Question 1
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What are 3 key benefits of the Magento Cloud production architecture? (3 of 5)
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Is limited to 1 Availability Zone
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Guaranteed site uptime
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Highly resilient and fault tolerant
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Allows for zero-downtime upsizing
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Scaling of the entire server stack rather than just the application layer
Question 2
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What are 3 key benefits of leveraging Fastly for full page cache on Magento Cloud? (3 of 5)
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Improved response times across the globe
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Significantly reduced load at the origin
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Improved page load performance across the globe
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Automatic translation of all content
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Improved troubleshooting capabilities
Question 3
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What are the 2 key benefits of the read-only core file system? (Pick 2)
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Core files can be easily overwritten in the production environment
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Significantly reduces the surfaces available to attack
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Improves website performance
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Guarantees all changes to production environment are tracked
Question 4
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What type of users are you able to add through the onboarding UI?
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Environment admin
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Magento Admin
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Content Manager
Question 5
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Which of these resources can you access from the UI?
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Environment link
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Help Center
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DNS
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Dev docs links
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Google
Question 6
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Can users access the Cloud project interface from the onboarding UI?
Question 7
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Who should be provided shared access under the Magento account?
Question 8
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What are three main advantages of the Pro account over the Starter account?
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It runs on a shared infrastructure
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It includes a dedicated Launch Manager
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It combines the powerful benefits of Magento Commerce with a cloud hosting agreement for
smaller merchants
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It runs on an isolated and dedicated hardware setup in the underlying Infrastructure-as-a-Service
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It has extended core features
Question 9
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Which two actions are the most common use cases for the Integration environment?
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To develop and fix code changes
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To test functionality of new complete modules
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To test environment and Magento settings
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To merge to production environment
Question 10
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What are two key features of the Magento Cloud CLI tool?
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It helps automatically build and deploy your Cloud projects
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It helps with Magento management and Git interactions
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It allows you to use the hooks to run shell commands during the build, deploy, and post-deploy phases
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It duplicates the Magento Cloud Admin UI
Question 11
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When updating Magento Cloud specific configuration files, what folder do you find them under?
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.magento
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update
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m2-hoftixes
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/etc
Question 12
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What are the only writeable folders in the application root on a remote cloud project?
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m2-hotfixes, var, pub/static, app/etc
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update, var, app/etc, m2-hotfixes
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var, app/etc, pub/media, pub/static, /tmp
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.magento, pub/media, app/etc, m2-hotfixes
Question 13
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What is the name of the flexible toolset that is used to deploy Magento to Magento Cloud?
Question 14
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How would you apply a patch to a package under vendor on Magento Cloud?
Solution: Place the .patch file into the m2-hotfixes folder in the project root. It will be applied automatically during the build phase (before the code is moved to a read-only mount).
Question 15
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Where is the latest sample .magento.env.yaml file stored?
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.magento
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application root
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vendor
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update
Question 16
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What is the limitation for a build script?
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A script cannot write to files
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No connections to any service
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Must not take more than 30 seconds systime
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Only shell scripts can be run
Question 17
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Which two actions can be used to retrieve connection data for services installed on the environment?
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$_ENV[‘MAGENTO_CLOUD_RELATIONSHIPS’]
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CLI command magento-cloud relationships
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ece-tools command relationships
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From the Cloud UI
Question 18
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You have installed a new composer package, committed the changed composer.json file but the package is not present in the successful integration build. What is the possible cause?
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The updated composer.lock file wasn’t committed
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The package repository was offline
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A newer version of the package has been marked as stable and needs to be used
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A conflict with another package in the version installed on integration stopped composer from installing the new package
Question 19
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During which phase is the site in downtime?
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Build
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Pre-Deploy
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Deploy
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Post-Deploy
Question 20
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Where can you find information that a patch was applied?
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var/log/cloud.log
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/var/cloud.log
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Cloud UI deployment history log
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CLI command output if redeployment was triggered by this command
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Open a support ticket to request information
Question 21
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Why should you not extend the build script at the end which generates/modifies static content?
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The file system is read-only at this point
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All generated files were already moved to the init directory by the main script
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You need to add this script in the deploy phase
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If the last script is not the ece-tools, it won’t be run
Question 22
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If you want to have the maximum verbosity level for the deploy script only, what changes should you make?
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Set stage/global/VERBOSE_COMMANDS as "" and stage/deploy/VERBOSE_COMMANDS as “-vvv”
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Set stage/global/VERBOSE_COMMANDS as "" and stage/deploy/VERBOSE_COMMANDS as “-v”
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Set only stage/build/VERBOSE_COMMANDS as "” as by default all stages have “-vvv”
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Set only stage/deploy/VERBOSE_COMMANDS as "-vvv"
Question 23
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What is the cause if after a deployment with SKIP_SCD: true the static content looks broken? Note that on the previous deployment SCD was run on the Build phase with default settings SKIP_SCD: false and STATIC_CONTENT_SYMLINK: true.
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You have enabled CLEAN_STATIC_FILES which removes all previously generated static files
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You have broken symlinks in the pub/static directory
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You have enabled STATIC_CONTENT_SYMLINK which remove files from pub/static and create symlinks
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SCD_MATRIX configuration has an empty array for all themes
Question 24
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What is the best configuration to minimize the next deployment time when using SCD with the compact strategy?
