AEM Architect Questions Set 1

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1) A small public-sector organization engages you to assist in the architectural design of their AEM system. They have a small inexperienced staff that are very apprehensive about learning new technologies. What is the most important factor to consider as you plan the system design?

A) High Availability
B) Low Maintenance
C) Extensibility
D) Usability
E) Performance

Answer: D) Usability

2) In AEM 5.6 and above, which two scenarios require that the Sling Referrer Filter’s default configuration be changed? (Choose two.)

A) The SAML Authentication Handler is used to authenticate users.
B) The system host name does not match the external DNS name.
C) Automated scripts, using the curl command, will be executing HTTP PUT requests.
D) A javaScript widget on an external website will be posting comments to an AEM page

Answer:
A) The SAML Authentication Handler is used to authenticate users. 
D) A javaScript widget on an external website will be posting comments to an AEM page

3) A customer has asked you to incorporate measures to prevent content grabbing. Which two recommendations should be implemented? (Choose two.)

A) Configure Dispatcher allowedClients section
B) Configure Apache Sling GET Servlet
C) Configure Apache Sling POST Servlet
D) Configure Dispatcher filter section

Answer:
B) Configure Apache Sling GET Servlet
D) Configure Dispatcher filter section

4) A marketing company wants to provide AEM Authors with Dialog/Design Dialog in their native language. Which approach should be taken to ensure that non-authorable content can be presented in desired language?

A) Enclose non-author-able content within cq:text tag
B) Enclose non-author-able content within i18n API
C) Enclose non-author-able content within XSS API
D) Enclose non-author-able content within cq:include tag

Answer: B) Enclose non-author-able content within i18n API

5) A financial institution is identified as a business user. AEM/Campaigns/Segmentation rules must be based on the traits/data provided from the back end of the system. Which two types of information must be captured in the discovery session? (Choose two.)

A) Are there any traits that are combined to establish a segment?
B) How is back end service integrated to retrieve customer data?
C) In what format are segmentation traits retrieved?
D) What are keys/values for segmentation traits?

Answer:
B) How is back end service integrated to retrieve customer data?
C) In what format are segmentation traits retrieved?

6) Your customer asks you to create documentation based on a proposed solution architecture. The customer decides that they want to introduce blog and forum functionality and will need to add reverse replication agents to handle the moderation of data between the publish and author instances. Which two architectural diagrams will need to be modified to reflect these changes? (Choose two.)

A) Conceptual
B) Logical
C) Physical
D) Data Flow

Answer:  B) Logical and D) Data Flow

 7) Your client is a brick-and-mortor company, and has purchased AEM. Which application component is NOT well-suited to be implemented in AEM?

A) Training video site section as AEM does not bundle a video player
B) Training video site section as AEM is unable to record user interactions.
C) Store finder as AEM does not support geospatial search.
D) Store finder as AEM does not integrate with Google Maps.

Answer:
B) Training video site section as AEM is unable to record user interactions.
C) Store finder as AEM does not support geospatial search.

8) You have found out through your discovery of business requirements that some of the business requirements cannot be accomplished using standard out-of-the-box AEM components. Which requirement can be achieved with out-of-the-box components?

A) Display the top X requested pages in a site
B) Display the current temperature for a given location
C) Display a Google Maps interactive map for an authored location
D) Create an image carousel from a user selected number of pages

Answer: D) Create an image carousel from a user selected number of pages

 9) A software company wants to display the real-time price of their stock on their employee Intranet. The stock quote will be provided by a third-party vendor. Which two factors will be most relevant to the solution design for this capability? (Choose two.)

A) The name of the vendor providing the stock quote.
B) The ticket symbol of the company.
C) The payload format in which the stock price is returned from the vendor.
D) Authentication requirements imposed by the vendor.
E) Rate limits imposed by the vendor.

Answer:
C) The payload format in which the stock price is returned from the vendor.
E) Rate limits imposed by the vendor.

10) A news media company website has become unresponsive during a time of a day, which is generally considered an off-peak time. The AEM team responsible has investigated and identified DoS (Denial Of Service ) attack . Which two security measures will help reduce the chances of another attack? (Choose two.)

