10 exam-style questions with answers and explanations, straight from our 1,030-question bank. Tap an answer to check yourself. When you're ready, take the scored version in the free practice test.
The AEMSAM exam has 50 questions and runs 1 hours 40 minutes.
These 10 free AEMSAM questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect Master blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
Content workshops establish that regional AEM sites must inherit future central product updates, while each region owns the warranty component on those same pages. A central rollout must not overwrite locally approved warranty wording. How should this agreement be expressed as a content-governance requirement?
Correct answer: B - Maintain Live Copy inheritance for shared content and cancel inheritance only for each locally owned warranty component.
A recovery sign-off states, "RTO and RPO passed." In the self-managed AEM rehearsal, service failed at 14:00, the newest recoverable repository state was from 13:52, and public journeys were validated and restored at 14:24. The agreed objectives are an RTO of 30 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes; no replay source can recover later changes. What is the defensible review finding?
Correct answer: C - RTO is met, but RPO is missed; provide a recovery source with a more recent recoverable data point.
A travel company maintains destination descriptions as typed fields for its native app and website. It also reuses a promotional banner, including its approved component arrangement, across several AEM landing pages. Descriptions and banners change independently. Which content design provides a single editorial source for each without forcing the app to consume page markup?
Correct answer: C - Use Content Fragments for destination records and an Experience Fragment for the composed promotional banner.
Publish logs show repeated execution of unchanged, public GraphQL searches for an AEM article catalogue. Clients send a fixed set of read-only queries with POST; results contain no visitor-specific data. The architect wants ordinary CDN and Dispatcher response caching rather than custom POST-caching logic. Which API change fits?
Correct answer: A - Persist the approved queries and execute them with GET under suitable HTTP cache policies.
Campaign planning for an AEM 6.5 site produces these figures: 1,600 eligible page requests/s arrive at the CDN, which serves 75% from cache; Dispatcher serves 60% of the remaining requests from cache. Two Publish instances are available, each proven at 200 requests/s within the required latency. Assume stable cache ratios and no other Publish traffic. What does the capacity check show after either Publish instance fails?
Correct answer: D - Sufficient capacity: 160 requests/s reach Publish, below the surviving instance's measured capacity.
Cutover is approaching for an AEM 6.5-to-Cloud migration. The initial Content Transfer Tool ingestion is complete and validated. Authors still work on the source; nobody authors on the target. A rehearsed final top-up and validation fit the approved content-freeze window, but a full transfer does not. Select the plan that preserves a consistent editorial handover.
Correct answer: B - Freeze source authoring, complete the final top-up and validation, then switch delivery and authoring to the target.
A custom AEM as a Cloud Service search service requires both endpoint and timeoutMs in its OSGi configuration. The source package contains the same PID in two folders: config.publish: endpoint="shared-search"; timeoutMs=800 config.publish.prod: endpoint="production-search" On production Publish, activation fails because timeoutMs is absent. What change fixes production without changing the other environments?
Correct answer: C - Add timeoutMs=800 to config.publish.prod so that its PID configuration contains both required properties.
An AEM as a Cloud Service release replaces the authored property headline with title. Existing pages contain only headline. Old and new application versions can coexist during rolling deployment, and rollback must remain possible. The team proposes renaming the stored property in its first release. Which sequence avoids breaking supported readers and writers?
Correct answer: D - Deploy support for both fields; backfill title and transition writers; retire headline only after all older readers and rollback dependencies expire.
Two authenticated customers requesting /account/summary.json receive the same customer's account details. With CDN and Dispatcher caching bypassed, each receives only their own data. Operators confirm that the exposure is confined to cached account responses and can immediately bypass and purge those objects. What should the incident lead do first?
Correct answer: D - Bypass account-response caching and purge those objects at both layers; preserve access logs and activate incident response.
Returning just 20 assets has become slow on a production AEM endpoint. The query already restricts its path and node type. Oak diagnostics show that thousands of candidates are read before a custom category restriction is applied, followed by in-memory sorting on releaseDate. The deployment is otherwise healthy. Where should the architect focus the correction?
Correct answer: A - Deploy a scoped index covering category filtering and defining releaseDate with ordered=true; verify that Oak selects it.
The full bank has 1,020 more AEMSAM questions with explanations.
Continue in the free practice test →
View plans