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AEM Certification Questions with Correct
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What contains all of AEM's APIs Answer: Uber-jar
<sly data-attribute-class="A" class="B"> outputs what HTML?
Answer: "Data-anything" is treated as private data and does not
appear in the HTML on the page
Where in the sys console do you go to find custom logs? Answer:
Sling>>Log Support
Where in the sys console do you go to find the output of the
standard error log? Answer: Status>>Log Files
What is the name of the OOTB AEM logging configuration? Answer:
Apache Sling Logging Configuration
How do you turn on remote debugging without changing the
startup script? Answer: Set CQ_JVM_OPTS in your terminal profile.
In your ~/.bash_profile add: export CQ_JVM_OPTS="-server -
Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Djava.awt.headless=true -
Xdebug -
Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8765"
You want to install an author instance on port 6302. What should
you name the jar? Answer: Cq-author-p6302
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A server is running slowly. How should a developer monitor server
usage? Answer: Go to operations>monitoring and create a new
measurement of Sessions
Give two ways you can create an authenticated Session. Answer:
Create a custom Java class that implements Interface
AuthenticationHander?
How do you watch a node for a change? Answer: Can use a
Workflow Launcher to detect a page has been modified and
automatically launch a Workflow
In a Sling model, @ValueMapValue variable X causes a NPE when it
does not exist. Do you put @Default or make all variables
.REQUIRED? Answer: Probably an @Default because maybe you
don't want every variable to be required.
Overlaying vs inheriting/extending. When should you do which?
Answer: If you extend and AEM upgrades to a higher version, you
can inherit the new features.
If you unlock an element on a template, what happens to it? It stays
in the same place. It moves to "initial." it is copied to "initial." It gets
deleted? Answer: Its content will be moved to initial content and
therefore won't show up anymore on existing pages that reference
this template.
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AEM Certification Questions with Correct
Answers | Updated (100% Correct Answers)
What contains all of AEM's APIs Answer: Uber-jar
<sly data-attribute-class="A" class="B"> outputs what HTML?
Answer: "Data-anything" is treated as private data and does not
appear in the HTML on the page
Where in the sys console do you go to find custom logs? Answer:
Sling>>Log Support
Where in the sys console do you go to find the output of the
standard error log? Answer: Status>>Log Files
What is the name of the OOTB AEM logging configuration? Answer:
Apache Sling Logging Configuration
How do you turn on remote debugging without changing the
startup script? Answer: Set CQ_JVM_OPTS in your terminal profile.
In your ~/.bash_profile add: export CQ_JVM_OPTS="-server -
Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Djava.awt.headless=true -
Xdebug -
Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8765"
You want to install an author instance on port 6302. What should
you name the jar? Answer: Cq-author-p6302
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A server is running slowly. How should a developer monitor server
usage? Answer: Go to operations>monitoring and create a new
measurement of Sessions
Give two ways you can create an authenticated Session. Answer:
Create a custom Java class that implements Interface
AuthenticationHander?
How do you watch a node for a change? Answer: Can use a
Workflow Launcher to detect a page has been modified and
automatically launch a Workflow
In a Sling model, @ValueMapValue variable X causes a NPE when it
does not exist. Do you put @Default or make all variables
.REQUIRED? Answer: Probably an @Default because maybe you
don't want every variable to be required.
Overlaying vs inheriting/extending. When should you do which?
Answer: If you extend and AEM upgrades to a higher version, you
can inherit the new features.
If you unlock an element on a template, what happens to it? It stays
in the same place. It moves to "initial." it is copied to "initial." It gets
deleted? Answer: Its content will be moved to initial content and
therefore won't show up anymore on existing pages that reference
this template.
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