A) Implement a Dispatcher filter to only allow known selectors
B) Change the passwords for default out of the box users (admin , author)
C) Disable the default selectors .feed.xml and infinity.json
D) Uninstall all sample content and users that ships out of the box with AEM

Answer:
A) Implement a Dispatcher filter to only allow known selectors
C) Disable the default selectors .feed.xml and infinity.json

11) You have been tasked with documenting the flow of content from a system that provides real-time stock quotes to an AEM system for display. Which architectural diagram should you modify to show how each of the servers communicate and which ports are used?

A) Conceptual
B) Physical
C) Logical
D) Data-Flow

Answer: B) Physical

12) A customer wants to display icons next to the search results for keyword queries on their site based on the type of resulting document. What do you recommend they do?

A) Copy the entire foundation search component into their project under /apps and modify the search.jsp.
B) Make modifications to the search.jsp for the foundation component under /libs.
C) Create a new component under their /apps project called search with a sling:resourceSuperType of the foundation search component.
D) Create a matching folder structure under /apps for the search component with a custom search.jsp.

Answer: A) Copy the entire foundation search component into their project under /apps and modify the search.jsp.

13) Which metric about a customers existing CMS implementation is LEAST valuable when evaluating potential hosting environments?

A) CMS storage requirements
B) Percentage of requests offloaded by the CDN
C) CPU clock speed of the servers
D) Average daily requests of users visiting the site

Answer: C) CPU clock speed of the servers

14) A multi-national news company engages you to assist with the design and requirements on their project. The functionality requires having several external feeds to display breaking news and also any live scores for major sporting events. What is the most important factor concerning performance that will need to be considered for the proposed solution and functionality?

A) Authentication requirements from each feed
B) Each feed item requires three JCR nodes
C) The import frequency of the feed
D) The payload type in which the feeds are returned

Answer: C) The import frequency of the feed

15) An entertainment website contains the following features: a homepage with consistent toolbar and listing of articles by category; community page; and individual article pages containing a combination of text and images. End users are able to create new forums, browse article by category, login using a modal dialog box and search from toolbar. How many AEM templates would you expect to create?

A) Ten.
B) Seven.
C) Three.
D) Five.

Answer: D) Five

 16) A digital magazine publisher is migrating to AEM. Their current content management system was built in-house by staff developers, runs on top of a MySQL database, and uses forms for content editing. The business owners have stated that their primary interest in migrating to AEM is to have a more user-friendly page authoring interface. During discovery meetings with business owners and content authors, which is the most significant and relevant conceptual change from the current CMS?

A) That AEM allows authors to drag-and-drop components to build pages.
B) That AEM does NOT use a relational database.
C) That AEM uses a hierarchy-based repository.
D) That AEM is written in Java.

Answer: A) That AEM allows authors to drag-and-drop components to build pages.

 17) Which three statements about Multi Site Manager, Blueprint, and Live Copy functionality are true? (Choose three)

A) Live Copy can inherit from multiple Blueprints
B) Blueprint can have one or more Live Copies
C) Immediate children of Multi Site Manager (MSM) Blueprint root page are language branches
D) Live Copy of particular Blueprint inherit Rollout configuration configured on a Blueprint

Answer:
B) Blueprint can have one or more Live Copies
C) Immediate children of Multi Site Manager (MSM) Blueprint root page are language branches
D) Live Copy of particular Blueprint inherit Rollout configuration configured on a Blueprint

18) You are conducting a discovery on a client’s current CMS implementation. How would you identify which functionality is missing from their current implementation?

A) Use documentation provided by the client
B) Speak to the key stakeholders of the system and talk to them about how they use the system
C) Speak to the IT department of how the system is built
D) Gain access to the system and start going through code

Answer: B) Speak to the key stakeholders of the system and talk to them about how they use the system

19) The security team at your client wants to protect from repository content modification outside of their network on their publish servers. Which provides the LEAST protection against this specific threat?

A) Disable Sling POST Servlet and WebDAV functionality.
B) Use Dispatcher filter rules to block access to /apps and /libs
C) White-list specific HTTP methods and URIs required for application functionality.
D) Enforce very strong passwords on all systems and use SSL.

Answer:
D) Enforce very strong passwords on all systems and use SSL.

20) Which two business requirements can be achieved by using OOTB AEM components? (Choose two.)

A) An article has Facebook Like button; the number of clicks are stored in Adobe Social.
B) An article can be composed of an arbitrary combination of text, videos, and images.
C) A sidebar contains a list of PDF files which are tagged with the “Product Data Sheet” tag.
D) A store details page displays an embedded map from Bing Maps.

Answer:
A) An article has Facebook Like button; the number of clicks are stored in Adobe Social.
B) An article can be composed of an arbitrary combination of text, videos, and images.

21) A customer has installed AEM using an application server. The customer has asked you to implement HTTPS in their QA environment with an application server as well. Which three AEM components/configurations need to be changed relative to the QA environment? (Choose three)

A) Configure replication agents to use SSL
B) Install SSL version of dispatcher
C) Add secure flag to dispatcher configuration file
D) Configure the CQ servlet engine HTTP service to use SSL, using company certificate

Answer:
B) Install SSL version of dispatcher
C) Add secure flag to dispatcher configuration file
D) Configure the CQ servlet engine HTTP service to use SSL, using company certificate

22) In which type of architecture diagram would you be most likely to list the IP addresses of individual servers?

A) Conceptual
B) Logical
C) Data Flow
D) Physical

Answer: D) Physical

23) Which type of architecture diagram should you use to present application code and content flow?

A) Logical
B) Data Flow
C) Physical
D) Deployment

Answer: B) Data Flow

24) A large retail company has integrated AEM into their commerce stack. They would like to take advantage of the “ratings” component to allow logged In users to submit a product a rating. However, this company would like the tallied ratings to be shown only after a minimum number of submissions have taken place so that the results are not skewed too far positive or negative initially. Which reason best describe why the ratings component must be extended to meet these requirements?

A) A custom rating service must be created to support this functionality
B) Only the average rating is available via API
C) The author must be able to provide the minimum number of votes for display
D) The Tally/RatingComponent API does not provide the number of user responses

Answer: C) The author must be able to provide the minimum number of votes for display

25) A multi-national company initially rolls out their authoring tools and site in English speaking locations without regard to other languages. After realizing this requirement gap, you are tasked with augmenting the system to facilitate the authoring of content in French and adapting the resulting tools to enable other languages to be added at a later date. What is the name of the tool for managing translation dictionaries?

A) i18n
B) Internationalization Service
C) Translator
D) Dictionary

Answer: C) Translator

26) A project has a fixed budget and the deployment date cannot be moved. Which two steps may regrettably be pushed to post go-live at a greater risk to the project? (Choose two.)

A) Integration testing
B) Performance testing
C) Tough day testing
D) Unit Testing

Answer:
B) Performance testing
C) Tough day testing

27) Which Dispatcher settings restrict the IP addresses that can issue invalidation requests?

A) /allowedClients
B) /filter
C) /renders
D) /virtualhosts

Answer: A) /allowedClients

28) Which three business requirements can be implemented using AEM OOTB functionality/components/plugins? (Choose three.)

A) Ability to display list of completed workflow items
B) Ability to customize content using Twitter profile data
C) Ability to present and sort order status client side
D) Ability to provide ratings for particular page

Answer:
A) Ability to display list of completed workflow items
B) Ability to customize content using Twitter profile data
D) Ability to provide ratings for particular page

29) Which two requirements typically involve integration with a third-party service? 

(Choose two.)

A) Watermarked Image Generation.
B) Approval Workflow.
C) Coordinate-Based Store Locator.
D) Federated Authentication.

Answer:
C) Coordinate-Based Store Locator.
D) Federated Authentication.

30) A non-profit organization, that uses a content management system that uses a relational database to store content and HTML forms to input content, is planning to migrate to AEM. During the discovery sessions, business users expressed a major concern with their current authoring experience where they have to upload images as part of a form element which will be rendered on a page. Which AEM feature should be described to them to overcome their concern ?

A) AEM can store content in supported RDBMS
B) Authors can in place edit the content on the pages in edit mode
C) AEM can out put content in multiple formats (html , json)
D) Authors can search for images and drop them on to pages in edit mode

Answer: D) Authors can search for images and drop them on to pages in edit mode

31) You have been charged with optimizing the performance of the Home page of a website. The company requires the Home page content to be indexed by search engines. The technical design requires the Home page to NOT be cacheable as it displays a list of recently shared articles. This list is currently generated by using an AEM component which performs a real-time look-up to an API from a third-party company. Which solution will provide the most optimal user experience?

A) Replace the AEM component’s server side logic with a JavaScript widget provided by the third party.
B) Cache the home page using the Dispatcher and implement a cron job to remove the cached file every 15 minutes.
C) Replace the real-time API access with a scheduled job inside AEM which runs every 15 minutes to update the data and trigger a dispatcher cache flush.
D) Cache the rest of the home page and deliver the recently shared article list using AJAX.

Answer: D) Cache the rest of the home page and deliver the recently shared article list using AJAX.

 32) During a discovery workshop, a content editor requires the ability to publish any page for English and French versions of the website. You decide to create a group to set their permissions to replicate permissions on both the content/en and content/fr nodes. Why would you do this instead of putting the extra permission against the one specific user profile?

A) Groups are easier to administer and manage user access rights.
B) Groups provide greater granularity of control over users.
C) Groups integrate into third party security such as LDAP.
D) User privileges are NOT as powerful as group ones.

Answer: A) Groups are easier to administer and manage user access rights.

33) A packaged goods company is migrating their current site to AEM. Currently the company only has a presence in the US, but intends to expand into two other countries within 12 months of launch on AEM. Which two tasks should take this expansion goal into account? (Choose two.)

A) Site hierarchy definition
B) Component development
C) Workflow implementation
D) Content migration

Answer:
A) Site hierarchy definition
B) Component development

34) A large telecommunications company wants to leverage the capability of AEM to integrate with SAML. As part of this integration you are required to configure the SAML Authentication Handler. By default the SAML 2.0 Authentication handler is disabled. Which two properties must be set to ensure It is enabled? (Choose two.)

A) The identity provider POST URL
B) The Service Provide Entity ID
C) Public certificate of the identity provider
D) Service Ranking

Answer:
A) The identity provider POST URL
B) The Service Provide Entity ID

35) When conducting analysis during the discovery phase, a number of artifacts were obtained as outputs from activities such as surveys, questionnaires, and data gathering. Which is the least significant option?

A) Page load speed
B) Navigation structure
C) Content types that need to be migrated
D) Mobile and tablet display features

Answer: D) Mobile and tablet display features

 36) A news company wishes to use AEM for their content management needs. The company initially confirmed it would only provide news to subscribers within Australia. Six months later the company has expanded into the wider Asia region and now require Chinese and Korean language options. Which is the most important factor to consider when creating a solution for a CMS with multi-lingual requirement?

A) Maintaining a common look and feel
B) Site structure
C) Translation workflows
D) Creating a new language location for dictionary

Answer:
B) Site structure

37) AEM installs default groups and users. Which two are valid for the admin, anonymous, and author users? (Choose two.)

A) It is recommended keeping all three as default.
B) Modifying the anonymous account has additional security implications.
C) The password for the admin account should be changed from the default.
D) All of the default accounts should be deleted

Answer:
B) Modifying the anonymous account has additional security implications.
C) The password for the admin account should be changed from the default.

38) Which three requirements can be met by using AEM OOTB features/components? 

(Choose three.)

A) Use Google+ to personalize user content.
B) Hide pages within content hierarchy.
C) Index PDF documents uploaded to AEM repository.
D) Enter additional data while approving workflow content.

Answer:
B) Hide pages within content hierarchy.
C) Index PDF documents uploaded to AEM repository.
D) Enter additional data while approving workflow content.

39) Your customer has acquired multiple companies that operate autonomously and want to use AEM to host all of their websites. How should the author users be grouped?

A) Company-specific groups for workflow approval steps and general groups for content editing.
B) General groups for workflow approval and content editing.
C) Separate company-specific groups for both content editing and workflow approval steps.
D) Default AEM groups for workflow approval and company-specific groups for content editing.

Answer: C) Separate company-specific groups for both content editing and workflow approval steps.

 40) You have been given the task of integrating your AEM authoring system to authenticate with your company’s Active Directory (AD) directory service. Which Java security framework is used to configure the LoginModule used by the identity provider?

A) OWASP
B) PAM
C) JAAS
D) Apache Shiro

Answer: C) JAAS