AD0-E722 Adobe Commerce Architect Master Questions and Answers

To display additional content on the home page based on a custom customer attribute, the Architect needs to do the following steps:

• Add a new context value of “my_attribute” to Magento\Framework\App\Http\Context. This will allow the Full Page Cache to generate different versions of the page for customers with different values of “my.attribute”. The context value can be set using a plugin on the Magento\Customer\Model\Context class.
• Add a dynamic block with the content to the Home Page. A dynamic block is a type of content block that can be configured to display only to specific customer segments or conditions. The Architect can use the ‘my.attribute’ in the conditions of the dynamic block and assign it to the Home Page in the Content > Blocks section of the Admin Panel. References:
• Private content | Magento 2 Developer Documentation
• Dynamic Blocks | Adobe Commerce 2.3 User Guide - Magento

These two options are both valid ways to manage routing for the bespoke news section and adhere to best practice. Option B leverages the existing URL rewrite functionality of Adobe Commerce, which allows creating custom URLs for any entity type and storing them in the database. This option requires creating a standard controller route for the news entity type, such as news/article/view/id/i, where i is the news article ID. Then, on saving each news article, a rewrite rule is generated that maps the internal URL to the desired SEO-friendly URL, such as news/{date}/{article_url_key}. The rewrite rule is stored in the url_rewrite table, which is used by the standard router to match and redirect requests.

Option C involves creating a custom router class that implements \Magento\Framework\App\RouterInterface and runs before the standard router in the routing process. The custom router class can match the news portion of the URL and extract the date and URL key parts from it. Then, it can look for and load a news articlethat matches those values using a model or repository class. If a match is found, it can set the request parameters accordingly and dispatch the request to a controller action that renders the news article page.

References:

• Routing | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide
• URL Rewrites | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide
• Custom Router | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide

• Option B is correct because using VCL snippets to offload the redirect to Fastly is the best way to configure the redirects and ensure performance. VCL snippets are custom code segments that can be added to the Fastly configuration to modify the behavior of the caching service. By using VCL snippets, the redirects can be handled at the edge server level, without reaching the Magento application or the database. This reduces the server load and improves the response time for the redirected requests1.
• Option A is incorrect because adding each redirect in the magento/routes.yaml file is not a recommended way to configure the redirects. The magento/routes.yaml file is used to define custom routes for Magento Cloud projects, such as mapping domains or subdomains to environments or services. Adding redirects in this file can cause conflicts with the existing routes and affect the routing logic of the project2.
• Option C is incorrect because adding each redirect as a URL rewrite via the admin UI is not an optimal way to configure the redirects. The URL rewrite feature in Magento allows creating custom URLs for products, categories, and CMS pages, and redirecting them to their canonical URLs. However, adding a large number of URL rewrites can increase the database size and affect the performance of the Magento application. Moreover, using the admin UI for this task can be tedious and error-prone3.

References:

• 1: Custom VCL snippets | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide
• 2: Configure routes | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide
• 3: URL Rewrites | Adobe Commerce User Guide

The Architect should recommend replacing all Vendor\PaymentModule\Gateway\Config\Config Classes with virtualType of Magento\Payment\Gateway\Config\Config and setting under config.xml. This will avoid redundant dependency and duplicate code among the methods. The virtualType of Magento\Payment\Gateway\Config\Config will inherit the functionality of the base class and allow the customization of the constructor arguments, such as the pathPattern and valueHandlerPool. The backend_Model attribute of the user_secret field will specify that the value of this field should be encrypted and decrypted by the Magento\Config\Model\Config\Backend\Encrypted class, which implements the \Magento\Framework\App\Config\ValueInterface interface and uses the \Magento\Framework\Encryption\EncryptorInterfaceinternally12. This way, the payment modules do not need to depend on the \Magento\Framework\Encryption\EncryptorInterface or the \Magento\Framework\App\Config\ScopeConfigInterface directly, and can use the getValue method of the Magento\Payment\Gateway\Config\Config class to get the decrypted value of the user_secret field3. References:

• How to encrypt system configuration fields in Magento 2 - Mageplaza
• Magento 2: How to Encrypt/Decrypt System Configuration Fields - Webkul Blog
• Magento 2: How to create custom payment method - BelVG Blog

