Advanced SML-851 ⏱ 14 weeks 📚 20 topics

Forward Deploy Engineer Mastery: From Customer Site to Production Impact Certification

A complete career-grade course for aspiring Forward Deploy Engineers (FDE). Learn the embedded-engineer model, discovery and domain capture, on-site data plumbing, operational app building, deployment, and the soft skills that separate good FDEs from great ones.

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What You'll Demonstrate

  • Explain the FDE role and where it fits in modern enterprise software delivery
  • Run discovery interviews with non-technical stakeholders and extract a workable problem statement
  • Capture a customer domain as a typed object/link/action model
  • Scope and ship a value-delivering MVP inside a single sprint
  • Integrate against legacy enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, mainframe exports, broken CSVs)
  • Build operational applications that operators actually adopt
  • Deploy AI and agentic workflows responsibly on top of customer data
  • Deploy to production at a customer site — including rollback, dual-running, and adoption
  • Communicate progress and risk to executives in writing and in person
  • Run a complete 6-week FDE engagement end to end

Topics Covered by This Exam

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What is a Forward Deploy Engineer?

45 minutes

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The Embedded Delivery Model

60 minutes

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The FDE Deployment Loop

60 minutes

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Stakeholder Discovery and Interviewing

75 minutes

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Domain Capture: Turning Conversations into a Model

90 minutes

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MVP Scoping Under Ambiguity

75 minutes

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7

Data Plumbing in the Wild

90 minutes

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8

Designing the Semantic Layer

90 minutes

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9

API and Integration Patterns

75 minutes

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10

Working on Customer Infrastructure Securely

75 minutes

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11

Building Operational Applications

90 minutes

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12

Low-Code Plus Pro-Code

75 minutes

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13

Agentic Workflows and AI in FDE Deployments

90 minutes

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14

Dashboards, Reports, and Operator UX

75 minutes

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15

Deploying to Production at the Customer

90 minutes

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Change Management and Adoption

75 minutes

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Hand-off to the Customer Team

75 minutes

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Executive Communication

60 minutes

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19

Navigating Procurement, Security, and Legal

60 minutes

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Capstone: A 6-Week Simulated Engagement

360 minutes

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Adaptive Exam Format

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Progressive Difficulty

Questions advance from Easy → Medium → Hard as you proceed through the exam

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Single & Multi Select

Mix of single-answer and multi-answer questions to assess depth of knowledge

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Randomised Bank

Questions are drawn randomly from a larger question bank — no two exams are the same

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Badge & Certificate

Digital badge and printable certificate issued immediately upon passing