AD0-E117 practice question 12 of 15

A retail customer with an international presence and both in-store and online sales needs a new assets platform. The customer decides to use A£M…

A retail customer with an international presence and both in-store and online sales needs a new assets platform. The customer decides to use A£M assets. The customer's sites will continue to run on their proprietary CMS for websites. The customer wants to be able to scale the platform for spikes in user traffic such as on local sales or online marketing campaigns. Under some circumstances, the customer also has a higher load of editors for a certain period of time. Which architecture should an Architect use for this business case?

Answer options

A: An AEM Publish instance on Adobe Managed Services with auto scaling

B: An AEM as a Cloud Service Sites with Dynamic Media

C: An AEM Assets setup on Adobe Managed Services with Cloud Manager

D: An AEM as a Cloud Service Assets setup using the combined CDN for delivery Correct answer

Correct Answer:

D. An AEM as a Cloud Service Assets setup using the combined CDN for delivery

Explanation

The customer requires a highly scalable platform for AEM Assets, specifically to handle spikes in both asset delivery traffic and authoring load. AEM as a Cloud Service is architected as a cloud-native solution with auto-scaling capabilities for both its author and publish services, making it ideal for these requirements. The "Assets" offering is the correct product since the customer is not using AEM for Sites. The built-in, combined Content Delivery Network (CDN) ensures globally distributed, scalable, and performant delivery of assets to end-users, addressing the traffic spike requirement.

Why Incorrect

A. This option is less suitable as it focuses only on AEM Publish scaling and doesn't inherently address the need to scale the authoring environment for editor load spikes as effectively as AEMaaCS.
B. The customer is not using AEM for websites, so the "AEM as a Cloud Service Sites" product is incorrect for this use case.
C. Adobe Managed Services (AMS) is a valid hosting option, but AEM as a Cloud Service provides superior, native auto-scaling capabilities that are better suited to the described elasticity requirements.

References

1. Adobe Experience League. (2024). Introduction to AEM as a Cloud Service. "AEM as a Cloud Service provides... dynamic scaling for both the Authoring and Publishing services to meet unexpected traffic patterns." This directly addresses the customer's scaling requirements.

2. Adobe Experience League. (2024). AEM Assets as a Cloud Service. "AEM Assets as a Cloud Service is a cloud-native PaaS solution... It lets organizations easily share and distribute their digital assets." This identifies the correct product for an assets-only use case.

3. Adobe Experience League. (2024). CDN in AEM as a Cloud Service. "AEM as a Cloud Service comes with a built-in CDN... This CDN is sufficient for most customers and their performance requirements." This confirms the delivery mechanism.

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