Free AD0-E117: Adobe Experience Manager Architect Master Exam Questions and Answers

Last updated: September 19, 2026

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1. Question #1

   Refer to the exhibit. A customer with an existing AEM implementation wants to enrich product pages with technical data coming from their PIM system. The PIM system sits behind an API Management solution that publicly exposes the PIM API's as RESTful web services with basic authentication as the security mechanism. Data consistency with the PIM and secure access to the APIs are key elements of the integration. How should the Architect set up the integration between AEM and the PIM?

   
   • A. Integrate the AEM Publishers directly with the API Management solution
   • B. Use a client-side integration with AJAX from the browser to the API Management
   • C. Import the technical data into the AEM Author and replicate to Publishers
   • D. Convert the technical data to Content Fragments and expose using Content Services
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2. Question #2

   A client is using AEM and wants to make sure they are managing their configurations correctly. Refer to the following requirements: The client has multiple brands that they will be hosting on a single AEM implementation The client wants to reuse as much between brands as possible Each brand needs to be able to override the default values for items like contact us information The client plans to support multiple languages in multiple regions for each brand Each brand/language/region combination will have its own set of content approvers used as part of a custom workflow Which approach should an Architect recommend to manage the client's configurations for AEM?

   • A. Use the OOTB Configuration Browser to set configuration defaults and approval group by brand/language/region combination.
   • B. Use Context-aware configurations to manage configuration overrides and approval group by brand/language/region combination.
   • C. Use OSGi to manage approval group and provide default contact us information by runmode.
   • D. Use OSGi Configuration to handle configuration overrides by brand. Create a new workflow for each brand/language/region combination for content approval.
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3. Question #3

   A customer wants to migrate their AEM environment from an on-premise infrastructure to a public cloud to improve performance. The customer currently hosts many assets (images, videos, documents) in the DAM. Approximately 10 business users frequently upload new assets and update existing assets. Editors then use these assets on the sites. What should an Architect do as part of this migration?

   • A. Move to a shared datastore and enable binary less replication
   • B. Set up Connected Assets to share the DAM assets in the sites
   • C. Set up a horizontally scalable AEM environment on MongoDB
   • D. Run online revision cleanup before moving to the new storage format
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4. Question #4

   An Architect is performing infrastructure and capacity planning for Author servers for a customer using AEM 6.5. Which two factors would lead the Architect to pick a multi-author instance architecture setup? (Choose two.)

   Select 2 answers.

   • A. Website Traffic handled by servers
   • B. Fail safeness of the servers
   • C. Number of Parallel Authors
   • D. Cache Efficiency on the dispatcher
   • E. Types of actions performed by Authors
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5. Question #5

   A customer is about to go live with a new website on AEM on prem. The DNS (www.domain.com) already points to the load balancer of the AEM environment and final sanity checks are being performed. The website was tested in lower environments without SSL On production, the website is served over https. During sanity testing, all requests result in a 404. While investigating this issue, an Architect determines the following: • The requests land on port 443 on the load balancer where SSL is terminated and an HTTP header X-Forwarded-Proto is set • The website Sling Mapping is created beneath /etc/map/http/www.domain.com.80 • The URLs on the website are externalized with http in the absolute links Which two actions should the Architect take to resolve this problem? (Choose two.)

   Select 2 answers.

   • A. Ensure the Sling Mapping exist at /etc/map/https/www.domain.com.80
   • B. Ensure the Sling Mapping exist at /etc/map/http/www.domain.com.443
   • C. Configure the Adobe Granite SSL Connector Factory with the correct SSL port
   • D. Configure Apache Felix Http Service SSL Filter to use the correct SSL forward header
   • E. Ensure the Sling Mapping exist at /etc/map/https/www.domain.com.443
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6. Question #6

   A client is in the discovery process for building a React native app, which is a single codebase that runs natively on iOS and Android. The goal is to reduce development costs. The client wants to reduce content creation costs in the new react Native app by reusing as much of the marketing content already publish in their AEM instance. What should the Architect recommend to meet this requirement?

   • A. Experience Fragments
   • B. OSGi Bundles
   • C. Sling Resource Resolution
   • D. Content Fragments
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7. Question #7

   An existing AEM sites platform will receive the latest service pack. The service pack includes functional and non-functional fixes such as security patches. Which action should the Architect take to make sure the update is successful?

   • A. Advise the customer to request Adobe to install the fixes directly on production since they are prechecked.
   • B. Install the service pack in staging and ensure that all the bundles are up and running, then deploy to production.
   • C. Identify the packages affected by the service pack after installing them into production and monitor them.
   • D. Do a full staging of the service pack including a regression test, if passed, deploy to production.
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8. Question #8

   A client is modernizing some of their AEM sites to go from static to editable templates so they can use the latest features around has the following parameters: • The client currently has a dozen static templates that they want to move to editable templates. • The existing pages use the parsys paragraph system for storing components. • Each page based on one of the static templates has its own custom properties tab that is unique for that template type. • The client wants template authors to be able to create the editable templates. Which approach should an Architect use to meet these requirements?

   • A. * 1. Use a new page component for editable templates based on the core components page component* 2. Migrate page properties to respective components dialogues
   • B. * 1. Use a new page component for editable templates based on the core components page component* 2. Convert page properties to policies
   • C. * 1. Use the same page components for editable templates* 2. Use a new template type for each static template
   • D. * 1. Use the same page components for editable templates* 2. Create a new editable template based on each of the existing page components
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9. Question #9

   A retail customer with an international presence and both in-store and online sales needs a new assets platform. The customer decides to use AEM assets. The customer's sites will continue to run on their proprietary CMS for websites. The customer wants to be able to scale the platform for spikes in user traffic such as on local sales or online marketing campaigns. Under some circumstances, the customer also has a higher load of editors for a certain period of time. Which architecture should an Architect use for this business case?

   • A. An AEM Publish instance on Adobe Managed Services with auto scaling
   • B. An AEM as a Cloud Service Sites with Dynamic Media
   • C. An AEM Assets setup on Adobe Managed Services with Cloud Manager
   • D. An AEM as a Cloud Service Assets setup using the combined CDN for delivery
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10. Question #10

    A customer has an international presence and a strong brand image. The customer considers the exceptional quality images used for both print and on the website to be essential for its business, The customer uses AEM 6.5 managed services with a configuration of 2 dispatchers, 2 publishers, and 1 author. The original images can weigh up to 500Mb with videos weighing even more. Renditions are generated after files are uploaded to AEM DAM by the Design team so the Authoring team can use them on the website. The teams report issues with platform stability and slowness. Visitors report that images look pixelated on some screens and pages are very slow to load. Which two actions should the Architect take to resolve these issues? (Choose two.)

    Select 2 answers.

    • A. Train the design team to upload smaller assets and save the originals elsewhere
    • B. Allocate more memory to ImageMagick and FFmpeg
    • C. Optimize renditions for the different viewports used by the visitors
    • D. Split AEM Assets and Sites in two different stacks and use Connected Assets
    • E. Add more dispatchers and publishers to the AEM configuration
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