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	IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1

Job Role Description / Target Audience

An IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 is a technical professional responsible for the planning, installation, environment setup, configuration, testing and troubleshooting of the IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 solution. It is expected that this person will be able to perform these tasks with limited assistance from peers, product documentation, and support resources.

To attain the IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 certification, candidates must pass 1 test.

Recommended Skills

Key Areas of Competency

Describe the IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 architecture and components
Design IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 solution based on customer environment and requirements
Map customer's IT infrastructure to the Data Center Model
Install and configure prerequisites for IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1
Install and configure IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 software and integrated products.
Configure the Data Center Model using the Web and/or command line interface (CLI)
Work with workflows
Perform IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 administration tasks
Integrate with elemental technologies/products
Perform performance tuning and problem determination for IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1

Required Prerequisite(s)

Strong knowledge of IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 and components
Working knowledge of IBM Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment
Working knowledge of Cygwin
Working knowledge of XML
Working knowledge of operating system deployment and administration in Windows, AIX, Solaris and Linux
Working knowledge of network technology and administration (switches, routers, firewalls)
Working knowledge of relational databases
Working knowledge of LDAP
Working knowledge of shell scripting
Working knowledge of unattended installation methods for software products
Working knowledge of Eclipse
Working knowledge of configuration management concepts

Recommended Prerequisite(s)

Working knowledge of telnet, SSH, FTP, SNMP, SOAP
Working knowledge of IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager V4.2.3
Familiarity with TCP/IP
Working knowledge of other boot servers (Altiris RDP, IBM Remote Deployment Manager, Network Install Manager (NIM), Jumpstart, Kickstart)
Working knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts
Working knowledge of Jython
Working knowledge of server hardware, clustering technologies and storage technologies (blade centers, LPARs, load balancers, WebSphere Edge Server, SAN, NAS)
Working knowledge of security concepts (key encryption, SSH)
Working knowledge of query languages (XPath, SQL)
Working knowledge of virtual servers (VMware, LPARs)
Working knowledge of ITIL

Requirements

This certification requires 1 test(s).

Test(s):

Test 898 - IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 Implementation

Test registration

Authorized Prometric test centers (worldwide testing)

Announcement

IBM certification tests to be delivered only through Prometric, beginning July 2, 2007