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Name two key components that make up

Experience CMS, and marketing platform
Sitecore XP

Name some of the sites that you can refer

SDN, Knowledge Base, Marketplace, Sitecore
to for more information and module
Sitecore XP 8 Documents
downloads

What should you do before contacting

Refer to Help Desk best practices
support?

What are your responsibilities as a

Build according to recommended practices
developer?

Name three Sitecore interfaces Desktop, Content Editor, Experience Editor

Everything in Sitecore is an... Item

An item is not a... File

An item's URL is determined by... Its position in the Content tree

Name the process by which items are

synchronized between the master and web Publishing
database

Which Experience Editor mode would you

Designing mode
use to add a new component

Which Experience Editor mode would you

Editing mode
use to add an image or edit text?

Maps URL to an item in the content tree and d

When a request comes in, Sitecore...
assembles presentation

Name the three databases that are

master, web, and core
installed by default
Name some foundation features that Content versioning, multi-language support, d
Sitecore provides out of the box (adaptive design) support

What is the name of the digital marketing

management part of the Experience
xDB (or Experience Database)
Platform that collects and aggregates
contact information?

An item's type is determined by the

Data template
______ used to create it.

What is an item composed of? Field sections and fields

What do you need to specify when creating

Field name and type
a new field?

In the Content Editor, where can you find

out which data template an item is based Quick Info section on that item
on?

Some examples of field types are... Single-Line Text, Rich Text, Image, Date

In which scenario would you use data

template inheritance? When fields are repeated in multiple data temp

Why is it important to think of your data

template creation and inheritance structure Refactoring template inheritance may cause d
from the beginning?

By default, all data templates eventually

Standard Template
inherit from which Sitecore data template?

What happens if the same field section - The field sections will merge
name is used in multiple templates in a
data template's inheritance tree? - Fields will be listed under this single section

What happens if the same field name is - Fields do not merge

used in two separate inherited data - Both fields will appear
templates?
- Best to avoid reusing the same field names

- Always named __StandardValues

- Child item of owning data templates

Describe the standard values item
- Is a special instance of an item --contains all
fields

What type of settings can be applied to Default field values, default insert Options, def
standard values? presentation, default Workflow

What are the two types of default field

Dynamic (uses tokens) and Static.
values?

Tokens are replaced when an item is created.

How do tokens work? there are tokens for the name of the item or th
parent item.

Any three of the following:

Name three tokens:

$name, $date, $id, $parentid, $parentname, $
$date

A list of item types (data templates) that can b

What are the Insert Options?
under a specific item.

Where Insert Options should be On the data template's standard values which
configured? overridden at item level.

Why is it a good idea to configure Insert All items using that data template will have the
Options on standard values? Options.

What are presentation details? Configuration that determines what an item loo
 requested by the browser.

Normally, a URL points to an HTML file. In Site

Describe how Sitecore resolves a page in
request maps to an item and the page is dyna
comparison to a static HTML site.
assembled from smaller pieces.

What is the name of the main Sitecore .dll?

Sitecore.Kernel.dll

What happens if you do not set Copy

Some dll's in bin folder will be deleted and you
Local to False for you Sitecore.Kernel
get the full set from another installation to con
reference?

In a Sitecore context, what is the name

A Layout
given to an .aspx file?

How is a Layout definition item connected The Path field on the Layout definition item po
to a Layout file? location of the .aspx file.

How do you configure an item's Right-click->Tasks->Design Layout or CTRL+U

presentation details in Sitecore Rocks? also use Command

How many Layouts can you assign to a

One -- Per Device
single item?

Name three different types of Sitecore

Sub layout, XSLT rendering, web control
components

What type of file is a Sitecore Sub layout? .ascx

A component consists of a file on the file

A definition item in Sitecore
system and...

How does a component definition item By a Path field on the definition item
where to find the associated file?
 - New page types can be assembled from exis
components

- Changes to page structure do not require a

What are the benefits of dynamic binding?
- Supports content re-use (more in Module 5

- Supports Site
cores personalization and testing features

What is the Sitecore control that allows you

to dynamically bind components to a sc:Placeholder
page?

What is the Sitecore control to statically

sc:Sublayout
include Sub layouts on a page?

Describe the process by which a Open presentation details -> Add Rendering ->
component is bound to a placeholder? rendering -> Edit Placeholder Key property

Name the property that you must set on a

Key
placeholder to identify it.

If all items of a particular type require a

particular component, where should these On the standard values of the data template
presentation details be configured?

What type of components might be good

Page scaffolding, like headers and footers
candidates for static binding?
Name three specialized Sitecore field
,,
controls

How can Sitecore help you resize images

Set MaxWidth and/or MaxHeight onthe sc:Ima
dynamically?

