Test LOT-911: IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 Solution Development

Exam 911: IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 Solution Development

Exam Competencies

Exam Type: Multiple Choice

Description: Covers Portal 8 material as it relates to these competency areas: 

• Architecting an IBM WebSphere Portal solution
• Portlet development
• Additional development concepts
• Portal services and API-s
• Testing and debugging of portlets
• iWidget development
• Theme Development

Architecting an IBM WebSphere Portal solution

1. Demonstrate knowledge of WebSphere Portal platform features
2. Identifying scope for custom portlets
3. Know the authentication levels provided by WebSphere Portal
4. Understand how WebSphere Portal features and portlets use user identity to personalize
5. Understand patterns and methods for application integration with WebSphere Portal
6. Use out-of-the-box portlets
7. Demonstrate knowledge of the iWidget lifecycle
8. Understand the use cases for implementing integration with iWidgets versus portlets
9. Demonstrate knowledge of theme development lifecycle
10. Demonstrate knowledge of mobile theme development lifecycle

Portlet developmen

1. Create cooperative portlets using live text, Click-2-Action, and event broker
2. Demonstrate knowledge of core Java portlet objects in the JSR 286 spec
3. Demonstrate the differences between events, render parameters, public render parameters, and scoped attributes
4. Describe the portlet life cycle for JSR 286
5. Effectively use JSPs to render portlet markup
6. Have knowledge of WSRP for JSR-286 portlets
7. Identify supported portlet modes and custom portlet modes
8. Implement portlet actions and events with Java annotations
9. Understand portlet descriptor files for each portlet type and utilize WebSphere Portal Extend features
10. Use the portlet client model
11. Use Ajax to update state and trigger actions with JSR 286 portlets
12. Utilize client profile information (JSR 188)
13. Utilize standard portlet cascading style-sheet classes

Additional development concepts

1. Developing personalization resources
2. Search the Business Solutions catalog
3. Using and extending the Credential Vault
4. Using Web Content Manager API's
5. Writing personalization and visibility rules

Portal services and API's

1. Creating a custom portlet service
2. Use Remember Me API to provide anonymous portlet content personalization
3. Understand key Service Programming (SPI) and Application Programming Interfaces (API)
   1. Property Broker SPI
   2. Login Service SPI
   3. Portal User Management SPI (PUMA)
   4. Controller SPI
   5. Portal Access Control SPI
   6. Collaborative Services API
4. Develop login, logout, and session validation filters

Testing and debugging of portlets

1. Effective use of logging
2. Troubleshoot portlet applications

iWidget development

1. Demonstrate understanding of iWidget 2.1 specification concepts
2. Understand the purpose of objects like iContext, iDescriptor, iScope, constants, iEvents , and item types
3. Explain how iWidget modes are leveraged in WebSphere Portal
4. Understand the mechanisms for sharing data and signaling events between iWidgets and Portlets

Theme Development

1. Understand theme optimization framework including basic artifacts such as pages and profiles
2. Understand usage of deferred and non-deferred modules
3. Demonstrate knowledge of customizing a theme based on modular theme
4. Demonstrate knowledge of creating and modify dynamic content spots
5. Understand the artifacts and process needed to customize skins (CSS, entry points, cache expiration)
6. Demonstrate the steps for contributing new layouts
7. Demonstrate basic understanding of menu framework
8. Demonstrate understanding of theme registration and deployment
9. Demonstrate knowledge of registering and administering modules
10. Understand how to create modules and use theme contribution types