SITECORE PRACTICE SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR INTERVIEW & CERTIFICATION (PART - 1)

 1. What's the difference among these content material control systems: Sitecore, Umbraco, and Episerver?

Ans: Episerver has a whole lot of superb comments. Sitecore has the enterprise degree and the price is likewise to the employer degree. Sitecore is developer friendly, extensible, and has a large community is the case we look for aid, it has a content shape as a tree of nodes, it's miles acknowledged to steer the content control marketplace, and is rather rated by many agencies. Umbraco has many similarities with Sitecore being constructed on ASP.net however is a bit inexpensive. It additionally has a tremendous network. virtually we are able to pick this kind of depending on flavor, cash, and the fashion that we've got when running.

2. In what manner is using XSL better than C# in Sitecore?

Ans: XSLT has advantages over other languages in the manner that it offers you the possibility to personalize or reuse a huge sort of pages or various structures for source files or another shape. For doing this a rule-primarily based processing version may be used, an element no longer liked by using most of the people due to the plain difficulty this is has on first use. despite the fact that this appears tough at first, it may be viewed like a long-time investment. XLST has no overall performance troubles, if an internet site appears to have performance issues, it should be from different motive.

3. What's the that means of the ocean watchtower photograph that looks at Sitecore log in?

Ans: This photograph seems due to the fact you aren't logged in to the content Editor, but to the developer tool to the computer. The button from the lowest left corner of the display have to be driven(it has the “Sitecore” label on it), then we should hot the “log out” button for returning to the login part. From here the login process might be everyday: we need to hit “content material Editor”, insert the person and password then “Login”.

4. Is there compulsory to place the brand new photograph in a certain vicinity?

Ans: No there's no designed place for new pictures inside the media library, so we might also select our very own folder for this, but we have to be conscious to apply a not unusual region due to the fact the folder numbers is quite large. additionally we need to understand the cause of the folder earlier than doing something.

5. What are the commonplace capabilities of CMS?

Ans: Seo-friendly URLs incorporated and online assist Modularity and extensibility consumer and organization functionality Templating guide for converting designs installation and improve wizards integrated audit logs Compliancy with diverse accessibility frameworks and requirements, such as WAI-ARIA

6. What is Sitecore enjoy Platform?

Ans: Whilst you login to Sitecore the primary display you see is Sitecore enjoy Platform. it is a launchpad display screen that includes the whole thing you require.

Some of the objects you discover in experience Platform are listed underneath. Enjoy Analytics Experience Profile Content Editor Revel in Editor Manipulate Panel Media Library Computing device Mode App middle 

7. What are the exclusive forms of Databases to be had in Sitecore?

Ans: core master web

8. What is Core Database?

Ans:

• As the name indicates Core Database is the backbone of the Sitecore application and it is used for multiple purposes.
• The core database contains all Sitecore settings. It contains the definition of Desktop Mode, Content Editor, Page Editor etc. The core database contains data needed by the Content Manager.
• All the menu items in the Ribbon is stored in the Core Database. In case if you need to create a new menu item in the ribbon you need to add the context and definition in the Core Database. It Contains the membership-related tables which drive Sitecore Authentication, Authorization, and Security. 

9. What's Master Database?

Ans:

• Master Database in Sitecore is also called as content material Authoring Database. whenever you create a brand new piece of content material it will likely be stored within the grasp Database.
• Master Database is used for content Authoring
• Master Database continues the versioning of the contents.
• The Default Database loaded through the content material Editor is master for content material authoring reason. you could add, Edit or Delete new items within the grasp Database and it's miles used for development of recent pages and components.

10. What is Web Database?

Ans: The Web Database contains the live content of the website and it is also called a published Database.

