audit entries it produces

  • Reconstruct the full lifecycle of one request from submission to approval using the object's update and audit history

Your checkpoint

An end-to-end workflow demonstration in which a submitted request creates a project, routes through a two-stage approval, and closes, with a timestamped audit trail documenting every state change

Week 7

User Management, Access, and Sharing

  • Create access levels for a planner, a worker, and a reviewer with deliberately different object permissions

  • Set up a group administrator who manages a sub-group and confirm the inherited versus granted permissions

  • Apply sharing on a project, a template, and a report using both individual and group shares, then test inherit-from-group behavior

  • Inspect each object's sharing hierarchy and identify why a given user does or does not have access

  • Map plan, work, collaborator, and review license capabilities to what each persona can actually do in the UI and the API

Your checkpoint

A permission matrix of four personas against five object types, filled in with the results you actually tested rather than assumptions, with every mismatch between expectation and reality flagged

Week 8

Workfront Configuration and Administration & Custom Forms and Custom Fields & Reporting and Dashboards & Workflow, Approvals, and Automation & API and Integrations & User Management, Access, and Sharing

  • Complete two full-length timed practice sets and log every missed item by domain and subtopic

  • Rebuild from memory the three subtopics that produced the most errors, without consulting notes first

  • Re-verify API authentication, error handling, and custom field payloads, since these carry the heaviest combined weight

  • Compress all six domains into a single page of decision rules, precedence orders, and object relationships

  • Re-test every subtopic that scored below 80 percent and record the new result

Your checkpoint

A domain-tagged error log of at least 40 missed items with the correct answer and root cause for each, plus proof that every previously weak subtopic has been re-tested and now clears 80 percent

Milestones

Week 2: Authentication succeeds against the API, 10 validated GET requests exist, and the group configuration map from week 1 has been audited and corrected

Week 4: Score at least 80 percent on a 30-question timed set covering configuration, API, and custom forms, and have three custom forms attached to a live template

Week 6: Demonstrate the full request-to-approval workflow end to end and show a shared dashboard with at least five working reports

Week 8: Score at least 85 percent on two full-length timed practice sets with no single domain below 75 percent, and have the complete error log finished