Field
Name the one mandatory property that
must be specified on the Sitecore web
controls
(note: on , the equivalent is FieldName)

Sitecore.Data CRUD operations, item man

Sitecore Namespaces
Sitecore.Context Information about curren

Sitecore.Links Links management

Sitecore.DateUtil

Sitecore.IO.FileUtil

Useful in-built utilities Sitecore.StringUtil

Sitecore.UIUtil

Sitecore.MainUtil

In which .dll can you find the majority of the

Sitecore.Kernel
API?

When Sitecore makes a request, what is

the name of the static class that is Sitecore.Context
assembled?

Name four properties that you might get

Context user, language, database and item.
from Sitecore.Context:
When you are looking at a page in
Experience Editor mode, what is the Master
context database?

Name the method used to retrieve items? GetItem()

Items can be retrieved by path or By ID

What does the

Sitecore.Context.Item.Database property
Web
return in the context of a live website
visitor?

How should you compare two items in

Using their IDs
code?

What method do you use to retrieve an

LinkManager.GetItemUrl()
items URL?

Why should you not useGetDynamicUrl()

for your sites front end? Unreadable developer URL, uses IDs

What object can you pass into the

GetItemUrl() method to customize the way A UrlOptions object
your items URL is rendered?

Where can you customize how URLs are

In the LinkManager section of the web.config
rendered globally?

Sitecore security is an extension of... Standard .NET membership

All code is executed in the context of... The current user

What affects whether or not a piece of

That user's permissions
code will run?

What permissions does Permission to create or edit items

extranet\anonymous lack by default?

When creating or editing an item, the code

must be executed with the appropriate
UserSwitcher or SecurityDisabler
security rights. Name two ways that this
can be done.

How do you put an item into an editing

Creating an EditContext
state?

Why should you create / edit items in the

Web overwritten by publish.
master rather than the web database?

Why is it a bad idea to output a fields Not editable in Experience Editor and complex
value straight to the screen? contain custom XML

Which field types are suitable for editing

Simple text fields. For example, Single-Line Te
using the .Value property?

Transforms field content into valid HTML S

controls ultimately go through this method

Automatically makes fields editable in Experi

Why should you use
Allows you to pass in parameters that match
FieldRenderer.Render()?
available in Sitecore controls for example: im
width

Translates dynamic links in Rich Text Editor f

SEO-friendly URLs

Why is it a bad idea to output raw values to Not editable in Experience Editor, complex fiel
the screen? not make sense images, for example

Name the best suited field object for the

following field types: single-line text, tree Field, MultilistField, ReferenceField, LinkField
list, drop link, general link:
What method should you use to render the
FieldRenderer.Render() Experience Editor s
contents of text, date, Image and link fields
transforms custom XML, transforms Rich Text
to the screen (and why)?

Why are you unable to render a multilist

It contains IDs, not readable content
field to the page using .Render ()?

Setting a component Datasource allows

Output content from a content item elsewhere
that component to _____.

How can you force a Sitecore control to

output the content of an items Set DataSource or Item property
Datasource?

What do parameters allow you to do? Allow properties to be set per instance of a co

How are parameters encoded when sent

As a URL query string, that is:key1=value1&ke
to your component?

What utility converts parameter lists to a

WebUtil.ParseUrlParameters()
NameValueCollection?

Why would you set the Data source for a

When that Datasource should only be used on
component on the presentation details of
page
an item?

Why would you set the component and the When you want all items based on a particular
Datasource on the standard values have that component with that particular Datas
presentation details? default

Why would you set the component on the

When your component has to appear on every
standard values and override the
has a different Datasource for a particular pag
Datasource on the item?

When presentation coming from the standard

When does a layout delta get created?
items templates overridden on that item.

How does the XML of a layout delta differ Layout deltas only contain differences betwee
 standard value presentation and any changes
author on the item.
from the XML specified on a templates
standard values?
The standard value XML contains all presenta

What can you do with methods that could

Abstract code to a generic utilities project
be used across multiple Sitecore projects?

Why cant you preview items under

They do not have presentation details
Global?

Why is the Settings item outside any

Values shared across all sites
individual site folder structure?

What kind of content can you display using Promotions, announcements anything that co
a General Widget? used across the site

Name 2 devices you may want to target

Tablets and mobiles
with different presentation details:

When will Sitecore use the language

If there is no explicit language in the URL nor
attribute of the site definition in the
cookie.
web.config?

How do visitors to your site change the You have to build language switching for the fr
sites language? yourself using a query string, for example

What kind of error checking should you do when Check that each item has a version in
rendering items to the screen? language

What are some important considerations with a Large codebase, sites affect each oth
multi-site implementation? performance - see Multi-site slide for

Which shared field is used to store presentation __Renderings field

information for all versions of an item?

