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1. Explain the difference between Aem vs Sitecore?

Ans:

Features AEM Sitecore CMS

Cost-Effective High High

Complexity High High

Features Available Available

Integration Easy to access Easy to access

CMS Support Multiple User Access Supported Multiple User Access Supp

Security High High

Customization Moderate customizations Highly customizable

Single platform support Yes No

User Experience Good Good

2. Difference between Design Dialog and Edit Dialog?

Ans:

 Both dialog and design dialog defines the UI interface for allowing the user to
configure the component.
 Design Dialog of a component can be seen/edited in the design mode of the
page. Design dialog is at template level so all the pages of the template will
share the same design dialog and it is stored under /etc/designs folder.
 Whereas Dialog of a component is at page level so each component instance
will have its own dialog and information entered in the dialog will be stored
under /content folder.

3. What is the purpose of clientlibs?

Ans: It is used for adding site-specific js and CSS files to the page and also third-
party js and CSS files.
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4. What are Dependency/Dependencies in the client library?

Ans: It is a list of other client library categories on which this library folder depends.
For example, given two cq: ClientLibraryFolder nodes F and G, if a file in F requires
another file in G to function properly, then at least one of the categories of G should
be among the dependencies of F.

5. What is the embed and difference between dependency and

embed in the client library?

Ans:

Embed: Used to embed code from other libraries. If node F embeds nodes G and H,
the resulting HTML will be a concentration of content from nodes G and H.

Dependency: Please refer to the above answer.

6. Difference between package and bundle?

Ans:

Package: A Package is a zip file that contains the content in the form of a file-
system serialization (called “vault” serialization) that displays the content from the
repository as an easy-to-use-and-edit representation of files and folders. Packages
can include content and project-related data.

Bundle: A bundle is a tightly coupled, dynamically loadable collection of classes,

jars, and configuration files that explicitly declare their external dependencies (if
any).

7. Can you explain the life cycle of the OSGi bundle?

Ans: Following are the life cycle states of OSGI:

Installed: The bundle has been successfully installed.

Resolved: All Java classes that the bundle needs are available. This state indicates
that the bundle is either ready to be started or has stopped.

Starting: The bundle is being started, the BundleActivator.start method will be

called, and this method has not yet been returned. When the bundle has an
activation policy, the bundle will remain in the STARTING state until the bundle is
activated according to its activation policy.

Active: The bundle has been successfully activated and is running; its Bundle
Activator start method has been called and returned.

Stopping: The bundle is being stopped. The BundleActivator.stop method has been

called but the stop method has not yet returned.

Uninstalled: The bundle has been uninstalled. It cannot move into another state.

8. What is the difference between parsys and iparsys?

Ans:

parsys: It is called the “Paragraph System” component in which you can add other
components at the page level.

iparsys: It is an inherited paragraph system, which inherits the parent page

“paragraph system”.

9. What is the process step in the workflow?

Ans: It is a workflow component that can be found at this is used for calling a java
class in the workflow.

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10. Difference between CQ5.4 and CQ5.5?

Ans: Versions of CQ before 5.5 were based on a servlet container (CQSE, by default,

though others could be used) running with multiple web apps: One for the CRX
content repository and one for the OSGi container which itself contained Sling and
AEM. The Sling web app was bound to the root and handled most of the request
processing.

 With CQ 5.5 and AEM, the OSGi container is positioned at the root, and the
OSGi HTTP service, backed by Sling acting as the sole request handling
endpoint.
  The CRX content repository is now just another OSGi service, alongside the
various services that comprise the rest of the AEM functionality. These
changes do not affect applications built on top of AEM or Sling.
 The new architecture means that the quickstart jar installation of AEM can no
longer support other web applications running alongside AEM.
 However, the war version of AEM is designed to be deployed in an application
server, where additional web applications can be deployed alongside it.
 Added three new connectors to key Adobe products – Creative Suite, Scene7,
Search&Promote
 The authors can directly work on mobile apps.
 Partnered with hybrids software to add some nice eCommerce capabilities.
 Added Undo(Ctrl+z) and Redo(Ctrl+y) functionalities.

11. Role of Dispatcher in CQ5?

Ans: The dispatcher is a CQ5 caching and/or load balancing tool. The dispatcher
also helps to protect your AEM server from attack. It caches responses from
publishing instances, to increase the responsiveness and security of your externally
facing published website

12. What is Replication? and What are the steps involved in

Replication?

Ans: Replication is the process of activating/publishing the page from Author

Instance to Process Instance.

Steps involved in replication:

 The author requests that certain content be published (activated); this can be
initiated by a manual request, or by automatic triggers that have been
preconfigured.
 The request is passed to the appropriate default replication agent; an
environment can have several default agents that will always be selected for
such actions.
 The replication agent “packages” the content and places it in the replication
queue.
 The content is lifted from the queue and transported to the publish
environment using the configured protocol; usually, this is HTTP.
 A servlet in the publish environment receives the request and publishes the
received content; the default servlet is https://localhost:4503/bin/receive.

13. What is the difference between par base and parsys?

Ans:
Par base:

 The par base allows components to inherit attributes from other

components, similar to subclasses in object-oriented languages such as Java,
C++, and so on.
 For example, when you open the /libs/foundation/components/text node in
the CRX Explorer, you see that it has a property named
sling:resourceSuperType, which references the par base component.
 The par base here defines tree scripts to render images, titles, and so on so
that all components subclassed from this par base can use this script.

Phrases (Paragraph System):

 The paragraph system (parsys) is a compound component that allows

authors to add components of different types to a page and contains all
other paragraph components.
 Each paragraph type is represented as a component. The paragraph system
itself is also a component, which contains the other paragraph components.

14. Explain the Multi-Site Manager?

Ans: Multi-Site Manager (MSM) enables you to easily manage multiple websites that
share common content. MSM lets you define relations between the sites so that
content changes in one site are automatically replicated in other sites. For example,
websites are often provided in multiple languages for international audiences.

When the number of sites in the same language is low (three to five), a manual
process for synchronizing content across sites is possible. However, as soon as the
number of sites grows or when multiple languages are involved, it becomes more
efficient to automate the process.

15. How to customize page property dialog?

Ans:

Step 1: Copy /libs/foundation/components/page/dialog node to template

component’s node
Step 2: Modify dialog node 

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