• Option A is correct because enabling the config flag under deployment/blue_green/enabled is one of the steps to ensure zero downtime during the deployment process of Magento 2 on-premises. This flag enables the blue-green deployment feature, which allows deploying a new version of the Magento application to a separate environment (blue) without affecting the current live environment (green). Once the new version is ready, the traffic can be switched from green to blue with minimal or no downtime1.
• Option C is correct because running bin/magento setup:upgrade --keep-generated is another step to ensure zero downtime during the deployment process of Magento 2 on-premises. This command updates the database schema and data without deleting the generated code and static view files. This way, the Magento application can still serve requests from the cache while the database is being upgraded2.
• Option B is incorrect because running bin/magento setup:upgrade --dry-run=true does not upgrade the database, but only checks if there are any errors or conflicts in the database schema or data. This command can be used for testing purposes, but it does not affect the deployment process or the downtime3.
• Option D is incorrect because there is no such option as --convert-old-scripts-true for the bin/magento setup:upgrade command. This option does not exist in Magento 2 and does not have any effect on the deployment process or the downtime.
• Option E is incorrect because there is no such config flag as developer/zero_down_time/enabled in Magento 2. This flag does not exist in Magento 2 and does not have any effect on the deployment process or the downtime.

References:

• 1: Blue-green deployment | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide
• 2: Deploy Magento to production | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide
• 3: Command-line installation options | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide

According to the Adobe Commerce documentation, the output of a GraphQL mutation is declared by specifying the type of the data returned by the mutation. The type can be either a scalar type (such as String, Int, Boolean, etc.), an object type (such as Cart, Product, Customer, etc.), or a union type (such as SearchResult, which can be either Product or Category). A union type is used when the mutation can return more than one possible type of data, depending on the input or the logic of the mutation. In this case, the mutation can return either a Cart type or a ConfigurableProduct type, depending onthe number of variants of the configurable product. Therefore, the output of the mutation should be declared as a union type that includes both Cart and ConfigurableProduct types. Option B is the only option that correctly declares a union type using the pipe symbol (|) to separate the possible types. Option A and Option C are incorrect because they use brackets ([ ]) and curly braces ({ }), which are used for declaring list types and input object types, respectively.

References:

• GraphQL API - Adobe Inc.
• Schema language with GraphQL | Adobe Commerce

According to the Adobe Commerce documentation, the Source Selection Interface is the main interface for implementing custom source selection algorithms. The interface defines a method called execute(), which takes a list of items to be shipped and a stock ID as parameters, and returns a SourceSelectionResultInterface object, which contains the recommended sources and quantities for each item. The Architect can create a new class that implements this interface and provides the logic for finding the lowest-cost warehouse that is open for each item. The Architect can then register the new class as an option for the source selection algorithm in the di.xml file of the custom module.

References:

• Source Selection Algorithm | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide
• Source Selection Interface | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide

This solution ensures that the data returned by the GraphQL queries is up to date, while also maintaining performance. By specifying a $cache(cacheidentity: Path\To\identityclass) directive for each GraphQL query, the relevant brands and associated products will be added as cache tags. 

The carrier model class can implement caching methods to store and retrieve the quotes from the API based on the request parameters. This can reduce the number of API calls and improve the performance of the shipping rate calculation. The _setCachedQuotes() method can save the response from the API to a cache storage, and the _getCachedQuotes() method can check if there is a cached response for the current request and return it if it exists. References: Caching in carrier model, Carrier model interface

According to the Adobe Commerce documentation, the best way to add a custom tax calculation to all orders is to declare a new total collector in the “etc/sales.xml” file of a custom module. This way, the custom tax logic can be implemented in a separate class that extends the \Magento\Quote\Model\Quote\Address\Total\AbstractTotal class and overrides the collect() and fetch() methods. The collect() method is responsible for calculating the tax amount and adding it to the quote address, while the fetch() method is responsible for displaying the tax amount in the cart and checkout pages. The new total collector can be assigned to any area of the order totals, such as before or after the subtotal, shipping, or grand total.

References:

• Customizing order totals
• How to add custom fee or discount to order totals in Magento 2

The group property determines which section of the customer account the attribute belongs to. By setting the group property to 1, the reward_card_number attribute will be assigned to the default group, which is the Account Information section. This will make the attribute available in the My account/My rewards page template. References: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/commerce-admin/customers/customer-accounts/attributes/attribute-properties.html?lang=en#group 1

The error is caused by the missing class declaration for the custom condition class. According to the Adobe Commerce documentation, to create a custom customer segment condition, the class must extend the \Magento\CustomerSegment\Model\Condition\AbstractCondition class and implement the \Magento\CustomerSegment\Model\Condition\Combine\Interface interface. The class must also declare its name, label, value type, and attribute code properties. Option B is the only option that correctly declares the class with the required properties and inheritance. Option A and Option C are incorrect because they do not extend the AbstractCondition class or implement the CombineInterface interface, and they do not declare the name, label, value type, or attribute code properties.

References:

• Create a customer segment condition | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide
• AbstractCondition | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide