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noahliam7
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April 2, 2026

Been studying for AD0-E720 for weeks, finally figured out what I was doing wrong

  • April 2, 2026
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Okay, I have to share this because I wish someone had told me sooner.


Three weeks in, I genuinely thought I was ready.
Theme inheritance, LESS overrides, layout XML, bin/Magento commands checked everything off. Opened a practice test, feeling confident. Closed it, feeling confused.
Not because the topics were unfamiliar. Because I was answering questions that were not actually being asked.


Here is what I mean. AD0-E720 wraps every question inside a scenario. There is a developer, a project, a constraint, sometimes a deadline. The actual question is buried inside all of that. I was skipping straight to the options and pattern-matching to whatever I had memorized. Wrong approach completely.


Once I slowed down and started reading for the scenario first, what is the actual situation, what is the constraint, what is really being asked here, everything shifted.


The other fix was finding practice questions that are built the same way. ITExamsTopics frames questions the way the real exam does, scenario-based and decision-focused. Not "what does layout XML do", but "this developer has this theme structure, what is the right move here?" That kind of practice rewires how you think through a problem.


Covered the material and still feel uncertain? You are probably not missing knowledge. You are missing the right practice format.
What part of AD0-E720 is giving you the most trouble right now?

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MandyGeorge
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
MandyGeorgeCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
April 2, 2026

Yes, reading and understanding the questions being asked is extremely important for being able to pass these exams. A lot of implementation is very specific to what you want to track, how you want to report on the data, etc. So what could work (and be right) in one scenario might not be true in another. For me, the biggest challenge with the exams was understanding specifically how they word the questions, because that makes a huge difference. Doing the practice tests is the best way to understand how Adobe phrases questions.

The other thing I’ve found is that having hands on experience is far more valuable than reading the documentation. You can spend all day and night reading about it, but if you don’t have that practical experience, it’s going to be much harder to pass the exams. 

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