Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect Master

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Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect Master Exam Format

AD0-E117

Everything the official exam blueprint specifies: question count, time limit, scoring and the weight each domain carries. The Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect Master certification validates the advanced technical expertise required to design and implement complex, enterprise-grade web architectures. This exam goes beyond simple development, focusing on the strategic orchestration of AEM as a Cloud Service, ensuring high availability, scalability, and seamless integration within the broader Adobe Experience Cloud ecosystem. Candidates must demonstrate mastery in translating business requirements into robust technical blueprints, managing complex content hierarchies via MSM, and optimizing deployment lifecycles through modern DevOps practices.

60 questions
120 min
70% to pass
5 domains

Exam facts at a glance

What we know about this exam, and where the information comes from.

SpecificationValue
Questions60
Time limit120 minutes (120s per question)
Passing score70%
Domains5
LevelExpert
Question bank here60 questions
SourceCertilum's own record — the vendor does not publish this figure

Official domain weights

The percentage of the exam each domain carries. Weight your revision by these numbers, not by what you find hardest.

DomainWeightTopicsPractice Qs
Discovery18%
  • Requirements gathering
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Business process mapping
  • +2 more
11
Development22%
  • Sling models
  • OSGi services
  • Component development
  • +3 more
13
Architecture27%
  • AEM Sites Core Components
  • Content modeling
  • Multi-site management (MSM)
  • +3 more
16
Business & Analytics12%
  • Adobe Experience Cloud integration
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Analytics implementation
  • +1 more
7
Deployment & Operations21%
  • Cloud Manager workflows
  • AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS)
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • +3 more
13

The heaviest domain is Discovery at 18%, and that is where lost points cost you the most. Certilum scores you per domain so you can see the difference between a knowledge gap and a formatting problem.

Note from the vendor record: Master level per the official Adobe price table (sites-architect-master). The certificate renews free with two renewal modules. Official exam page

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