• Web Database is a subset of the Master Database.
• Whenever the content is published from Master Database it goes through the publishing task and the Workflow and the latest version of the content is copied from Master Database to Web Database.
• Web Databases are Optimized for Speed, Size, and Performance.
• You could rename web database in case if you need.
• Often the Enterprise application will have multiple Databases. You could configure as many databases for SIT, UAT and Live according to your need and name it accordingly.

11. What is CM, CD and PI in Sitecore?

Ans:

• Content Management(CM) - CM stands for Content Management server and CM servers are meant for content editing by content authors. Hence we call CM as Content Management.
• Content Delivery(CD) - CD stands for Content Delivery server and basically, it's the live website serving the pages and the contents to the visitors/users. Hence we call CD as Content Delivery.
• Publishing Interface(PI) - PI stands for Publishing Instance server, PI server is responsible for your publishing operations. We can publish content from CM to CD or from Master to Web Databases through publishing interface.

12. What are Different types of Templates in Sitecore?

Ans:

• Data templates
• Parameter Templates
• Datasource templates

13. What is Publishing in Sitecore?

Ans:

• Publishing is a technique so that you can help you to replicate up to date objects from master database to net database.
• Content material Authors will add/edit the content in page editor or thru sitecore content editor inside the CM server which is known as as content material control server. We store all of the contents in the grasp Database.
• So one can pass those edited contents to live we use post interface and post the contents to live.

14. What is Versioning in Sitecore?

Ans: 1. Content authors can add a new version of content for every item in the Sitecore through Content editor or experience editor. We can add as many versions as we need in Sitecore.

2. The content author can rollback to any previous versions easily by selecting it and making it as an active version by publishing it to live.

15. What are tokens in Sitecore?

Ans: Whilst a person creates an item primarily based on a facts template, if the same old fee for any subject in that facts template can contain the tokens which Sitecore replaces token with the corresponding fee of that item.

for example: if we've specific $name token at “identify” discipline in popular price, then Sitecore will update “identify” area with item call which you supplied while growing the object.

Q16. What is Sitecore?

Ans: Sitecore is a customer experience management company that offers web content management and multichannel marketing automation software. The company was founded in 2001.
Sitecore is built using Microsoft technologies and it is mainly used to build enterprise websites and intranet portals. It also supports deployment via Microsoft Azure.
Sitecore provides a complete, attached e-commerce WCM platform that puts the shopper at the heart of every interaction and engagement, irrespective of which e-commerce system ultimately handles their transaction. Delight your customers with a fully joined-up shopping experience.

Q17. What are the Sitecore Support hours?

Ans: The Sitecore Support hours are: Tuesdays (Morten), Wednesdays (Tina) and Fridays (Tina) at 9-12 in 2B09.
During support hours Morten or Tina will answer mails sent to sitecore@itu.dk since last support session and answer questions posed during support hours face-to-face, if people show up in 2B09, or on the phone.

Q18. What are the benefits of using Sitecore?

Ans:

• Powerful Framework
• Intuitive end user Interface.
• Built on cutting edge technology (Microsoft .NET Platform)
• Provides a flexibility to scale the application
• Ease of Customization
• Built in Search Engine Optimization
• Flexible workflows to manage content.
• Multi-Lingual support.
• Multi-Language sites can be created with little effort.
• Highly scalable.
• Role based security
• Provides separate E-Commerce services.
• DMS capabilities for Marketing.
• Good collection of Sitecore modules from Sitecore Market place
• Consistently updated with new features and technologies.
• Good support and service.
• Growing community.

Q19. What are sticky and non-sticky sessions?

Ans:

Sticky session:

What: A method used with Application Load Balancing, to achieve server-affinity.
Why: If the load balancer is instructed to use sticky sessions, all of your interactions will happen with the same physical server, even though other servers are present. Thus, your session object will be the same throughout your entire interaction with this website.

• All your requests will be directed to the same physical web server.
• Only single session object will be there

Non Sticky session:

• In case of a non-sticky load balancer may choose any webserver to serve your requests.
• Session object for each server node

Q20. What’s the difference between these content material control systems: Sitecore, Umbraco, and Episerver?

