Test 000-134: Rational Business Developer v7.1

Section 1 - Advanced Language / Development Environment (30%)

1. Projects, packages, name space, EGL Build Path, import statements
2. Various types of builds
3. Data Parts - primitive type, DataItem, DataTable, record, user-defined part
4. Logic Parts - function, program, library, service, standalone function
5. Statements - move, assignment, comparisons, conversion, initialization
6. Tradeoffs among call, show, forward, transfer to program, transfer to transaction, vgLib.startTransaction()
7. System libraries and variables
8. User interfaces - various UI technologies, I/O statements, validation/formatting properties
9. EGL tools - editor, content assist, code templates, cheat sheets

Section 2 - Data Access (15%)

1. Serial records, CSV records
2. SQL records - including Data Access Wizard, Retrieve SQL, SQL Connections, sqlLib.sqlData, sysVar.sqlData
3. Data access statements, I/O error values
4. Logical unit of work - commit and rollback
5. Related build descriptor options, resource association parts, recordName.resourceAssociation

Section 3 - Application Design (25%)

1. Tradeoffs among various representations for data, numeric data types
2. Tradeoffs among services, libraries, called programs
3. Exception handling
4. Large application system issues, including maintainability, performance, multi-user issues, multi-lingual applications, implications of single source, 2-tier and 3-tier architecture

Section 4 - Generation and Runtime (10%)

1. EGL Build Parts Editor, build parts, build descriptor techniques
2. EGLSDK
3. Deployment descriptor
4. What is supported for generated Java versus generated COBOL
5. Supported runtime environments, including prerequisites for the runtime environments

Section 5 - Interfacing to non-EGL programs or other platforms (10%)

1. Ways of interfacing to non-EGL programs or other platforms
2. Linkage Table
3. Conversion between code pages

Section 6 - Problem Determination (10%)

1. Debugger
2. Problems in runtime environments, runtime tracing