Adobe Experience Manager Technical Foundations Professional Free Sample Questions
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Covers managing and replicating content pages, building components and editable templates, installing bundles and packages, and maintaining user access and OSGi configurations.
8 free sample questions90 in the full practice test
An author accidentally deleted a critical component on an AEM Site page and published it. They need to restore the page to how it looked yesterday. Which built-in AEM feature is best suited for this task?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A
AEM automatically creates versions of pages based on configuration or manual triggers (like publishing). The Timeline rail allows authors to view previous versions and restore the page to a specific point in time. Blueprint Rollout is for MSM, Dispatcher Cache Flush clears cached files, and Package Manager is an administrative tool for moving content, not for quick author rollbacks.
Q2Question 2
Intermediate
Content Creation · Page hierarchy and site structure
True or False: When an author moves a page within the AEM Sites hierarchy using the Move operation, AEM automatically updates all internal links referencing that page across the repository, provided the reference update option is selected.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A
This is True. AEM features a robust reference tracking system. When a page or asset is moved using the standard AEM UI Move wizard, the system identifies all incoming internal links and can automatically rewrite them to point to the new path, preventing broken links.
Q3Question 3
Advanced
Content Creation · Replication agents
You are managing a global e-commerce AEM environment with a complex author-publish topology. The architecture consists of one Author instance, two Publish instances, and two Dispatchers serving traffic to different geographic regions.
Recently, the marketing team launched a flash sale. Authors reported that when they activated the new promotional pages, the content correctly appeared on the Publish instances. However, end-users in certain regions still saw the old, cached version of the homepage for up to 12 hours.
You have verified that the replication queue from the Author to both Publish instances is clear and successful. You also confirmed that the Dispatchers are running and serving traffic correctly.
Which configuration is most likely missing or misconfigured in this topology causing the stale content issue?
flowchart LR
A[AEM Author] -->|Replication| P1[Publish 1]
A -->|Replication| P2[Publish 2]
P1 -->|?| D1[Dispatcher 1]
P2 -->|?| D2[Dispatcher 2]
D1 --> U[End Users]
D2 --> U
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D
The Dispatcher Flush agent is responsible for sending invalidation requests to the Dispatcher when content is activated. In a standard setup, this agent is configured on the Publish instances to notify their respective Dispatchers that the cache is stale. If this agent is misconfigured or missing, the Dispatcher will continue to serve cached content until the TTL expires, even though the Publish instance has the updated content.
Q4Question 4
Beginner
Content Creation · Forward and reverse replication
In a traditional AEM architecture, what is the primary purpose of a Reverse Replication agent?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C
Reverse replication is used to bring User-Generated Content (UGC), such as comments or forum posts, from the Publish tier back to the Author tier so it can be managed and subsequently replicated to other Publish instances. Modern AEM implementations often use AEM Communities with a common store (MSRP/ASRP) instead, but traditional reverse replication serves this specific UGC retrieval purpose.
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