Ans: Episerver has a mess of wonderful remarks. Sitecore has the venture degree and the cost is moreover at the business degree. Sitecore is engineer amicable, extensible and has a vast group is case we search for help, it has a substance shape as a tree of hubs, it’s miles recognized to direct the substance control commercial center and is somewhat evaluated by numerous organizations. Umbraco has numerous similitudes with Sitecore being developed on ASP.net however is somewhat economical. It moreover has a gigantic system. basically we can pick this sort of relying upon flavor, money and the design that we have when running.

Q21. What are the Different types of Sitecore Interfaces?

Ans: Sitecore has 3 main interfaces till the release of Sitecore 8.0 and here are those interfaces.

• Desktop Mode
• Content Editor Mode
• Page Editor Mode

Q22. Why am I getting a pretty picture of a watchtower by the sea when I log into Sitecore?

Ans: It is because you are logged into the Desktop (the developer tool) instead of the Content Editor (the editor tool). Please click the button with the label “Sitecore” in the lower left corner of the screen and click “Log Off”. This will return you to the Sitecore login screen. Now you can login as usual: Click the “Content Editor” button, write your user name and password and click the “Login” button to login to the Content Editor.

Q23. What is Areas in Sitecore Mvc?

Ans:
What: MVC areas are choice for organizing and separating assets belonging to each tenant, or for breaking up a large single tenant project into multiple modules.
MVC Areas actually do far more than just organize your files into separate directories.  Runtime resolution of assets based on directory convention is also great, and support for this by Visual Studio IntelliSense is even better.
Why: Sitecore offers support for multiple tenants from a single running instance, but it does not provide process or file system isolation for assets developed for each tenant website Where:  sitecore will by default registers all the areas in the initialize pipeline. You can register area in sitecore.mvc.config file

<mvc>

<areas>

<area type=”namespace.classname, assembly name”>

</area>

<excludeareas>

<area type=”namespace.classname, assembly name” />

</excludeareas>

</areas>

</mvc>

To determine the area for each rendering and layout view, Sitecore uses the ResolveArea processor early in the mvc.renderRendering pipeline

When invoking a rendering in code, for example: @Html.Sitecore().ViewRendering("Index", new { area = "MyArea" })

Q24. In what manner is using XSL better than C# in Sitecore?

Ans: XSLT has favorable circumstances over different dialects in the way that it offers you the likelihood to customize or reuse an immense kind of pages or different structures for source documents or another shape. For doing this an administer principally based handling variant might be utilized, a component never again preferred by utilizing a large portion of the general population because of the plain trouble this is has on first utilize. in spite of the way this seems intense at to start with, it might be seen like quite a while venture. XLST has no general execution inconveniences, if a web webpage seems to have execution issues, it ought to be from the various thought process.

Q25. What are the Different types of Databases available in Sitecore?

Ans:

• Core
• Master
• Web

Q26. How can I stop Sitecore from turning the anchor in an anchorlink into a link?

Ans: You are not supposed to turn a line of text into an anchor in Sitecore. Instead you should make the anchor by placing your curser without highlighting any text on the line just above where you want the anchorlink to lead to. Then press the hyperlink button, create the anchor and proceed as usual. This way no text will turn into an unwanted link.

Q27. What is Asp.net Core?

Ans: It has been renamed from ASP.NET 5 to ASP.Net Core 1.0
ASP.NET Core on .NET Core is cross-platform ASP.NET. You can run an application written for .NET Core on Windows, Linux, and Mac. The server doesn't need .NET Core installed - it can be bundled with the application.

ASP.NET Core on .NET Framework (CLR) is ASP.NET on the "full" or "desktop" .NET Framework (e.g. .NET Framework 4.6.2). You can run an application written for the full .NET Framework on Windows. The server will need the full .NET Framework installed.

