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IBM Certified Deployment Professional - TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.3


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Job Role Description / Target Audience

ROLE DESCRIPTION

An IBM Certified Deployment Professional - TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.3 is a person who performs the requirements gathering and planning for the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center deployment and integration into a computing environment. This person performs installation, configuration, administration and problem determination of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.3, and demonstrates the features and functions of this product to the end user. It is expected that this person will be able to perform these tasks with limited assistance from peers, product documentation and vendor support services.

Key areas of competency:

Determine the storage standards and best practices to be used in a customer environment.
Assess customer requirements and create a solution design
Analyze the deployment environment 
Develop and implement the project plan 
Perform basic installation of the prerequisite applications  
Demonstrate the use of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.3 features and functions to the end user
Provide a general understanding of storage infrastructure  
Apply storage management concepts 
Troubleshoot IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.3 components


Recommended Skills

REQUIRED PREREQUISITES:

The following qualifications are requirements for success:

Working knowledge of supported TPC server operating systems (AIX, Windows, and Linux)
Basic understanding of networking, TCP/IP and SNMP 
Basic skills for DB2
Basic skills for CIM/OM (Common Information Model / Object Manager)
Working knowledge of system administration for user account management
Working knowledge of storage hardware technologies (NAS, DAS, SAN) 
Working knowledge of distributed server technologies 
Working knowledge of storage concepts 
Working knowledge of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.3 Standard Edition
Working knowledge of Tivoli Common Agent Services
Working knowledge of upgrading TPC to version 3.3

RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES:

In addition, experience in the following areas is highly recommended:

Basic knowledge of the supported TPC agent operating systems 
Basic knowledge of operating system maintenance (fixes, patches, etc.)
Basic knowledge for upgrading DB2 
Basic knowledge of WebSphere


Requirements

This certification requires 1 test(s).

Test(s):

  1. Test 907 - IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.3 Implementation
Test registration

Authorized Prometric test centers (worldwide testing)

Announcement

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