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Test 314: IBM WebSphere Message Broker V6.1, System Administration


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The test consists of six sections containing a total of approximately 53 multiple-choice questions. The percentages after each section title reflect the approximate distribution of the total question set across the sections.

Section 1 - Planning, Installation and Migration (15%)

  1. Plan and design for topology
  2. Define requirements for version control
  3. Plan the environment and required hardware
  4. Install and verify successful installation of WebSphere Message Broker V6.1
  5. Migrate brokers, message flows and message sets from a previous version/release to WebSphere Message Broker V6.1
  6. Plan for the application security environment

Section 2 - Configuration (36%)

  1. Implement all supported transport protocols (e.g., MQ, JMS, HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, files, multicast)
  2. Define and implement requirements for broker and application databases
  3. Create, delete, modify, start and stop configuration managers, brokers and user name servers
  4. Connect to Configuration Manager domains
  5. Create, delete and modify execution groups
  6. Implement Publish/Subscribe such as topics, Access Control Lists (ACLs) and managing subscriptions
  7. Create and modify a broker topology (containing collectives, cloned brokers and broker connections)
  8. Create, delete, modify and list Configuration Manager Access Control Lists (ACLs)
  9. Set up configurable services
  10. Implement and use WebSphere Message Broker Explorer (SupportPac IS02)
  11. Implement security with SSL
  12. Configure WebSphere Message Broker to interact with other IBM products (WSRR, WebSphere DataPower, WebSphere Adapter)
  13. Configure policy sets to interact with LDAP or Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM)

Section 3 - Deployment, Administration and Operations (32%)

  1. State the capabilities of Configuration Manager Proxy (CMP)
  2. Define and write scripts
  3. Monitor and query the status of various components
  4. Setup WebSphere Message Broker to produce statistical and accounting data
  5. Modify the configurable properties of broker archive files
  6. Deploy broker archive files to execution groups
  7. Deploy broker configuration and the topology
  8. Remove deployed children from a broker or an execution group
  9. List deployed resources on brokers
  10. Stop or start execution groups or message flows
  11. Use IBM processes to apply new versions, fixpacks, fixes, SupportPacs to enhance products
  12. Back-up the relevant information so that a working WebSphere Message Broker environment can be restored in the event of a disaster

Section 4 - Problem Determination (17%)

  1. Implement appropriate problem determination aids
  2. Determine message flow behavior with respect to error handling
  3. Generate user trace on message flows
  4. Cancel all outstanding deploys
  5. Resolve broker topology issues such as a UUID mismatch
  6. Generate IBM service trace for the broker, Configuration Manager, the User Name Server components and Message Brokers Toolkit components
  7. Analyze WebSphere Message Broker entries in the system log
  8. Configure the debugger to trace a problem

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