AEM 6.

4 Developer Exam

1. The Adobe certification for component developer have questions from 4 sections (At the end they
provide individual score for below):
1. Content management fundamentals
2. Installation configurations
3. Building Components
4. Working with OSGi

Total number of questions 52.

I prepared by reading Adobe basic Developer training notebook and Adobe Advance developer training. It
would be better to go through the Adobe system administrator training notebook, if you have one.
Even if you don't read the notebooks or manuals and have genuine experience in CQ/AEM, you can easily
clear the exam/certification. Mostly all questions were practical.

5. Purpose of Config Admin Service (Displayed when the configuration tab/option is

selected)
6. How to debug the client libraries, Have debugClientLibs=true as a request param
7. Which method is used in workflow process step. i.e when extended from
workflowProcess class
8. What the user and password field denote in the trasport tab of replication agent
9. Possible to set replicationAgentId in ReplicationOptions class which is used during
replication
10. Purpose of categories properties in client libraries
11. What happens if we overwrite the configurations in crx for the osgi configuration and
miss one of the property, while defining the property in CRX
12. Differnece between using selector and query parameter
13. Purpose of setHandler in Dispatcher configuration
14. What happens if configure CrxLoginModule in ldap.config file
15. How to install CQ as windows service
16. How an author will edit the page which is part of the workflow process.
17. Purpose of invalidate cache option in dispatcher configuration
18. How to inherit dialog structure? using xtype cqinclude
19. Purpose of the exclamation mark in security console on the permissions checkbox
20. Where to define under apps the sling:osgi or crx configurations? under config node
21. Where are the bundles installed in the apps hierarchy
22. Purpose of .bnd file in bundles
23. Script evaluation if we inherit from a component having main.jsp with include of script1,
script2 and script3 and we need to overwrite script2 in the inheriting component, How to do this
24. Purpose of @component annotation
25. Purpose of Event.topics property
26. Proper syntax taglib directive for including the cq taglibrary
27. Where are the osgi configuration stored in file system, if user edit them from osgi console
28. Evaluation order of osgi configuration on cq start up?
29. Differnce between dialog and design dialog in terms of content saving

Let me know if you need any help or clarification. Its not that tough for an experienced CQ/AEM guy.

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 The test was pretty easy, covers most of the stuff that would have been done on a normal CQ project. Here
are the questions that i can remember (Almost same language as used in exam) -
1. Which option do you need to add to the Java-based crx-quickstart command to specify
that you will be using an LDAP authentication?
2. How do you create a configuration for an OSGi bundle within CRX that is specific to
only the author instance?
3. Which method of the ResourceResolver Interface uses resources mapping to retrieve
property values?
4. How does the OSGi installer manage a bundle if a bundle with the same symbolic name is
already installed?
5. How do you create a design dialog for a CQ component?
6. You want to use a different page properties dialog instead of the one out of the box. How
do you configure it?
7. purpose of a Closed User Group?
8. How do you specify dependencies for your CQ HTML client library?
9. Question with servlet declaration specifying all properties of servlet and option to choose
which one is used when servlet is registered? A: Path one
10. On adding or updating the configuration of an OSGi component using the Apache Felix
Web Console, how long does it take for the configuration to be updated?A: Immediately
11. Script evaluation if we inherit from a component having main.jsp with include of script1,
script2 and script3 and we need to overwrite script2 in the inheriting component, How to do this
12. What are the two attributes of an Event in an OSGi Event Admin Service? A: Listener
and Filters.
13. When does a RESTful request with a suffix get cached? A: Only if it doesn't contain
query parameters.
14. How do you delete a property inside a Node object?
15. Osgi-Config - Which name should the factory configuration node have?
16. What are resources called that are passed through a workflow? A: Payload
17. A change in a JSP is NOT being reflected. How do u fix it? A: Delete generated class file
in /var
18. Definition/Scope of OSGi installer service?
19. Dispatcher filter question with a sample configuration provided, options to relate the rule
that will get applied.
20. How do u create a custom xType?
21. Which flag should you set when you configure the mod_rewrite rules of the Apache Web
server with dispatcher? A: [PT]
22. How to - process script to automatically advance the workflow to the next step after
execution? A: Handler Advance
23. How to get a JSON representation of content? A: use .json extension
24. purpose of the Export Package Manifest header?
25. How to get title of pages below a given page? A: Get PageManager from
resourceResolver and then use it for the processing the child pages.
26. How to view request information sent to the server? A: Felix console
27. What does the check box Use for reverse replication in the Agent Settings dialog mean?
28. Interface used to extend for creating a custom Java workflow step?
29. resourceSuperType to be used for extending textimage component? A:
foundation/components/textimage
30. What is the best practice to create the additional language sites? A: Use Language copy
tool
31. You have successfully installed CRX and crx-launchpad on Websphere Application
Server. How do you install CQ5? A: Install CQ using content packages
32. Question on usage of mixinType
33. difference between an OSGI bundle and a Java package?
34. You are logged in as userA and you are impersonating userB. How are your activities
logged in the access.log?
35. Image caching question? A: Check Option that uses all selectors
36. Which service property does an Event Subscriber need to subscribe to an Event Handler
in the OSGi Event Admin service? A: event.topic
37. You want to create a page with the CQ PageManager. The parent path does NOT yet
exist. Which template is assigned to the parent pages? A: Exception will be thown
38. How do you disable WebDAV access on the publish instance?
39. What does the Configuration Admin Service in OSGi provide?
40. How do you get the current rendering mode within a CQ component script?
41. How do you get the versionManager object?
42. What is the file js.txt used for in clientlibs?
43. Which is the correct JSP Tag Library Directive to include the standard CQ Tag Library?
44. What requests get listed in recent request? A: All request to publish
45. Question on dispatcher docroot path? A: Any path accessible to webserver
46. For response time of a request for a page. Which log file should you choose?
47. You want to add a new tab to the page properties dialog. What should you do?
48. When does CQ automatically create a version in a default CQ installation (author and
publish instance)?

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