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Use stage/global/SCD_ON_DEMAND: true and stage/global/SCD_STRATEGY: compact
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Move SCD to the Build phase and use stage/global/SCD_STRATEGY: compact with stage/global/SKIP_HTML_MINIFICATION: true
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Leave SCD on the Deploy phase and use stage/global/SCD_STRATEGY: compact
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Move SCD to the Build phase and use stage/global/SKIP_SCD: true with
stage/global/SKIP_HTML_MINIFICATION: true
Question 25
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What is the best configuration to store previously generated static content for the next deployment? The previous deployment generated static content on the Deploy phase
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Use stage/global/CLEAN_STATIC_FILES: false
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Use stage/global/SCD_ON_DEMAND: true
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Use stage/global/SKIP_SCD: true
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Move SCD to the Build phase and use stage/global/SKIP_SCD: false and stage/global/STATIC_CONTENT_SYMLINK: false
Question 26
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Magento has the following data for timezone field (path general/locale/timezone )
• DB has records for:
- ‘default’ scope – America/Los_Angeles
- ‘stores’ scope and code ‘default’ – America/Chicago
• app/etc/config.php has system/default/general/locale/timezone => Europe/London
• app/etc/env.php has system/default/general/locale/timezone => Europe/Stockholm
What timezone does the store view have with code ‘default’?
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America/Los_Angeles
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America/Chicago
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Europe/London
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Europe/Stockholm
Question 27
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While reviewing a third-party extension you see the following constructor:
public function __construct(Config $config, EntityFactory $factory = null)
{
$this->config = $config;
$this->factory = $factory ?? ObjectManager::getInstance()->create(EntityFactory::class);
}
What step do you take during the review to ensure that the class is compatible with Magento Commerce Cloud?
Answer
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Flag the class as incompatible because the ObjectManager is used
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Check that the Entity base class of the factory exists
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Mark the class as compatible
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Change the code so the ObjectManager is also injected as a dependency
Question 28
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While reviewing a third-party extension you see the following constructor:
public function __construct(Config $config)
{
$this->config = $config;
$this->command = ObjectManager::getInstance()->create(Command\Proxy::class);
}
What step do you take during the review to ensure that the class is compatible with Magento Commerce Cloud?
Answer
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Flag the class as incompatible because ObjectManager::create() is used to create the command proxy
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Check that the Proxy base class exists
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Mark the class as compatible
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Change the code so that the Command\Proxy is passed as a constructor argument
Question 29
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What are three cloud specific variables?
Question 30
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How often are Snapshots taken for Production and Staging environments on Commerce Pro?
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Every 12 hours
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Every 6 hours
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Every 4 hours
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Every 2 hours
Question 31
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How are snapshots initiated for the Production and Staging environments on Commerce Pro?
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Automatic for both Pro and Stater
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Manual for both Pro and Starter
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Automatic for Pro and manual for Starter
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Manual for Pro and Automatic for Starter
Question 32
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What is included in Snapshots of the Production and Staging environments on Magento Commerce Pro?
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Files only
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Files and database only
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Everything on the EBS volume, including the persistent data from all running services
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Everything on the EBS volume, except the persistent data from all running services
Question 33
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When backups are transferred to S3, which region are they stored in be default?
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The region furthest from the customers production region
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The same AWS region as the production environment
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Any region other than the same AWS region as the production environment
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All of the AWS regions
Question 34
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Are backups of the production environment encrypted and why?
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No, backups are not encrypted because S3 storage is not encrypted by default
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Yes, backups are encrypted because S3 storage is encrypted by default
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No, backups are not encrypted because the production EBS volumes are not encrypted
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Yes, backups are encrypted because the EBS volumes are encrypted
Question 35
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How are restores initiated in the Production environment for Pro and Starter?
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Production restores can be initiated via the Cloud UI/CLI for both Starter and Pro
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Production restores are initiated via a support ticket for both Starter and Pro
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Production restores for Pro are initiated via a support ticket and production restores for Starter are initiated via the Cloud UI/CLI
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Production restores for Pro are initiated via the Cloud UI/CLI and production restores for Starter are initiated via a support ticket
Question 36
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What's the preferred method of debugging on Magento Cloud?
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Committing var_dump()s and die()s into your code
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SSH'ing into the server and manually inserting var_dump()s and die()s into your code
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Creating an extension and installing it via Composer which injects var_dump()s and die()s into your code
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Using Xdebug
Question 37
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You have attempted to merge code up to the parent branch and the merge failed due to a conflict. How do you identify the conflicting files? (2 of 4)
Question 38
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You have identified the files that caused the Git merge conflict. Which tool will you use to resolve the conflicts? (2 of 5)
Answer
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Magento Cloud UI
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magento-cloud CLI
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git CLI
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git UI
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Your analytics tool
Question 39
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Where should the domain name be pointed?
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Fastly
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Magento Cloud
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Server
Question 40
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You are in the planning stage for a large promotion with 40% off all products and you expect a significant increase in traffic. When do you notify Magento of the event?
Question 41
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Which three key data points do you need to provide to Magento 72 hours prior to a planned traffic surge event? (pick 3)
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When the event will occur
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How much revenue the event will generate
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% increase in traffic / orders
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Expected duration of the event
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Which products will be most popular during the event
Question 42
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When reviewing New Relic you notice a surge in requests, and you realize you are experiencing an unexpected traffic surge. When do you need to notify Magento for upsizing to occur?
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Immediately
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It is too late, your site will crash
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Magento will upsize the environment as necessary to maintain the SLA
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The next day
Question 43
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You have notified Magento of a planned traffic surge event that will occur in approximately 72 hours. What are the benefits of this prior notice? (pick 2)
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The additional resources are available when the traffic arrives
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The Support team will be aware of the event
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Upsizing prior to a surge event guarantees a higher conversion rate
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There are no benefits to prior notice