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Forward Deploy Engineer Mastery (SML-851)
Scenario-based exam on working as an embedded Forward Deploy Engineer: discovery, domain capture, data integration, building operational applications, and deployment and hand-off.
- Passing score
- 70%
- Per attempt
- 12 questions
- Question pool
- 29
Content last updated Aug 15, 2026
Exam details
- Exam code
- SML-851
- Exam fee
- Free
- Item format
- Scenario-based questions
- Prerequisites
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience; comfort with at least one typed language (TypeScript, Java, Python with typing, or Go); familiarity with REST APIs, SQL, and basic data modeling
- Exam structure
- 12 questions per attempt, covering all 5 FDE mastery domains
- Target audience
- Software engineers moving toward customer-facing delivery roles, solutions/sales engineers, consultants, and new grads targeting Forward Deploy Engineer roles
Content domains
Expand a domain for what it covers and what you'll need to know.
The FDE Mindset & Embedded Delivery Model 12%
Discovery and Domain Capture 17%
Technical Foundations — Data, Integration & Security 23%
Building Operational Applications 23%
Deployment, Change Management & Executive Communication 25%
Official resources
Questions here are AI-generated from this course's public syllabus for independent practice — they are not the same questions used in the course's actual certification exam.