Sitecore AI Terminology for Certification Flashcards | Quizlet

Organization

A business unit that contains related team members and Sitecore products that you're subscribed to. A Company can have many organizations, and an organization can have many products.

Content Management Instance

The entity where site content, versioning rules, workflows, translations, rules, permissions, and content modelling are managed.

Starter Kit

Template code base for Sitecore implementations.

System environment variables

Settings for core parts of environment that cannot be changed in prod.

User controlled environment variables

Custom environment variables used for connecting to third party systems.

Item

Building blocks of Sitecore where everything is an item (e.g., pages, templates, page designs).

Attributes common to all Items

A GUID ID, path to item location, item name, and display name.

Field

Property of an item holding some data.

Template

Defines the structure of content items, is made up of sections, has field types defined on it, and can inherit from a base template.

Standard Template

Default base template all templates use, unless excluded by inheritance of another base template.

Rendering

Configuration item that stores info about one component in the head application, located in /sitecore/layout/Renderings/Feature. Used interchangeably with 'Component'.

Rendering Variant

Rendering override that shows a rendering in a different layout.

Rendering Parameter

Passes extra info to a component, outside from what the data source provides; used mostly for styling.

Rendering Definition

Item used to represent the rendering, which references a rendering parameter template item and is found in /sitecore/layout/Renderings in Content Editor.

Data Source

Content sources that can be internal (stored on page or site level) or external (called using GraphQL queries, JSON snippets, or RESTful HTTP requests).

Internal Data Sources

Text, images, media, and site pages stored on the page or site level; a page data source can be set to itself.

External Data Sources

Data sources that can be called using GraphQL queries, JSON snippets, or RESTful HTTP requests.

Dynamic component

A component that adapts its behavior or presentation based on user interactions or data.

Project

Logical grouping of environments.

Environment

Entity that holds a set of configurations, code, and implementations, including ONE content management instance, experience edge tenant, databases, indexes, automation clients, environment variables, rendering hosts, and an app tenant connecting CM instance with page and component functionality.

Site

A collection of one or more pages.

Page

An item that has one or more components and is made up of multiple renderings.

Site Collection

Parent Item that groups related sites to organize them according to business unit or brand.

Experience Edge

GraphQL API-based service endpoint that allows you to retrieve layout and content through a CDN.

Environment Files

Variables stored in an .env file when in a Next.js application or in env.local when used locally; consists of 3 types: system, user-controlled, and custom.