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IBM Certified Solution Designer -- Rational Performance Tester


Job Role Description / Target Audience

An intermediate level solution designer is an individual with extensive product knowledge who understands how to use the IBM Rational Performance Tester tool to validate the performance, scalability and reliability of Web-based, SAP, Siebel, or Citrix hosted systems.  This person is proficient in creating dynamic tests, developing workload schedules for various performance and load testing scenarios, execute tests with both small and large loads, and evaluating resulting data to measure, analyze and pinpoint factors that affect system performance and other related issues before deployment.

It is expected that this solution designer will be generally self-sufficient and able to perform the tasks involved in the role with limited assistance from peers, product documentation and vendor support services.

To attain the IBM Certified Solution Designer - IBM Rational Performance Tester certification, candidates must pass 1 test. 


Recommended Skills

TST370 Essentials of IBM Rational Performance Tester

  • Understanding of the many types of performance testing
  • Some real world experience with performance testing
  • Conceptual understanding of workload analysis
  • Basic understanding of statistical analysis concepts

  • Good understanding of computer systems networking and network protocols 
  • Working knowledge of HTTP and web-based systems
  • Some experience with one or all of the following:
    • SAP systems and networking
    • Siebel systems and networking
    • Citrix systems and networking
    • other client-server networking, such as sockets

  • A high level of experience with Eclipse and TPTP
  • Some familiar with Java for extending tests
  • Awareness of computer memory handling
  • Experience with automated testing tools


Requirements

This certification requires 1 test(s).

Test(s):

  1. 647 - Rational Performance Tester



Test registration

Authorized Prometric test centers (worldwide testing)