Test LOT-920: IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 Deployment and Administration

Exam 920: IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 Deployment and Administration

Exam Competencies 

Exam Type: Multiple Choice

Description: Covers Portal 7.0 material as it relates to these competency areas: 

• Architecting a portal solution
• Customization and Administration
• Installation and Configuration
• Security

Architecting a portal solution

1. Architect a content and portal solution
2. Describe branding capabilities
3. Design a staging architecture
4. Design end-to-end portal architecture
5. Plan and implement security in a cluster
6. Plan multiple virtual portals
7. Plan security and authentication concepts
   1. Including when to use, the benefits of using step-up authentication and remember me cookie
8. Plan Web Content Management implementation
9. Planning WebSphere Portal migration
10. Understand business process integration concepts
11. Understand cross-cell deployment scenarios
12. Understand dynamic clustering
13. Understand horizontal and vertical clustering
14. Understand management implications of setting up wikis and blogs
15. Understand management implications of tagging and rating
16. Understand new installation and topology options
    1. Multiple profiles
    2. Portal farms
    3. Portal in the cloud environment
    4. VMware support
17. Understand planning for multiple clusters and database considerations
18. Understand the differences between and advantages of client-side aggregation (CSA) and server-side aggregation (SSA)
19. Understand virtual portals
20. Understanding the standard portlet life cycle

Customization and Administration

1. Administer parallel portlet rendering
2. Administer tagging and rating
3. Administer virtual portals
4. Apply portlet wiring concepts
5. Configure and administer virtual portals
6. Configure cooperative portlets
7. Configure page layouts
8. Configure the locking mechanism
9. Configure web services for remote portlets (WSRP)
10. Copy portlets and portlet applications
11. Create and configure portal and web content search collections
12. Customize pages and the use of portlet wiring
13. Customize Web 2.0 themes using the theme customizer
14. Implement custom unique names
15. Implement skins and themes
16. Implement URL mapping
17. Manage and configure composite applications
    1. Apply template concepts
18. Manage portal resources with policies
19. Manage portlets in a cluster
20. Manage replication in a cluster
21. Manage the access control of users and groups
22. Modify portal URLs
23. Understand how to configure a remote search service for portals
24. Understand portal site management
25. Using portal search
26. Utilize collaborative portal components
27. Utilize the Manage Search portlet to administer portal search
28. Utilize the Portal Site Management portlet
29. Utilize the Portal Site wizard
30. Working with WebDAV clients

Installation and Configuration

1. Add nodes to a cluster and dynamic clusters
2. Configure an Ajax proxy
3. Configure WebSphere Application Server and portal caching
4. Create a WebSphere Network Deployment dynamic cluster
5. Implement horizontal and vertical clustering
6. Implement portals using the portal site wizard
7. Install and set up a clustered production environment
8. Migrate WebSphere Portal and customized resources
9. Perform a silent installation from a response file
10. Plan for the personalization server
11. Plan your installation
12. Set up and configure options for wikis and blogs
13. Set up portal farms
14. Understand ConfigEngine commands
15. Understand improvements to the installation wizard and when to use the wizard instead of commands
16. Understand installation components
17. Understand portal coexistence (mixed versions) and installation options
18. Understand portal installation components
19. Understand portal tuning concepts
20. Understand the use of the portal property files
21. Understand when and how to configure Websphere Portal light mode
22. Understand where theme files are located after installation
23. Utilize command-line tools
24. Utilize configuration templates
25. Utilize installation wizards for post configuration
26. Utilize multiple LDAP realms
27. Work with application templates to assemble composite applications

Security

1. Administer application roles
2. Administer portal roles and authorization
   1. Administer page and portlet security
3. Configure login, logout, and session filters
4. Create a look-aside user registry and add attributes
5. Deploying portlets in a secure environment
6. Enable impersonation
7. Enable SSL between components
8. Enable SSO with WebSphere Portal and Lotus Domino
9. Establish and administer single sign-on realms
10. Establish LDAP and federated authentication mode
11. Externalize resource security
12. Integrate external security managers
13. Manage portal search security
14. Manage user registries
15. Modify default passwords for WebSphere Portal
16. Secure your WSRP producer
17. Troubleshoot portal security
18. Understand LTPA and cookies
19. Understand multiple realms
20. Use the configuration wizard