What does the presence of the __Final Renderings To define individual presentation deta
field allows an author to do? version of an item

Which item versions can have individual

Numbered and language versions of
presentations defined on them

In Content Editor or Experience Edito

How do you access the Layout Details window for
Details command. In Sitecore Rocks
each item?
->Design Layout

The Shared Layout tab is for defining

What is the difference between the Shared Layout
details for all versions of an item while
tabs versus the Final Layout tab of the Layout
Layout tab focuses on the presentatio
Details window?
that specific version of the item.

What will .return? The context item.

Name two axes available in Sitecore query: ancestor-or-self::, parent::

Expensive particularly if you are iter

Why shouldnt you query the entire content tree?
all descendants

Unless you are doing a very simple query on a very

limited area of your Sitecore tree, what should you Sitecore search
use instead?

How does Sitecore support each of

Data definition: data templates. Content: items.Presen
the CMS pillars:Data definition,
layouts and components
Content, and Presentation?
Describe some xWeb Content
Management System features that AIDA: Analytics, Insights, Decisions, Automation.(Also
separate Sitecore from other tracking, testing, reporting, personalization)
systems

What is Site cores easy-to-use

authoring tool and what
functionality does it provide? The Experience Editor provides editing and designing
(Also accept: marketing)

Which interface would an author

use to see and edit items in a tree Content Editor
structure?

What should you define in a

Fields, Field sections, Icon and parent templates
template?

What field type would you use to

Rich Text Field
store formatted HTML?

What happens if you use the same

You will get two fields with the same name, whichlead
field name in a template that is
confusion both to users and developers. It should be a
already used in a parent template?

What is the name of the template

Standard Template
all templates should inherit from?

Why should you avoid defining the

same field multiple times in more It makes it much harder to manage later on.
than one template?

What would you use the Field Image: Set the folder in the Media Library it will open w
source for in the following field selecting an image for the field.
types: Image, Rich Text Field, Drop
link? Rich Text: Configuration of the toolbar and functionalit
 Text Editor.

Drop link: Set the items to be displayed as options.

Why do you create Standard

To be able to define default and initial values
values? As options.

What happens if you don't set any Only admins and privileged users will be able to creat
insert options? (using the Insert from template option).

Where should you set insert In the Standard Values, so they are applied as a defau
options as a best practice? created items.

A shared field contains a single version of the data for

What happens when you set a field
in all languages. An unversioned field contains one ve
as shared? And unversioned?
data per language.

When do tokens get replaced? Only when items are created.

Why would you need to run a full

Theoretically, you should not need to do this as a user
republish?

If you set up some publishing

restrictions, will Sitecore No. The publishing restrictions only dictates when an
automatically publish that content versions are publishable or not.
at that exact time?

In terms of schema, there is no difference. The differe

What is the difference between the conceptual, in that, content for the live website is read
Master and Web database? Web database and content that is work-in-progress sh
edited in the Master database.

Should a user work directly in the A user should never work directly in the Web database
Web database if they need they should not even be able to access the Web datab
something to go live immediately? authoring tools.

Why would I want to use the data The data source allows you to build more flexible and
source in a component? components because the data source is determined b
 not hardcoded by developers.

Not directly. However, you can have components insid

Can we have placeholders inside
placeholder that in turn define other placeholders. Thi
of placeholders?
to as nested placeholders.

One of the benefits of using Sitecore is the separation

Why is it a good idea to avoid
and presentation. The Rich text field is the only excep
using Rich Text fields as much as
as it stores HTML content directly. If abused and not c
possible?
properly, it may give users the ability to break the desi

What do you need to do to allow

users to add and remove
Create a Placeholder Settings item for that placeholde
components from a placeholder
using the Experience Editor?

Happens when you request a page

that has no layout defined in the Sitecore shows a Layout not found error page.
presentation details?

Why do you define Presentation

Details on Standard Values if the You want to define those Presentation Details as a de
Standard Values item is never items based on that template. This will allow items to h
going to be mapped to the presentation details already set when they are created
requested URL?

Can you edit an item in the

Experience Editor when the item No, since it cannot be presented.
has no presentation details set?

Which fields are editable inline Text fields (Single-Line, Multi-Line, Rich Text), Date/da
using the Experience Editor? Image, General Link.

Give an example of when you

would use the DisableWebEdit Rendering a field inside the tag in the of the HTML.
parameter when rendering a field.

How does Sitecore define a type of Using data templates

item (data schema)?

What is the name of the feature

that makes WCM possible in Experience Management ( xManagement)
Sitecore?

What do you need in addition to

the Experience Management to You need the Experience Database to take full advant
take full advantage of the Sitecore available features. It supports the Analytics and Marke
Experience Platform?

Are all items pages in a Sitecore

No, items that are pages have their presentation detai
project?

What is the recommended version

Any version that supports the .NET framework 4.0 will
of Visual Studio for Sitecore
Sitecore development.
development?

What tools can you use to install

Manual or zip file, EXE, Sitecore Rocks, SIM
Sitecore?

