Date: 2012-05-29
URL: http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/obj374.shtml
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Objectives
The test consists of seven sections containing a total of 56 multiple-choice questions. The percentages after each section title reflect the approximate distribution of the total question set across the sections.
Section 1 - Planning (11%)
- Describe the features and benefits of IBM WebSphere MQ
- Understand migration considerations (e.g., 64 bit)
- Describe platform-specific functionalities of WebSphere MQ.
- Describe the necessary pre-requisites for implementing an IBM WebSphere MQ configuration
- Demonstrate appropriate logging options for a recovery strategy
Section 2 - Installation and Configuration (16%)
- Create a working queue manager
- Create the necessary IBM WebSphere MQ objects to support an application
- Demonstrate differences between persistent and non-persistent messages
- Apply features of IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer, MQSC scripting, PCF commands, ISPF panels (Interactive Systems Productivity Facility), and Command Language (CL)
- Create or modify IBM WebSphere MQ objects necessary for a triggered application
- Configure IBM WebSphere MQ objects for Web Services and HTTP
- Configure IBM WebSphere MQ objects for JMS
Section 3 - Basic Administration (14%)
- Operating queue managers and appropriate queue manager services
- Prepare procedures to recover messages and queues in the event of failure
- Analyze IBM WebSphere MQ performance for application throughput
- Monitor and change IBM WebSphere MQ objects using the administrative facilities
- Configure IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer for remote administration
Section 4 - Distributed Queuing and Clustered Queue Management (21%)
- Analyze and select the appropriate IBM WebSphere MQ configuration. (e.g., hub and spoke, star, clustering)
- Create the appropriate IBM WebSphere MQ objects to satisfy a WebSphere MQ network design
- Install an IBM WebSphere MQ client and connect the client to a queue manager
- Use appropriate methods of operating channels
- Create and manage the objects required to enable clustering
- Implement IBM WebSphere MQ clustering workload management capabilities
- Describe different message channel compression options for IBM WebSphere MQ
- Predict the final destination of a message given a scenario containing alias or remote definitions
Section 5 - Publish and Subscribe (11%)
- Create a basic broker topology
- Migrate publish/subscribe applications from IBM WebSphere MQ V6.0 to V7.0
- Select the appropriate publish/subscribe topology
- Manage topics and subscriptions
- Set up security for IBM WebSphere MQ publish/subscribe
Section 6 - Problem Determination (16%)
- Locate problem information (e.g., IBM WebSphere MQ error logs, operating system logs, FFST files)
- Investigate and determine the cause of a problem
- Produce an IBM WebSphere MQ trace
- Monitor messages (e.g., event monitoring, accounting/statistical gathering)
- Recover from a problem
Section 7 - Security (11%)
- Describe the security features provided in IBM WebSphere MQ
- Control access to IBM WebSphere MQ objects
- Configure IBM WebSphere MQ channels with SSL
- Demonstrate the need for and install various channel exits