Tagged: CMS 12

Optimizely SaaS CMS Developer Certification

I have recently passed the Optimizely SaaS CMS Developer Certification. Sharing my experience, hope this helps.

https://academy.optimizely.com/student/activity/2181428-saas-cms-developer-certification?sid=b1c2cf21-e438-4a16-8832-c165d1724844&sid_i=2

Let’s get started.

To prepare for the exam, I started with Optimizely Academy’s SaaS CMS Fundamentals and went through all the modules.

https://academy.optimizely.com/student/collection/1405874/path/4062729

The developer documentation helps to revise the concepts.

Optimizely Developer Documentation

The complete SaaS CMS Developer Certification reference material

https://academy.optimizely.com/student/activity/2408711-saas-cms-developer-core-competency-certification-reference-material

When you’re ready for the exam, you can purchase the exam voucher code for $300. Alternatively, if your company is an Optimizely partner and you have competitor certification, fill out the Opt-up program to receive a free voucher code.

https://www.optimizely.com/support/education/opt-up-training-certification-program/

After submission, they confirm the eligibility within 7 business days in email.

Once the voucher code is redeemed, you need to take the exam within 14 days. No scheduling the exam is needed, you can take exam anytime.

Exam Questions: 50 multiple-choice questions

Duration: 60 minutes

Pass Score: 85% (43 questions need to be correct)

Note: In case of exam failure, you can retake the exam after 24 hours!

After passing, Credly will send an email notification, and the certification is valid for 2 good years.

If you prefer watching a video, my quick recording –

Happy Optimizing!

September 21, 2025

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Optimizely : Fast Installation on Local Machine

I have been exploring Optimizely and installed CMS 12 on my local machine pretty quickly using the NuGet package manager.

Assuming all prerequisites are installed on the local machine. Check out to make sure everything is installed.

https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/commerce-connect/docs/setting-up-your-development-environment

Let’s get started.

Add EpiServer Templates in PowerShell

dotnet new -i EPiServer.Templates

Let’s install Optimizely CLI Tool globally

dotnet tool install EPiServer.Net.Cli –global –add-source https://nuget.optimizely.com/feed/packages.svc/

In Visual Studio, let’s add the following Optimizely NuGet source via NuGet Package Manager Solution.

https://api.nuget.optimizely.com/v3/index.json

Let’s install the EpiServer.CMS NuGet package.

Now, let’s create a new project in Visual Studio, which will give three Optimizely base projects to choose from
- Optimizely Alloy MVC
- Optimizely CMS empty
- Optimizely Commerce empty

I chose Optimizely Alloy MVC, which is a starter kit for new developers to explore.
Named it as AlloyDemo1 project.

Provide the SQL admin SA account password since it creates the databases as part of the project in MDF and LDF files.

The new Optimizely solution is ready to explore!

To run the localhost, we just need to start the IISExpress AlloyDemo1 project, which runs cmd prompt to initialize commands.

After a few seconds, we will see https://localhost:5000 opened in a new browser.

Register the admin account with credentials and explore the new local instance of Optimizely.

NOTE: There is no license required for running on localhost or domainname.local. Yay!

Happy Optimizing!

September 7, 2025

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