What additional databases are

Collection Database (MongoDB), Reporting, Session
required when running xDB?

How do you patch in changes to

the "sitecore" section of Put a .config patch file in the App_Config/Include folde
web.config?

You have just created new content

but you cannot see it on your live You need to publish new or edited content.
website. Why not?

When you set up multiple site

structures in the content tree, what
is the recommended practice for Keep it outside of any site structure.
handling content that will be shared
between sites?
What types of Visual Studio
ASP.NET Web Application, supporting MVC or Web F
projects does Sitecore support?

How can you make your Visual

By working outside the webroot
Studio project portable?

Publishing copies items from the Master to Web datab

What is the difference between
deploying copies files from your Visual Studio project
publishing and deploying?
webroot.

Name some the attributes that can

be configured in the site node for a
Name, host name, rootPath, startItem, language
website. (think SiteDefinition.config
file).

What are some of the features of Integration with Visual Studio. Creating and editing ite
Sitecore Rocks? management tools, viewing website file system

To provide a rich user experience,

what are some recommended Provide default values, use user friendly names and ic
practices you should use when you use of Rich Text Editors.
create templates?

Where are default field values

On the Template Standard Values item
defined?

Why is storing media in the It makes publishing easier because the item and the m
Sitecore database an advantage? both published so you do not have to keep files in syn

What item setting needs to be

specified for authors to be able to Insert options
add content?

What is the recommended practice

Insert options are set on the Template Standard Value
for setting insert options?

Describe the anatomy of a Sitecore

A code file on the file system and definition item in the
Layout?
How is the layout file linked to the
By the Path field on the definition item.
definition item?

How do you display the contents of

@Html.Sitecore().Field(<Field name>")
a field in code?

What can you use to translate

fields and Help texts in the Sitecore Sitecore Dictionary entries
Client?

Which type of component would

you create if you wanted to closely
Controller Rendering
follow MVC patterns or invoke
complex logic?

True or False: The view should

False
contain all the business logic.

What happens if allowed controls

In the Experience Editor, the user will be able to add a
are not specified on a placeholder
component to the placeholder.
settings item?

How do you make Sitecore

Create a component definition item and set the contro
recognize of a controller
controller action. Additionally, you can also set an Area
rendering?

You want to ensure header and

footer are always visible on your Statically bind it when you need it to always appear on
Main layout. Will you statically or rendering.
dynamically bind it?

What is the difference between the The Rendering field is shared between all item version
Renderings and Final Renderings used for global changes; The Final Renderings field is
fields? and stores language and version-specific changes.

An author adds a component to a The component's Datasource Location field is filled in

page in the Experience Editor and
the selects the Associated Content
dialog box automatically appears.
What triggers this behavior?

How can you restrict authors to

Add the data template to the component's Datasource
specific types of item for a
field.
component's data source?

How are component parameters

As clear text in URL query string format
stored in the Sitecore database?

What data template must be used

as a base template for your The Standard Rendering Parameters template
Parameters Template?

You have created a new

On the components definition item in the Parameters
Parameters Template. How do you
field
ensure your component to uses it?

What are Compatible Renderings? Components that can be exchanged or replaced with

They should be set on both components so you can e

What should you keep in mind
them. Both need to be in the Allowed Controls for any
when configuring Compatible
they will appear in. They may need to share data sour
Renderings?
parameters.

You have a component you would

like cached anywhere it is used.
On the component definition item in the Sitecore tree.
Where would you define its cache
settings?

Why should you never cache a

component that displays personal Another visitor to your site can see that information
information?

You have a component that you

want cached on every Event On the component on the Event Details Template Stan
Details page. Where would you item.
define its cache settings?
Why would you want to have the
languageEmbedding option set to The site is not multilingual.
never?

How would an author cause a The URL is usually made using the item names. If the
broken link when renaming an bookmarked in the browser, it will no longer work. You
item? implement 301 redirect logic.

How would you disable .aspx being

added to all URLs that are By changing the addAspxExtension attribute of the Lin
generated from Sitecore?

How can you globally change

characters in the URLs that are
Using the encodeNameReplacements option in the w
generated from and resolved from
Sitecore?

In which situations would you want

If you need to force the language of content that is to
to change the Links that are
from Sitecore.
generated for an individual link?

Why is it important to have friendly

folder structures within your Because they dictate the segments that are within you
content tree?

By retrieving the Home item using the

How would you display the direct
Sitecore.Context.Site.StartPath.By invoking the GetCh
children of the Home item?
method.

What is the danger of using a It retrieves recursively all the children of all the childre
method like If invoked in an item near the root, it would load the en
Axes.GetDescendants()? memory, with the corresponding performance penalty.

How can you skip certain items

Use LINQ to filter by template or the value of a particu
when you build the navigation?

How would you render the content

@Html.Sitecore().Field().FieldRenderer.Render()
of an Image field on the website?
What happens if you use one of
those methods to render a Multilist It would render the raw value of the field: pipe-delimite
field?

