Test LOT-921: IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 Migration and Support

Exam 921: IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 Migration and Support

Exam Competencies 

Exam Type: Multiple Choice

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

• Integrating Your Business
• Maintain and Monitor
• Migration and Other Concepts
• Portal Content
• Troubleshooting and Serviceability

Integrating Your Business

1. Configure collaboration features (common mail, instant messaging and so on)
   1. Configure Lotus Sametime presence awareness+A36
   2. Configure single sign-on with Lotus Domino
   3. Integrate with Lotus Domino, Lotus Connections, and Lotus Quickr
   4. Plan for collaborative servers and portlets
2. Configure mashup integration
   1. Understand how i-widgets are added to a page
3. Configure WebSphere Portal for process integration
   1. Configure virtual portals for process integration
   2. Configure WebSphere process Server integration
   3. Customize portal process integration
4. Understand options for back-end application integration (Web Application Integrator, Unified task listportlet, for example)

Maintain and Monitor

1. Create XMLAccess scripts for deploying, updating, deleting, and performing routine maintenance on portal resources
2. Create XMLAccess scripts to copy individual portal resources from development to integration environments
3. Debug errors in XMLAccess scripts when importing between environments
4. Demonstrate enabling portlet PMI
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the Member Fixer tool
6. Demonstrate knowledge of the ReleaseBuilder process and command-line tool
7. Describe the purpose of log files created during installation, maintenance, and operation of the portal
8. Export and import page hierarchy using Administration portlets
9. Identify the differences and advantages between the portal scripting interface and XMLAccess
10. Identify the function of elements in the XMLAccess script XML Schema
11. Identify the required ACL roles to delegate portal administration tasks to nonadministrator portal users
12. Install and update portlets using Administration portlets
13. Synchronize portal environments using site management
14. Understand how to identify orphan data in the portal and web content, and what tools and processes are required to clean up or repair the data
15. Understand how to identify the effective access a user or group has to portal resources
16. Understand how to start and stop portal server using command-line tools and using the WebSphere Application Server Integrated Solutions Console
17. Understand how to utilize the WebSphere Application Server performance monitor interface (PMI)
18. Understand the portal scripting interface and its relationship to the WebSphere Application Server scripting interface
19. Understand the purpose, functions, and requirements for the site management
20. Understand the release life cycle for deploying changes between portals
21. Utilize the portal scripting interface to create pages, add portlets, set security, and manage portal resources

Migration and Other Concepts

1. Migrate core and custom portal resources
   1. Understand improvements to the migration process
2. Migrate portal content
3. Search the Business Solutions catalog
4. Understand how to use feeds with WebSphere Portal
   1. Configure a proxy environment for feed syndication
5. Understand WebSphere Portal migration concepts

Portal Content

1. Customize web content authoring (configure the authoring portlet)
2. Demonstrate knowledge of personalization concepts
3. Demonstrate use and knowledge of attribute-based administration
4. Demonstrate working with web content libraries (import/export, creating, and versioning)
5. Establish syndication between environments (demonstrate knowledge of syndication strategies)
6. Migrate a web content system using content migration tool
7. Set up a portal Web Content Management solution
8. Set up an authoring server
9. Understand and administer the publishing personalization rules
10. Understand Authortime search
11. Understand Enterprise Content Management integration (FileNet, Quickr, r3rd)
12. Understand tagging and rating
13. Understand Web content integration (WCI)

Troubleshooting and Serviceability

1. Demonstrate knowledge of trace strings and trace enablers
2. Demonstrate the use of IBM Support Assistant to gather diagnostic data
3. Describe and use tools for troubleshooting and diagnostics
4. Enable portal and WebSphere Application Server tracing to gather diagnostic data
5. Understand conditions for which WebSphere Portal uses client-side aggregation
6. Understand conditions for which WebSphere Portal uses server-side aggregation
7. Understand troubleshooting of database connectivity
8. Understand troubleshooting of installation issues
9. Understand troubleshooting of portal cluster issues