AD0-E124 practice exam and study guide
Adobe Experience Manager DevOps Engineer Expert
Timed practice tests for AD0-E124 on the real exam's time limit and blueprint. Every question is original and every option is explained. Your score is broken down by the sections Adobe publishes, so you see what to study next. The question bank holds hundreds of practice questions.
Exam facts
- Passing score: 30/50 [1]
- Time limit: 100 minutes [1]
- Level: Expert [1]
- Exam fee: $225 (global) / $150 (India) [1]
- Exam languages (real exam): English, Japanese [1]
- Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access) [1]
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Exam sections and weights
Adobe publishes these sections and objectives for AD0-E124, quoted here as Adobe words them. [1]
Section 1: Configure Adobe Experience Manager, 18% of the exam
- "Determine the correct method to configure fundamental Adobe Experience Manager settings"
- "Given a scenario, troubleshoot Adobe Experience Manager issues"
- "Determine the correct method to configure OSGi"
Section 2: Operate Cloud Manager and Cloud Manager API, 20% of the exam
- "Determine the correct method to manage Cloud Manager Environments settings via UI"
- "Determine the correct method to provision programs and environments on Cloud Manager"
- "Determine the correct method to migrate to Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service"
- "Determine the correct method to set up integrations on Adobe I/O"
Section 3: Configure the web proxy infrastructure, 12% of the exam
- "Determine the correct method to manage Dispatcher configurations"
- "Given a scenario, troubleshoot caching issues"
Section 4: Build and deployments, 28% of the exam
- "Determine the correct method to manage Cloud Manager deployments"
- "Given a scenario, analyze the state of a Cloud Manager pipeline"
- "Determine the correct method to manage content packages across multiple Adobe Experience Manager instances"
- "Determine the correct method to make changes to Maven files to support pipelines"
Section 5: Monitor and report on quality metrics, 14% of the exam
- "Determine the correct method to collect performance metrics and reports"
- "Determine the correct method to scale infrastructure"
Section 6: Operate the Admin Console, 8% of the exam
- "Determine the correct method to submit a support request in the Admin Console"
- "Determine the correct method to configure federated SSO and sync Adobe Experience Manager users and groups"
Sample questions
Three questions from the AD0-E124 practice bank, with the answer and why each option is right or wrong.
Question 1
A DevOps engineer at a regional insurer plans to store a certificate chain of about 3,000 characters as one secret environment variable that an OSGi configuration in Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service reads. Can the engineer store the chain this way?
- A. Yes, because only the name is limited, to 100 characters.
- B. Yes, because a secret value can hold up to 4096 characters.
- C. Yes, because the 2048 character limit covers plain values only.
- D. No, because any value is capped at 2048 characters.
Answer: D. Placeholder values have one ceiling: 2048 characters, for environment specific and secret values alike. Names have a separate limit of 2 to 100 characters. [2]
- A. Wrong. The 100 character maximum governs the name. Values carry their own limit of 2048 characters.
- B. Wrong. There is one value limit, 2048 characters, and no larger figure for secrets.
- C. Wrong. The variable naming section applies to both environment specific and secret configuration values. Secrets get no exemption.
- D. Right. Values for these variables must not exceed 2048 characters, and the rule covers environment specific and secret values alike.
Question 2
A Business Owner must replace one of the two additional publish regions on the production environment of an Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service program with a region nearer to new customers. The other additional region keeps serving traffic. How should the Business Owner make the change in Cloud Manager?
- A. Add the new region and remove the old one in one edit, then save once.
- B. Edit the staging environment to swap the region, then promote the change.
- C. Add the new region and save, then edit the environment again to remove the old one.
- D. Change the primary region in the edit dialog, then add the old one as an additional region.
Answer: C. A swap of additional publish regions takes two saves: add the new region and save, then remove the old one, or remove first and then add. Edit the regions on the production environment; the change applies to staging as well. [3]
- A. Wrong. To add one region and remove another, you first add, save your changes, and then remove, or the reverse. The two changes go in separate saves.
- B. Wrong. Changes to multiple publish regions can only be edited in the production environment, and they apply to both production and staging.
- C. Right. Add the new region and save your changes, then edit again to remove the old region. The reverse order also works. Each save is its own transaction.
- D. Wrong. The primary region cannot be changed after the environment is created. Only the additional publish regions can be added or removed.
Question 3
A DevOps engineer adds `opt-in/USE_SOURCES_DIRECTLY` to a Dispatcher project for Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service that ran in legacy mode. Local validation with the latest Dispatcher tools passes, and production traffic is heavy. What should the engineer do next?
- A. Deploy the file to production first, and copy the configuration back to the development environments.
- B. Commit the file to a branch the production pipeline deploys, and test on stage and production.
- C. Commit the file to a branch the non-production pipeline deploys, and test on a development environment.
- D. Open a support ticket to switch production to flexible mode, and commit the file only after that.
Answer: C. A Dispatcher project moves from legacy mode to flexible mode when it holds `opt-in/USE_SOURCES_DIRECTLY`. The safe path has three stages: test locally with the latest Dispatcher tools, deploy through the non-production pipeline to a cloud development environment and test, then deploy through the production pipeline to stage and production, testing again on stage. In flexible mode, use relative paths. [4]
- A. Wrong. Production comes last, after testing on a cloud development environment and on stage.
- B. Wrong. Testing on a cloud development environment comes before the production pipeline. The configuration must behave as expected there before it reaches higher environments.
- C. Right. After local testing, the file goes to a Git branch that the non-production pipeline deploys to a cloud development environment. After thorough testing there, the production pipeline deploys it to stage and production.
- D. Wrong. The project switches mode through the file it contains. A support ticket is for a deployed configuration that does not reflect your custom configuration.
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References
[1] https://certification.adobe.com/certification/aem-devops-engineer-expert/159