How would you render a Multilist

By retrieving its value in code and using it to create so
field?

What class would you use to

retrieve the contents of a Tree list Sitecore.Data.Fields.MultilistField
field?

How do you get the children items

.Children.GetChildren()
of an item?

In what order do children item

Alphabetically
appear by default?

Why would you preferably avoid

sorting items in code, for example,
using LINQ?
It might confuse authors to see items appear in a diffe
the order shown in the Content Editor.

What is the name of the pop-up

window in the Experience Editor
A Field Editor
that can be used to edit fields that
are not editable inline?

How would you enable the use of a

By adding a Field Editor Button to a toolbar
Field Editor?

How would you show a toolbar in a

Using an Edit Frame
random part of the page?

How would configure the buttons By creating some definition items in the Core databas
shown in an Edit Frame? the Buttons property to the Field Editor
What is the biggest challenge
Having multiple controllers invoked in the same page
when you post forms with Sitecore
one of them should handle the post.
MVC?

How do you bind a controller to

By filling the Form Controller Name and Form Control
deal with the post of a View
fields in the definition item of the View Rendering
Rendering?

What method do you need to

invoke inside a View Rendering
form to ensure only its controller Html.Sitecore().FormHandler()
reacts to the post?

Why should you not crate or modify

If the changes only exist on the web database they wi
items directly on the web
during the next publish operation.
database?

Name

What three pieces of information

Template
do you require to create an item?

Location (parent node)

UserSwitcher
How can you run part of your code
with a set of privileges different
from those of the context user? SecurityDisabler

Why does Sitecore not allow the

Item names are used to form the URLs. Some charac
use of certain characters in an item
special meaning in a URL.
name?

What methods do you invoke when .Editing.BeginEdit().Editing.EndEdit()

you begin and finish editing an item
through the API?

What two core services conform ItemService

the Sitecore Services Client?

EntityService

A profile card is used to profile content. It acts as a pre

keys and values.

What is the difference between a

profile card and a pattern card? Used during personalization or contact segmentation,
define archetypes to compare with the current profile o
and establish which one corresponds most closely wit
interests of the visitor.

How can authors change a

They can change its data source, hide it, or exchange
component through
component.
personalization?

What do you need to do to support

Componentize the page, and use data sources whene
the use of personalization?

- Build and scale according to recomm

practices
What are your roles as a sitecore developer? - Support Sitecore marketing and ana
features
- Build for the experience editor

- Knowledgebase (support articles)

Where can you find more information? - Marketplace (modules)
- Developer network (forum, downloa
Before contacting support you should... - Refer to help desk best practices

- Experience CMS
Name 2 key components of Sitecore XP
-Marketing Platform

- Desktop
Name 3 Sitecore interfaces - Content Editor
- Experience Editor

Everything in sitecore is an... Item

An item is not a ... File

An items URL is determined by... Its position in the Content Tree

Name the process by which items are synchronized

Publishing
between the master and the web DB

Which Experience Editor mode would you use to

Designing Mode
add a new component?

Which Experience Editor mode would you use to

Editing mode
ass an image or edit text

Maps URL to an item in the content tr

When a request comes in Sitecore...
dynamically assembles presentation.

- Master
Name three databases that are installed by default - Web
- core

- Content versioning
Name some foundation features that Sitecore
provides out of the box - multi-language support
- Devices (adaptive design) support

What is the name of the digital marketing - xDB (or Experience Database)
management part of the experience Platform that
collects and aggregates contact information

An item's type is determined by the _________

Data Template
used to create it.

What is an item composed of? Field sections and fields

- Field name
What do you need to specify when creating a new
field?
- Type

In the Content Editor where can you find out which

Quick Info section on that item
data template an item is based on?

- Single-Line
- Rich Text
Some examples of field types are...
- Image
- Date

In which scenario would you use data template When fields are repeated in multiple d
inheritance? templates.

Why is it important to think of your data template

Refactoring template inheritance may
creation and inheritance structure from the
loss.
beginning?

By default, all data templates eventually inherit from

Standard Template
which Sitecore data template?

What happens if the same field section name is

- The field section will merge
used in multiple templates in a data template's
- Field will be listed under this single s
inheritance tree?

- Fields do not merge

What happens if the same field name is used in two
- Both fields will appear
separate inherited data templates?
- Best to avoid reusing the same field
 - Always named __StandardValues

- Child item of owning data template

Describe the standard values item
- Is a special instance of an item - con
inherited fields

- Default field values

What type of settings can be applied to standard - Default Insert Options
values? - Default presentation
- Default Workflow

-Dynamic (uses tokens)

What are the two types of default field values?
-Static

Tokens are replaced when an item is

How do tokens work? e.x. there are tokens for the name of
the ID of the parent item.

