SC10 Questions

Question 1

What is the purpose of the “extranet” security domain?

Answer 1

The official definition from Sitecore is “it is the default domain and most user accounts will be extranet\anonymous when they visit the website”

Question 2

You have a placeholder included in the code of a rendering, however, when the rendering is placed on the site in Experience Editor, the authors do not have the ability to add controls to the placeholder, what could cause this?

Answer 2

placeholder settings item

Question 3

How do you debug a container?

Answer 3

Attach to the w3wp process associated with the container

Question 4

Some developers wish to use the Sitecore CLI and others Sitecore for Visual Studio.

Answer 4

This is totally fine, the two can be used together.

Question 5

A user was recently assigned a new role and now they cannot access a portion of the tree that was previously accessible, what happened?

Answer 5

The new role has an explicit deny-read permission.

Question 6

What does the <includes> element define with regards to serialization</includes>

Answer 6

The content path of the items to serialize.

Question 7

What if a module is not included in sitecore.json?

Answer 7

It will not be serialized during a push or pull.

Question 8

How do you push file changes to a web root that is outside of Visual Studio?

Answer 8

You use VS Publish to move files.

Question 9

How does the rendering host interact with the CD role?

Answer 9

The CD role is a web service endpoint that returns json object data via the layout service to the rendering host.

Question 10

You need to change the homepage for only a few days for a sale, how do you do it in the easiest way possible

Answer 10

Rely on Final layout to push a new version.

Question 11

Users are complaining about having to copy and paste data source queries from one component type to another. is there a way to resolve this?

Answer 11

Yes, edit the compatible renderings for each rendering definition

Question 12

How do you target a specific placeholder when editing presentation details?

Answer 12

Placeholder key

Question 13

How do you mark a field as read-only via Sitecore MVC helpers?

Answer 13

@Html.Sitecore().Field(“Field Name”, new { DisableWebEdit = true })

Question 14

Why do we use startup.cs in the rendering host?

Answer 14

To link a component name with its implementation

Question 15

If we use a view rendering, what property do we need to fill in?

Answer 15

The path to the cshtml file

Question 16

What is the best practice for assigning permissions in Sitecore?

Answer 16

Assign permissions to a role, then assign the role to users

Question 17

In the rendering host, which view type is best for navigation and login components?

Answer 17

Custom view component

Question 18

Which field type cannot use Html.Sitecore.Field(“field id”)?

Answer 18

Checkbox

Question 19

You have two rich text fields, each on a different template. You want to shift this field to a base template and have each template inherit the base. However, on one of the templates the rich text field must allow the “bold” option, while the other cannot. Is this possible?

Answer 19

No, since the “source” property must differ per template type you must separate this at the template level. You cannot move this field to a base template and still satisfy the requirements.

Question 20

Why would you use a multi-list field vs a droplist field?

Answer 20

A multi-list field lets the content author select more than one option.

Question 21

You must allow a content author to only select templates of type News Article as a data source for a rendering. Which field do you set?

Answer 21

Datasource Template

Question 22

Why would you use HOST_LICENSE_FOLDER over SITECORE_LICENSE environment variable?

Answer 22

Because when encoding the license it was too large and thus you must reference it via the folder

Question 23

What is a standard value?

Answer 23

A place to set the default value for fields on a template during item creation.

Question 24

Is it a good idea to set presentation details on an item level?

Answer 24

No, set them on standard values to give the content authors a good staring point when creating items

Question 25

You need to set the “Title” field to be the name of the item, how do you do it?

Answer 25

Set the Title field to “$name” on the standard value of the item template.

Question 26

You need to specify the order that configuration files are loaded, how do you do it?

Answer 26

Use the <loadOrder> element</loadOrder>

Question 27

You need to publish a single item, what are the two ways you can do this?

Answer 27

content editor and experience editor

Question 28

Why is there a master and web database?

Answer 28

So that content can be edited in master without affecting live content in web.

Question 29

What if we let content authors edit directly in web?

Answer 29

Bad idea because only one version would exist, disallows extra versions.

Question 30

How do we ensure model bound views are editable in experience editor?

Answer 30

Use standard Sitecore types when defining the properties, e.g. TextField, ImageField, on the model class.

Question 31

There is static content on every page. How do you configure it so that content authors cannot change the renderings in this placeholder?

Answer 31

You mark the placeholder as non-editable

Question 32

What is the best practice for where to put shared content in a multi-site scenario in the content tree?

Answer 32

You put it outside the roots of both sites in the content tree

Question 33

What should be the reason of this SIA installation error?

Answer 33

Invalid Solr Path