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Adobe AD0-E116 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Adobe |
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| Exam Name: | Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert |
| Exam Number: | AD0-E116 |
| Related Certifications: | Adobe Experience Manager Business Practitioner Expert (AD0-E121) Adobe Experience Manager Developer Professional (AD0-E123) |
| Exam Duration: | 100 minutes |
| Exam Format: | Scenario-based Questions, Drag and Drop, Multiple Choice |
| Exam Price: | Exam fee varies by region (generally ~USD 225) |
| Real Exam Qty: | Approximately 90–95 |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years (renewal available via Adobe Certification renewal process) |
| Passing Score: | Not publicly disclosed (typically around 60–70%) |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Sample Questions: | DOWNLOAD DEMO |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored exam (remote or at a test center) with scenario-based and multiple-choice questions that assess expert-level AEM developer skills. |
| Pre Condition: | Strong hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager Sites development is recommended; familiarity with AEM architecture, components, templates, and configurations is expected. Adobe does not formally mandate a prerequisite certification but professional experience is crucial. |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/certification/program/technical-certifications/aem/aem-overview |
Adobe AD0-E116 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Objectives |
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| Topic 1: Component and Template Development | - Building and customizing components
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| Topic 2: AEM Architecture and Development | - Core AEM structures
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| Topic 3: Configuration, Deployment, and Build | - Project setup and deployment
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| Topic 4: Content and Resource Management | - Managing content
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| Topic 5: Environment Maintenance and Troubleshooting | - Diagnostic and maintenance tasks
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Your Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert Questions, Answered
The official Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert outline divides the exam into 5 major domains. The three that carry the most weight are Content and Resource Management, Configuration, Deployment, and Build, and Component and Template Development. You can see the full breakdown in the topics section above, and the 95 practice questions at VCE4Plus cover every listed domain.
The Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert exam presents Approximately 90–95 and allows 100 minutes. That pacing works out to a bit more than a minute per question, so timed practice matters — the VCE4Plus Desktop and Online Test Engines both let you rehearse under exam-style time limits before the real thing.
Adobe recommends the following training and study resources for the Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert exam:
Official courses are a solid foundation, and many candidates pair them with the 95 practice questions from VCE4Plus to test whether the material actually sticks under exam-style conditions.
The AD0-E116 exam is a Adobe certification exam that validates the knowledge outlined in the official Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert syllabus shown above. It is associated with the following credential paths: Adobe Experience Manager Developer Professional (AD0-E123), Adobe Experience Manager Business Practitioner Expert (AD0-E121). Employers in 2026 continue to treat Adobe credentials as reliable proof of skill, which is why the exam attracts candidates at many career stages. VCE4Plus supports your preparation with 95 practice questions in PDF, Desktop Test Engine, and Online Test Engine formats.
Strong hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager Sites development is recommended; familiarity with AEM architecture, components, templates, and configurations is expected. Adobe does not formally mandate a prerequisite certification but professional experience is crucial. For the most current eligibility details, always confirm on the official Adobe exam page before you schedule.
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The passing score for the Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert exam is Not publicly disclosed (typically around 60–70%), and the registration fee is Exam fee varies by region (generally ~USD 225). Since a retake means paying the fee again, it makes financial sense to walk in prepared — a self-test with the VCE4Plus practice engines shows you roughly where you stand before you spend that money.
Every purchase includes the full set of 95 practice questions for the Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert exam in all three formats — a printable PDF prepared by experts, a Desktop Test Engine for Windows with two practice modes that simulates the real exam environment offline, and an Online Test Engine that runs in any browser on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS with test history and performance review. You can install the products on unlimited computers, try a free demo first, and receive free updates for 365 days. When your update year ends, renewal comes at 50% off.
Online proctored exam (remote or at a test center) with scenario-based and multiple-choice questions that assess expert-level AEM developer skills. Registration for the Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert exam is handled through these official channels:
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Adobe Experience Manager Developer Expert Sample Questions:
A banking AEM application contains functionality to calculate a mortgage rate based on user input. A servlet in place calculates the result in the backend. A call to an internal third-party REST service is required to retrieve the average object value based on a given zip code.