- $name
- $date
- $id
Name three tokens: - $parentid
- $parentname
- $time
- $now

A list of item types (data templates) th

What are Insert Options?
created under specific item

On the data template's standard value

Where should Insert Options be configured?
be overridden at the item level.

Why is it a good idea to configure Insert Options on All items using that data template will
standard values? same Insert Options

Configuration that determines what a

What are presentation details?
like when requested by the browser
 Normally, a URL points to an HTML fi
Describe how Sitecore resolves a page in
Sitecore, a request maps to an item a
comparison to a static HTML site.
dynamically assembled from smaller

What is the name of the main Sitecore .dll? Sitecore.Kernel.dll

Some dll's in bin folder will be delete

What happens if you do not set Copy Local to false
need to get the full set from another in
for your Sitecore.Kernel reference?
continue working.

In a Sitecore context, what is the name given to

A Layout
an .aspx file?

How is a Layout definition item connected to a The Path field on the Layout definition
Layout file? to the location of the .aspx file

How do you configure an item's presentation details Right-click->Tasks->Design Layout or

in Sitecore Rocks? You can also use Commandy

How many Layouts can you assign to single item? One- per device

- Sublayouts

Name three different types of Sitecore components. - XSLT rendering

- Wen control

What type of file is a Sitecore Sublayout? .ascx

A component consists of a file on the system and... A definition item in Sitecore

How does a component definition item know where

By a Path field on the definition item
to find the associated file?

What is the Sitecore control that allows you to

sc:Placeholder
dynamically bind components to a page?

What is the Sitecore control to statically include Sub sc:Sublayout

layouts on a page?

Describe the process by which a component is Open presentation details->Add->Ren

bound to a placeholder >select rendering->Edit PlaceholderK

Name the property that you must set on a

Key
placeholder to identify it.

If all items of a particular type require a particular at

component, where should these presentation On the standard values of the data te
details be configured?

What type of components might be good

Page scaffolding, like headers and fo
candidates for static binding?

- <sc:Text \>

Name three specialized Sitecore field controls - <sc:Date \>

- <sc:Image />

How can Sitecore help you resize images Set MaxWidth and/or MaxHeight on t
dynamically? tag

Field
Name the one mandatory property that must be
specified on the Sitecore web controls
(note* on <sc:FieldRenderer />, the e
FieldName)

In which .dll can you find the majority of the API? Sitecore.Kernel

When Sitecore makes a request, what is the name

Sitecore.Context
of the static class that is assembled

Name four properties that you might get from -Context user
Sitecore.Context
- Language
 - Database

- Item

When you are looking at a page in Experience

Master
Editor mode, what is the context database?

Name the method used to retrieve items? GetItem()

Items can be retrieved by path or ... By ID

What does the sitecore.Context.Item.Database

property return in the context of a live website Web
visitor?

How should you compare two items in code? Using their IDs

What method do you use to retrieve an item's URL? LinkManager.GetItemUrl()

Why should you not use GetDynamicUrl() for your

Unreadable developer URL uses IDs
site's front end?

What object can you pass into the GetItemUrl()

method to customize the way your item's URL is A URLOptions object
rendered?

Where can you customize how URLs are rendered

In the LinkManager section of the we
globally?

Sitecore security is an extension of... Standard .NET membership

All code is executed in the context of ... The current user

What affects whether or not a piece of code will

The user's permissions
run?

What permissions does extranet\anonymous lack Permission to creatte or edit items

by default?

When create in or editing an item, the code must be

executed with the appropriate security rights. Name UserSwitcher or SecurityDisbler
two ways that this can be done.

How do you put an item into an editing state? Creating an EditContext;

Why should you create / edit items in the master

Web overwritten by publish
rather that the web database?

Why is it a bad idea to output a field's value straight Not editable in Experience Editor and
to the screen? fields contain custom XML

Which field types are suitable for editing using

Simple text fields. For example, Singl
the .Value property?

Why is it a bad idea to output raw values to the Not editable in Experience Editor, com
screen? types will not make sense images, fo

Name the best suited field object for the following

field types: single-line text, treelist, droplink, general Field, MultilistField, ReferenceField, L
link:

Q What method should you use to render the FieldRenderer.Render() Experience

contents of text, date, image and link fields to the support, transforms custom XML, tran
screen (and why)? Text links

Why are you unable to render a multilist field to the

It contains IDs, not readable content
page using .Render ()?

Setting a component Datasource allows that Output content from a content item el
component to _____. the tree

How can you force a Sitecore control to output the

Set DataSourceor Itemproperty
content of an items Datasource?

What do parameters allow you to do? Allow parameters to be set per instan
 component

How are parameters encoded when sent your As a URL query string, that is
component? key=val1&key2=val2

What utility converts parameter lists to a

WebUtil.ParseUrlParameters()
NameValueCollection?

