Refer to the exhibit. A customer with an existing AEM implementation wants to enrich product pages with technical data coming from their PIM system. The PIM system sits behind an API Management…

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Exhibits

Options

• AIntegrate the AEM Publishers directly with the API Management solution
• BUse a client-side integration with AJAX from the browser to the API Management
• CImport the technical data into the AEM Author and replicate to Publishers
• DConvert the technical data to Content Fragments and expose using Content Services

• A
  63% (17)
• B
  15% (4)
• C
  19% (5)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Connecting AEM Publishers directly to the API Management solution satisfies both critical requirements simultaneously: Publishers fetch live PIM data at request time, ensuring real-time data consistency, while basic auth credentials are stored server-side and never exposed to end users. Option B (client-side AJAX) is immediately disqualifying because it would expose basic auth credentials in the browser, directly violating the secure access requirement. Option C (import to Author and replicate) breaks data consistency - imported data creates a stale copy that drifts from the PIM source of truth, which contradicts the consistency requirement. Option D (Content Fragments via Content Services) has the same flaw as C, since populating Content Fragments still requires importing PIM data into AEM, and Content Services is an outbound delivery pattern for AEM content, not an inbound integration pattern.

Memory tip: Use the two exam keywords as a filter - "data consistency" eliminates any answer involving an AEM-side copy of PIM data (C and D), and "secure access" eliminates any browser-side call (B), leaving the server-to-server Publisher integration as the only answer that survives both checks.

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