The goal of .NET Core is having a single code base that can be used to build and support all the platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

• ASP.Net Core apps does not need IIS for hosting
• wwwroot is now place for static files.
• Server side packages save space in core
• New approach to Server side and client side dependency management of packages
• Inbuilt Dependency injection (DI) foe Core
• User secrets of ASP.NET Core

 

Q28. What’s the that methods for the sea watchtower photo that takes a gander at Sitecore sign in?

Ans: This photo appears to be because of the reality you aren’t signed in to the substance Editor, however to the designer instrument to the PC. The catch from the most minimal left corner of the show must be driven(it has the “Sitecore” name on it), at that point we should hot the “log out” catch for coming back to the login part. From here the login procedure may be regular: we have to hit “content material Editor”, embed the individual and secret word then “Login

Q29. What are Items in Sitecore?

Ans: In Sitecore terms, an Item is basically a record in the Database. Everything we see in the Sitecore interface is an Item. An item represents a piece of information like rendering, layout, media file, etc.

Every Item consists of unique GUID, name and Path. An item has a template which defines the structure of an item.

Q30. I have edited a page on itu.dk and published it. Why don’t my changes appear on itu.dk?

Ans: This is probably because you forgot to unlock your version of the page before you published.
Sitecore will always publish the latest UNLOCKED version of a page when someone clicks publish and the publishing dialogue will say that everything went well even though it did not publish the version that you had just been workning on.

Q31. What is shared layout and final layout in Sitecore8?

Ans: In Sitecore, you can specify shared presentation details for all versions of an item, in all languages, and you can specify different presentation details for each individual version of an   item and for each language.
Shared Layout Shared layout is like a shared field. All the controls added in this layout are shared among all the language ad numbered versions.
Final Layout All the changes made to this layout are specific to that language and numbered version. Initially all the controls from shared layout are imported to the final layout. Once you start making any changes in the final layout, these changes will remain here and become specific to that particular language version and numbered version.

Q32. Is there compulsory to place the brand new photograph in a certain vicinity?

Ans: No there’s no outlined place for new pictures inside the media library, so we may likewise choose our own one of a kind envelope for this, yet we must be cognizant to apply a not strange area because of the reality the organizer numbers is very expansive. also we have to comprehend the reason for the organizer sooner than accomplishing something

Q33. What are Different types of Templates in Sitecore?

Ans:

• Data templates
• Parameter Templates
• Datasource templates

Q34. When I test my page on the intranet using Page Editor button there is an image that I did not insert. It is only there when I am testing. Why?

Ans: You do not need to do anything about it. It is there because Sitecore Intranet Portal gives organisations the opportunity to standardise image size and placement, and the landscape image shows that a standardised image would be located there if we were using standardised images. However the university has decided that we do not want that kind of strict standardisation. Therefore we have disabled that function in Sitecore. Unfortunately the Page Editor button insists on showing the landscape image anyway. It will not be there on the live intranet when you unlock your version of the page.

Q35. What is Helix and Habitat?

Ans: Helix is a set of overall design principles and conventions for Sitecore development.
Habitat is a real Sitecore project implemented on the Sitecore Experience Platform using   Helix. It is an example that allows developers to see how Helix is applied and lets developers experience a project based on these principles.

Q36. What are the commonplace capabilities of CMS?

Ans: Website design enhancement neighborly URLs

• Ø joined and online help
• Ø Measured quality and extensibility
• Ø shopper and association usefulness
• Ø Templating guide for changing over outlines
• Ø establishment and enhance wizards
• Ø coordinated review logs
• Ø Compliancy with different availability systems and prerequisites, for example, WAI-ARIA

Q37.  I have uploaded and inserted an image on a page in sitecore and it looked fine in the media library. But in the content editor the picture looks broken?

Ans: Try pressing SAVE. Sometimes Sitecore will show a broken picture in Content Editor if the picture has been inserted recently. When pressing save Sitecore discoveres that the picture has been uploaded and shows the correct picture.

