PrestaShop Expert Certification - Administrator Skills

The Administrator Skills certification assesses the advanced competencies required to operate and maintain a PrestaShop store in a production environment. It validates the ability to manage performance, security, deployments and technical stability according to PrestaShop standards.

Advanced Git workflows & CI/CD deployment

• Advanced mastery of Git workflows (Gitflow, trunk-based, branching strategies)
• PR/MR conventions (code review, pipelines, tests)
• CI/CD pipelines (build, tests, artifacts, cache, deployment)
• Automated deployments & rollback strategy

Environment management & configuration

• Principles of isolated environments (dev, pre-production, production)
• Server configuration adapted to context (PHP, cache, database, sessions)
• SSH access management: tunnels, private keys and permissions

Maintenance, updates & rollback strategy

• Maintenance strategy for a PrestaShop e-commerce site (patches, customizations, modules)
• Dependency management with Composer
• Maintenance windows and risk management
• Backup management (snapshots, incremental backups)

Security & best practices

• System permissions management (files, directories, processes)
• Securing sensitive files (settings.inc.php, .env, API keys)
• Applying security patches (PHP, PS Core, modules)
• Protection against vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, RCE)

Performance, logs & advanced diagnostics

• Reading and analyzing logs: web server, PHP-FPM, DB, reverse proxy.
• Identifying bottlenecks (SQL queries, heavy hooks, cache issues).
• Using profiling tools (Blackfire, Tideways, Lighthouse...).
• Best practices for monitoring, alerting and instrumentation.
• Incident management processes (diagnosis, containment, remediation).