XM Cloud Exam

Question 1

The default value for the scope property in CLI

Answer 1

ItemAndDescendants

Question 2

Out-of-box technology is offered in xm cloud.

Answer 2

React

Question 3

What parameter value is required for serializing the current item and its next level items.

Answer 3

Scope

Question 4

How to delete or remove admin access of a user in sitecore cloud portal

Answer 4

Organization owner or admin can delete or remove access in cloud portal (options are similar like organisation owner or admin from xm cloud deploy, owner or admin from sitecore cloud portal.

Question 5

Where do the templates need to be created to be identified by experience edge

Answer 5

Under feature/foundation/project/user defined

Question 6

Question on getting the item name as a field value

Answer 6

Use $name token

Question 7

what access to give for the user who wants to have access to only specific apps

Answer 7

Organization user (options mentioned are organisation user in xm cloud deploy app or organisation user in cloud portal)

Question 8

What is the immediate step to do after creating a mulitlist type field in the template

Answer 8

Provide source for selection of items for that field

Question 9

What is required to connect remote xm cloud instance to local xm cloud

Answer 9

Add the Sitecore.Pages.LocalXmCloudUrl with the value localhost in the local storage

Question 10

What could be the issue if local xm cloud URL is not working

Answer 10

SITECORE_Pages_CORS_Allowed_Origins is not configured with the value pages.sitecore.cloudio

Question 11

What is the webhook can use when item using the workflow moves from one state to another

Answer 11

Webhook submit action (options mentioned are submit handler, ssubmit action) remember exact terminology to avoid confusion

Question 12

What to do to in experience edge to reflect the content when a datasource item content changed

Answer 12

publish the data source item (there is option to publish the related items as well but in XM cloud publishing context might publish all related items when we choose the datasource items)

Question 13

Question on clearing cache of content in Experience edge

Answer 13

Use clearcahe for tenant endpoint

Question 14

Which mutation will be used to create an item

Answer 14

createItem

Question 15

If source code is not in GIT repository, how to deploy to XM cloud

Answer 15

use sitecore CLI

Question 16

How does SCS publishes the items during the deployment to XM cloud

Answer 16

IAR - Item as a Resource

Question 17

What is the role required for developer to use graphql IDE

Answer 17

sitecore client user role

Question 18

Question like What is the use of rendering variants

Answer 18

Display the data in different ways

Question 19

If a component needs to display content in different ways (image right and text, image left and text, image center and text)

Answer 19

Create a single component with three different variants

Question 20

Configure renderings to use rendering parameter

Answer 20

inherit IDynamicPlaceholder and define place holder setting in layout service.

Question 21

What happens when the current template and the inherited template has the fields with the same name

Answer 21

Those fields will be duplicated in the data item

Question 22

What happens when the grid changes after site development(something like this)

Answer 22

It breaks the site

Question 23

What are the must do things to configure device in XM cloud pages

Answer 23

Device width, visibility and icon (options mention as Device height, visiblilty, icon - have to choose carefully)

Question 24

Question on how to view access

Answer 24

Access viewer

Question 25

Script to use remove site collection folder

Answer 25

Remove site collection folder

Question 26

What are the things get configured during provisioning step of deployment

Answer 26

CM instance and exp edge (one more option has editing host as well but I dont think editing host is applicable in provision step)

Question 27

Question on serializing items when items has any changes

Answer 27

Using watch command

Question 28

query { layout(site: “experienceedge”, routePath: “/”, language: “en”) { item { homeItemPath: path contentRoot: parent { id path } } }}

Answer 28

Get the root item of a site

Question 29

What is the difference between SXA components and headless components

Answer 29

???

Question 30

How to configure a headless page when developer wants to assign specific component at specific location.

Answer 30

for a placeholder like headless-footer restrictions are applied on layout level (sitecore/layout/–) then how will the placeholder restrictions apply on the pages (will restrictions be applied on all sites or specific site or specific page)

Question 31

A multinational company have different brands in different countries. How to setup site for each region (rendering host related question)

Answer 31

different rendering host deployed for each site

Question 32

A multination company have different brands in different regions and different countries in multiple languages. How to setup Site structure

Answer 32

select option which have different site folders for each brand and each site folder containing different sites for different regions (choose whatever option suits best)

Question 33

what is sitecore.json file

Answer 33

???

Question 34

How to configure dynamic placeholder

Answer 34

Link placeholder setting to rendering item, include IDynamicplaceholder base template in parameter template

Question 35

Why to assign security to roles instead of users.

Answer 35

???

Question 36

Access we see in sitecore security editor (like read, write, inheritance)

Answer 36

???

Question 37

Where can we exclude the items in sitecore serialization

Answer 37

Sitecore.json file

Question 38

Where can we create data templates

Answer 38

Content editor (not pages)

Question 39

Default scope in content serialization

Answer 39

Item & Descendants

Question 40

How can a developer verify the error during the deployment

Answer 40

Deployment log

Question 41

Question related to publising pipeline, steps it will follow

Answer 41

Add the missing items, calculate dependencies, resolve dependencies (multiple options have to be selected), It will NOT ARCHIEVE anything so dont select that option.

Question 42

In content tree if a developer is not able to see template and layout what could be the reason?

Answer 42

hidden items checkbox is not unchecked