The following three service interfaces are used:
MortgageCalculationServlet, MortgageCalculationService and ObjectValueLookupRestService where MortgageCalculationServlet has a dependency to MortgageCalculationService and MortgageCalculationService has a dependency to ObjectValueLookupRestService.
The calculation has many combinations of input parameters and edge cases, so the JUnit coverage must be as high as possible.
Which two strategies should the developer use to ensure testability of the application code? (Choose two)
- A. Use static methods to avoid boilerplate in application code
- B. Deploy a third party dependency injection container to wire dependencies more efficiently in application code
- C. Use the standard OSGi @Reference annotation to wire the dependencies in application code
- D. Use BundleContext.getServiceReference(...) and BundleContext.getService(...) in application code to look up for the required services just before usage
- E. Use a mock framework to be able to create and inject mocks in the test code
Correct Answer: C,E 🗳️
A developer has a component located under the path /apps. This component has a Client Library which is directly loaded onto a page. The publish instance loads the page correctly. The dispatcher also loads the page but the Client Library is missing.
How should the developer resolve this issue, while taking security into consideration?
- A. Allow the path to the clientlibs on the dispatcher.
- B. Move the Client Library under /apps/<project>library.
- C. Add the property allowProxy with a boolean value true.
- D. Change the ACLs for the Client Library.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
A developer created an editable template with a Layout Container. The developer needs to restrict the Layout Container to just one column layout.
What should the developer do to the editable template to enforce this restriction?
- A. Overlay wcm.foundation.components.page.responsive Client Library and set @max_col to 1
- B. Using Template Editor, lock the Structure Component for the template
- C. Add responsive column control component to the template and set column type to 1
- D. Using Template Editor, set the responsive settings to 1 column for Layout Container Policy
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
In which two ways can a developer keep simple and maintanable CRX Access Control Lists? (Choose two) Use Deny statements extensively
- A. Delete the `everyone` group
- B. Use Deny statements sparingly
- C. Assign access rights user by user
- D. Assign access rights to user groups rather than users
Correct Answer: A,C 🗳️
A developer identifies that some requests for the page /content/sampleproject/page.html take longer than other requests for the same page.
Refer to the $DOCROOT/content/sampleproject directory below.
[user@group /opt/dispatcher/cache/content/sampleproject ]$ ks -la
total 2
drwxr-xr-x. 5 apache apache 4096 Feb 11 11:41 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 apache apache 4096 Nov 29 16:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 4 apache apache 4096 Feb 7 03:21 page.html
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 0 Feb 7 03:19 .stat
The dispatcher.log file contains the following lines:
[Wed Feb 13 13:14:04 2012] [D] [1376(1572)] checking [/libs/cq/security/userinfo.json]
[Wed Feb 13 13:14:04 2012] [D] [1376(1572)] Caching disabled due to query string: tracking_id=1350373444666
[Wed Feb 13 13:14:04 2012] [D] [1376(1572)] cache-action for [/libs/cq/security/userinfo.json]: None How should the developer make sure that the page is always cached?
- A. "Modify the dispatcher.any file to contain the following lines:
/filter
{
...
/0023 { /type ""allow"" /url ""/content/*/*.html?tracking_id=*"" }
...
}" - B. "Modify the dispatcher.any file to contain the following lines:
/ignoreUrlParams
{
...
/0002 { /glob ""tracking_id"" /type ""allow"" }
...
}" - C. "Modify the dispatcher.any file to contain the following lines:
/filter
{
...
/0023 { /type ""allow"" /url ""/content/*/*.html"" /params ""tracking_id"" }
...
}" - D. "Modify the dispatcher.any file to contain the following lines:
/rules
{
...
/0000 { /glob ""*"" /type ""allow"" /params ""tracking_id"" }
...
}"
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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