Why would you set the Datasource for a When the Datasource should only be
component on the presentation details of an item? particular page

Why would you set the component and the When you want all items based on a
Datasource on the standard values presentation template to have that component with
details? particular Datasource as default

When your component has to appear

Why would you set the component on the standard
page but has a different Datasource f
values and override the Datasource on the item?
page

When presentation coming from the s

When does a layout delta get created? values of an items template is overrid
item.

Layout deltas only contain differences

items standard value presentation an
How does the XML of a layout delta differ from the changes made by the author on the it
XML specified on a templates standard values?
The standard value XML contains all
details.

What can you do with methods that could be used

Abstract code to a generic utilities pro
across multiple Sitecore projects?

What can't you preview items under Global They do not have presentation details

Why is the Settings item outside any individual site

Values shared across all sites
folder structure?
What kind of content can you display using a Promotions, announcements anythin
General Widget? be re-used across the site

Name 2 devices you may want to target with

Tablets and mobiles
different presentation details:

When will Sitecore use the language attribute of the If there is no explicit language in the U
site definition in the web.config? language cookie.

How do visitors to your site change the sites You have to build language switching
language? end yourself using a query string, fo

What kind of error checking should you do when Check that each item has a version in
rendering items to the screen? language

What are some important considerations with a Large codebase, sites affect each oth
multi-site implementation? performance -see Multi-site slide for m

Which shared field is used to store presentation

__Renderings field
information for all versions of an item?

What does the presence of the __Final Renderings To define individual presentation deta
field allows an author to do? version of an item

Which item versions can have

individual presentations defined on Numbered and language versions of an item
them

How do you access the Layout In Content Editor or Experience Editor click the Det
Details window for each item? command. In Sitecore Rocks choose Tasks -> Desi

What is the difference between the The Shared Layout tab is for defining presentation d
Shared Layout tabs versus the Final versions of an item while the Final Layout tab focus
Layout tab of the Layout Details presentation detail of that specific version of the item
window?

What will Return? The context item.

- ancestor-or-self::
Name two axes available in
Sitecorequery:
- parent::

Why shouldnt you query the entire

content tree?
Expensive particularly if you are iterating through a
descendants

Unless you are doing a very simple

query on a very limited area of your
Sitecore Search
Sitecore tree, what should you use
instead?

What does the Datasource Location

Opens the Select the Associated Content dialog wh
field automatically do in the
add a new component
Experience Editor?

What happens if the Datasource

The "Select the Associated Content" dialog opens a
Location and the Datasource
can create a new content item using the template s
Template fields are both filled in?

What happens if the Datasource

The dialog doesnt open automatically, but when the
Location field is empty, but the
requests it, they see the whole tree with irrelevant it
Datasource Template field is not?

Reduces error

What is the benefit of rendering

Authors do not have to specify the parameter name
Parameters Templates to authors?

Authors can choose values from dropdowns.

Which data template is used as a
base template for your Parameters Standard Rendering Parameters template
Template?

If you want your component to use

On the components definition item in the Paramete
this new Parameters Template, where
Template field
do you assign it?

When you add <sc:Placeholder

Key="myKey" /> to your sublayout,
what must you do for the placeholder Create a Placeholder Settings definition item in Si
to be selectable in the Experience
Editor?

What else do these Placeholder

Settings items allow you to specify for Which components authors can insert into a placeh
authors?

They determine which components can be added to

What are Allowed Controls
placeholder

Which Experience Editor mode

supports adding components into
Designing
placeholders?

If a component is not in the Allowed

Controls list, can it be added into that
No
placeholder through the Experience
Editor?

What are Compatible Renderings Components that can be used in place of another c

What two elements should you keep

Both components need to be able to accept the sam
in mind when setting up Compatible
Datasource and the same Parameters
Renderings?

If a component is not in the Allowed No

Controls list, can it still be used as a
Compatible Rendering?

Once Custom Experience buttons are

On a component / field and displayed in the Experie
assigned, where do they show up?

Name two examples of custom

FieldEditor and WebEdit buttons
buttons:

-component definition item or

On what type of definition item can
you assign Custom Experience
buttons?
-a field definition item

Surround an area on a page or component and disp

What do Edit Frames do? allowing you to edit fields that would not be normall
the Experience Editor

In which database do you create the

Custom Experience buttons and Edit Core
Frames?

You do not need a hierarchical item structure and/o

Use a bucket when ...
large number of items

In order to store an item in a bucket, Make that item or the data templates standard value
you must on bucket able

After making changes to the bucket

ability of the items in a bucket, you Sync the bucket
must

Progressively apply filters (based on fields) to narro

What do facets allow you to do?
result set

Select the item you want to turn into a bucket and c

How do you create a bucket?
Bucket command on the Configure tab
What defines how Sitecore items
Index configuration files in /App_Config/Include
should be indexed?

Search is built using a provider

You can plug in whatever search provider you want
model. What does this mean?

