A content owner is concerned about violating current license agreements for assets that nave reached their contract end date. The Business Practitioner needs to make sure the published assets get…

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Options

• AOff Time
• BExpires
• CUsage Terms
• DisCheckedOut

• A
  15% (8)
• B
  72% (39)
• C
  9% (5)
• D
  4% (2)

Explanation

Expires is the correct property because it enforces a hard publication lock tied to a contract end date - when the expiration date is reached, AEM automatically unpublishes the asset and prevents users in lower-permission groups (like Authors and Contributors) from republishing it without elevated rights. This directly satisfies both requirements: automatic unpublishing and enforcement of republication restrictions.

Off Time (A) is wrong because, while it can schedule an asset to go offline, it does not lock the asset against republication - an Author could simply reschedule or reactivate it. Usage Terms (C) is purely descriptive metadata; it communicates licensing intent but enforces nothing technically. isCheckedOut (D) indicates an asset is locked for editing by a user, which is unrelated to license expiration or publication control.

Memory tip: Think "Expires = expired license = expired access." The word maps directly to the real-world concept of a contract expiring - once it's past, the asset is gone from publication and locked, just like an expired badge revokes entry.

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