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Sitecore-10-NET-Developer Sitecore 10 NET Developer Practice Questions

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223 questions in the full set20 sample questionsUpdated Oct 18, 2025
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Domains covered on the exam 8
  1. Sitecore Structure & Platform18%
  2. System Administration for Developers13%
  3. Versioning and Language Fallback10%
  4. Item and Data Foundations13%
  5. Sitecore API11%
  6. Content Search10%
  7. Rendering and Layout15%
  8. Personalization10%
  1. 1

    A content author reports that they have created a new version of a page in French, but when they preview the site, they still see the English content. The developer has confirmed that item-level and field-level language fallback are enabled. What is the most likely reason the French version is not being displayed?

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    Correct answer: A

    Language fallback operates on the content within the 'web' database (or the target publishing database). If a new language version is created in the 'master' database but not published, the 'web' database will not contain that version. Consequently, when a request is made for that page in French, Sitecore will find no version in the 'web' database and will fall back to the next language in the chain (e.g., English), assuming it exists.

  2. 2

    A developer needs to create a role for junior content editors. The requirements are that users in this role can read, write, and create items under /sitecore/content/Home, but they should not be able to delete any items anywhere on the site. Which set of access rights should be configured for this role?

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    Correct answer: D

    The most effective and maintainable way is to leverage inheritance and explicit denial. Adding the role to sitecore\Author provides a good baseline of content editing rights. Then, to enforce the 'no delete' rule globally for this role, explicitly denying the item:delete right at the root /sitecore item is necessary. Sitecore's security model gives precedence to explicit denials over inherited grants, ensuring this restriction is always applied.

  3. 3

    Case Study: NxtLvl Gaming Website Refactor

    Company Background:
    NxtLvl Gaming runs a popular online portal for video game news, reviews, and community forums. The site was originally built on an older version of Sitecore without following a structured architecture. They are now refactoring the entire solution for Sitecore 10, with a strict mandate to adhere to Helix principles to improve maintainability and scalability. The development team consists of both backend and frontend specialists.

    Current Situation:
    The existing solution is a monolithic Visual Studio project. Content types like 'News Article', 'Review', and 'Forum Post' are all defined in a single large 'Templates' folder. Renderings are similarly disorganized. The site suffers from performance issues, and deploying small changes is risky and time-consuming. A key business goal is to enable rapid development of new features, such as 'Esports Tournament Brackets' and 'Live Streaming Integrations', without impacting existing functionality.

    Technical Requirements:

    1. The new solution must be organized into Foundation, Feature, and Project layers.
    2. All business-specific functionality (News, Reviews, Forums, etc.) must be implemented as separate, independent Feature modules.
    3. A 'Common' Foundation module must provide base templates and shared functionalities like page metadata.
    4. The 'Project' layer should contain only branding, layout definitions, and configuration that assembles the features.
    5. The 'News' feature requires a listing page that displays the 5 most recent 'Review' items in a sidebar. Feature modules must not directly depend on each other.

    Question:
    Given the requirement for the 'News' feature to display a list of recent 'Review' items, which architectural approach correctly implements this within Helix principles?

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    Correct answer: C

    This is the correct Helix pattern. The responsibility for creating the 'Recent Reviews' list belongs to the Feature.Review module. The composition of the final page happens in the Project layer, or on templates defined in the project layer (even if they inherit from feature templates). By configuring the presentation details on the Standard Values of the page template, the Project layer orchestrates the combination of the 'News' feature's main rendering and the 'Review' feature's sidebar rendering without creating a direct dependency between the two feature modules.

  4. 4

    A developer needs to create a rendering that displays different content based on the device the user is visiting from (e.g., a simplified version for mobile). The device detection is already configured. What Sitecore feature should be used to assign a different rendering or data source for the same component based on the current device?

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    Correct answer: C

    Sitecore's Presentation Details can be configured on a per-device basis. In the Layout Details dialog, you can select a specific device (e.g., 'Mobile') and then customize the renderings, placeholders, and data sources for that device. This is the intended mechanism for serving different presentation logic based on the user's device, without needing to create separate content items.

  5. 5

    A developer is creating a computed index field to store the calculated price of a product, which depends on a base price and a discount value from two separate fields. The implementation class inherits from AbstractComputedIndexField. What must be done for Sitecore to recognize and use this new computed field during indexing? (Select THREE)

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    Correct answer: A, B, C

  6. 6

    A development team is implementing a multi-tenant Sitecore solution following Helix principles. They have a 'Foundation.Common' module providing a base page template and a 'Feature.News' module with a 'News Article' template inheriting from the base page. The 'Project.MainWebsite' layer uses these templates. During a code review, it's noted that the 'Feature.News' module directly references a rendering from a 'Feature.SocialSharing' module to display share buttons. According to Helix dependency rules, what is the most appropriate way to resolve this architectural violation?

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    Correct answer: B

    This is the correct Helix approach. Feature modules should not depend on each other directly. By using a placeholder, the 'Feature.News' module remains independent. The 'Project' layer, which is allowed to reference multiple Feature modules, is responsible for orchestrating how features are combined on a page. This maintains loose coupling and adheres to the Stable Dependencies Principle.

  7. 7

    A Sitecore administrator is attempting to configure a new content delivery (CD) server role. After deploying the files and attempting to start the site, they observe that the application pool fails to start, and logs indicate a configuration error related to a custom pipeline processor. The administrator needs to ensure this processor only loads on the content management (CM) server. What is the correct XML syntax to use in a patch file to achieve this?

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    Correct answer: B

    The correct syntax for restricting a configuration element to a specific server role in Sitecore 10 is by using the role:require attribute. The value 'ContentManagement' is the predefined role name for CM servers. This ensures that the configuration factory only includes this processor element when the server's role is defined as ContentManagement.

  8. 8

    A global company has a website with content in English (en), German (de-DE), and Swiss German (de-CH). The business rule is that if a field in a Swiss German item version is empty, it should display the value from the German version. If the German version is also empty, it should not fall back to English. Which configuration settings are required to implement this specific language fallback chain? (Select TWO)

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    Correct answer: A, C

  9. 9

    A developer is creating a set of templates for blog authors. They've created a base template called _ContentBase with fields for 'Title' and 'Summary'. They want to create a new template, BlogPost, which inherits from _ContentBase. To improve the authoring experience, whenever a new BlogPost item is created, the 'Title' field should be pre-populated with the name of the item. How should this be accomplished using Sitecore best practices?

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    Correct answer: B

    Sitecore Standard Values support replacement tokens. The $name token is specifically designed to be replaced with the name of the item being created. By setting this token on the 'Title' field of the BlogPost template's Standard Values, any new item created from this template will automatically have its title populated with its name, providing a sensible default for content authors.

  10. 10

    A developer needs to retrieve all child items of the /sitecore/content/Home item that are based on the 'ProductPage' template. For performance reasons, the query should avoid returning all children and then filtering in memory. Which Sitecore API code snippet performs this query most efficiently?

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    Correct answer: C

    Sitecore Fast Query is a highly optimized API for item retrieval that bypasses many of the events and abstractions of the standard Item API. The query fast:/sitecore/content/Home/*[@@templatename='ProductPage'] is the most direct and performant way to get immediate children of a specific template. The * selects immediate children, and the predicate [@@templatename='ProductPage'] filters them at the database level, which is much more efficient than retrieving all children and filtering in the application's memory.

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