What syntax do you use to query an

LINQ
index?

What is the name of Sitecores default

SearchResultItem
search result class?

When building your own search result

class, how do you account for fields Decorate with [IndexField("Page Heading")]
with spaces?

What method should you use to

GetResults();
return a rich results object?

You can configure how fields get

Name
indexed by type or

You can include/exclude by individual

ItemTemplates
field names or

Which attribute must be set to YES

in order for values to be stored in the storage Type
index?

Which two search providers does

Lucene and Solr
Sitecore ship with?

If you wanted to store the number of

comments a news article has, what
A computed field
type of field might you use to perform
the calculation?

Why should you tune your index Large, unwieldy index as your solution grows
configuration and not index
everything by default?

- Item
What are the three layers that the
- Data
item cache mechanism have?
- Prefetch

What operation clears the HTML

Publishing
cache?

Which cache is populated when the

Prefetch cache
application starts?

What is the path for .aspx page that

/Sitecore/admin/cache.aspx
clears all cache?

Cache settings are defined in what

web.config
file?

- Definition item
Name three places where component
HTML caching options can be - Standard Values
defined
- per|instance of the component

What mode in Experience Editor

shows profile, cache settings and
Debug mode
HTML output for individual
components?

- Incremental
Name the 3 publishing modes - Smart
- Republish

Publishing restrictions can be applied

Numbered versions of items , the item itself and tar
to _____ , _____ and _____

List some benefits of using Sitecore Checks prerequisites, correct DLLs, logs, remove a
Installer

installation

- CM with core, master and web

What are the recommended servers
- CD with core and web
for an installation and which
databases are on each server for a
- Separate DB server
production environment?
-xDB with separate collection, reporting and aggreg

Name some features of Sitecore

Packages, customize, extend, reinstall & remove in
Instance Manager

Name two development models Inside and outside the web root

Which is the best practice? Development outside the web root

What are the options to source You can serialize your items for source control with
control your items? Rocks or use a product like TDS to do it.

What is the recommended way of Patch web.config with include files, located under
patching in changes to web.config? /App_Config/Include

What are Sitecore packages and

Zip files that contain items and code files
what do they contain?

What is the name of the .aspx that

/sitecore/admin/updateinstallationwizard.aspx
you go to when upgrading Sitecore?

Which application (in sitecore start

menu) is used to view the resolved Access Viewer
access rights

You can assign access rights to Users and roles

_____ and _____

Can access be explicitly given to a

Yes
user to override the role access right?

Name three permissions that are

Allow, deny and not specified = deny
applied to access rights

What are workflows used for? Content approval, versioning and tracking

Items go through a series of ______ States

Each state can contain certain

Commands and Actions
______ and ______

When is an item publishable? In the Final State

When is a new numbered version When an items version is in a final workflow state a
created? subsequently is edited by a non-Administrator.

What tool will show you all contacts

Experience Profile
that have been to your site?

- Data is collected in a MongoDB collection databas

How does Sitecore store visitor data?
- That information is aggregated and stored in a SQ
database optimized for reporting

Engagement is measured using ... Goals

Goals can be assigned to specific

They can be triggered programmatically
items and/or ...

Establish which content or components makes your

What s the purpose of testing?
more favorably

As part of workflowwhenever they have made a ch

When can authors start a test?
page
What can be tested? Content, components or entire pages

- Add 'Launch Create Test Dialog' to workflow

- Make sure the Experience Editor works and is con

What to do to make sure your author correctly
can use the testing functionality?

-Ensure components that should be tested are conf

accept data sources

Assigning points in certain categories based on the

What does it mean to profile content?
that a content item is aimed at

How does componentization and use As a visitor navigates around the site, components
of data sources support / hidden or their data changed to match a particular
personalization? or profile key score

Best Practice: Why use Project If there are many data templates, it is best to group
Folders? subfolders for organization

Although you can use a data template multiple time

Best Practice: Avoid Circular
inheritance chain, you should avoid creating a circu
Inheritance
inheritance (A > B > A).

Right-click the item and click Navigate->Template H

Tip: View Template Hierarchy by
icons allow you to see inherited and inheriting data

Sub layouts routinely have 1 or more placeholders w

nested sub layouts to be added.

Best Practice: Nesting Sub layouts An example, a two-column sub layout will have 2 pl
divs with styling.

Then add other sublayouts into each of those colum

 item.Name the items name

item.ID the GUID (Globally Unique ID)

Helpful Code: What are some
commonly Used Item Properties item.ParentID the GUID of the items parent

item.Children a Collection of type ChildList of the f

descendants

Try: item.Editing.BeginEdit() and item.Editing.EndE

Best Practices: Edit Field Values in Catch: Editing.CancelEdit() should go in the catch
a Try/Catch Block:
Also, without the EndEdit, the new field values are n
the database.