Q38. How to Replace space and underscore with a dash (-) in the URL Sitecore?
 Ans:   Go to sitecore.config file and add the below settings
<encodeNameReplacements>
 <replace mode="on" find=" " replaceWith="-" /> 
 <replace mode="on" find="_" replaceWith="-"/>

</encodeNameReplacements>

Q39. Where should I place my new picture?

Ans: Currently there is no official policy on where in the media library to place images. Therefore you can place your picture in the folder of your choice in the media library. As we do have a lot of folders please use common sense when deciding where to put your image and check if there is a folder that might fit your purpose before you create a new folder.

Q40. What is Sitecore enjoy Platform?

Ans: Whilst you login to Sitecore the primary display you see is Sitecore enjoy Platform. it is a launchpad display screen which includes the whole thing you require.

A portion of the articles you find in encounter Platform are recorded underneath.

• Appreciate Analytics
• Expereince Profile
• Content Editor
• Delight in Editor
• Control Panel
• Media Library
• Processing Device Mode
• Application Middle

Q41. What is a CMS platform?

CMS (Content Management System) is a platform that allows users to easily build and manage websites. In order to build websites we typically use programming languages such as Javascript, CSS, HTML, etc. But CMS platforms eliminate the need for writing lines of code and help you build users friendly, easy-to-manage websites.

Q42. What is Sitecore?

Sitecore is one of the widely deployed enterprise-level CMS software built on ASP.NET and used by organizations around the world to manage websites. It allows content editors and marketers to easily manage tasks like providing personalized experiences, managing social handles, blog posts, eCommerce and more.

Q43.  What are the benefits that Sitecore can offer to Marketers?

Sitecore supports marketers by helping them in performing the below operations:

• Building personalized campaigns
• Building marketing campaigns
• Tracking and analytics
• Single point for gaining visibility into customers
• Analysis
• In offering timely offers
• Build personalized communications
• Social media for greater reach
• Self-service for users and customers.

Q44.  List out the top features of the Sitecore platform?

Following are the top features offered by the Sitecore platform:

• Advanced Editorial Experience
• Multilingual, Multinational websites.
• Ecommerce
• Workflow and security
• Personalization
• Advanced A/B and Multivariate testing
• Search engine optimization
• Analysis
• Print experience manager
• Web forms for marketers
• Email Marketing
• Social Media Marketing
• Consolidation of Marketing tools

Q45.  What is the latest version of the Sitecore platform?

Sitecore Latest version of Sitecore is 10.3.0 which was released in December 2022.

Q46.  What is Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA)?

Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) is a storefront solution that helps in developing Business to Customer (B2C) e-commerce solutions. It comes with advanced commerce components such as webshop templates, sample themes, and sample habitat catalog.

Q47.  What do you know about Sitecore Experience Editor?

Sitecore Editor is one of the powerful features offered by the Sitecore platform and helps the users to build personalization rules. This feature simplifies the process to reach the targeted customers with the right content.

Following are the types of operations that you can perform using Sitecore Experience Editor:

• You can provide a specific offer to first-time visitors
• Give free shipping offers in case of any return
• Offer different discounts on specific social media channels 

Q48.  What are the key features offered by Sitecore XC Business Tools?

• Catalog and sellable item Management
• Inventory Management
• Customer Management
• Order Management
• Promotion Management
• Pricing Management

Q49.  What are the core product offerings of Sitecore?

Sitecore consists of three major products:

• Sitecore Experience Manager (XM)
• Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC)
• Sitecore Experience Platform (XP)

Q50. What is Sitecore Experience Manager (XM)

Sitecore Experience Manager (XM) is also known as web content management (WCM) and an essential building block of the Sitecore platform. XM comes with a wide range of features to manage the tasks such as content creation, personalization, management,  and publishing of content.

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