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Exam 924: IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 Migration and Support

Exam Competencies 

Exam Type: Multiple Choice

Description: Covers Portal 8.0 material as it relates to these competency areas: 

  • IBM WebSphere Portal Content
  • Maintain and Monitor
  • WebSphere Portal Integration
  • Migration and Other Concepts
  • Troubleshooting and Serviceability

IBM WebSphere Portal Content

  1. Customize IBM Web Content Manager authoring
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of personalization concepts
  3. Demonstrate use and knowledge of attribute-based administration
  4. Demonstrate working with Web Content Manager libraries
  5. Establish syndication between environments
  6. Understand how tagging and rating interacts with Web Content Manager
  7. Migrate a Web Content Manager system using content migration tool
  8. Setup a Web Content Manager solution
  9. Setup an authoring server
  10. Understand and administer the publishing personalization rules
  11. Use Author Time search
  12. Understand web content integration
  13. Understand Enterprise Content Management integration


Maintain and Monitor

  1. Create XMLAccess scripts to copy individual WebSphere Portal resources from development to integration environments
  2. Create XMLAccess scripts for deploying, updating, deleting, and performing routine maintenance on WebSphere Portal resources
  3. Demonstrate enabling Portlet PMI
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of the Member Fixer tool
  5. Demonstrate knowledge of the ReleaseBuilder process and command-line tool
  6. Export and import page hierarchy using administration portlets
  7. Identify the differences and advantages between the WebSphere Portal scripting interface and XMLAccess
  8. Identify the required ACL roles to delegate WebSphere Portal administration tasks to non-administrator WebSphere Portal users
  9. Install and update portlets using administration portlets
  10. Synchronize WebSphere Portal environments using Site Management tool
  11. Understand how to identify orphan data in WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager and what tools and processes are required to clean up or repair the data
  12. Understand how to identify the effective access a user or group has to WebSphere Portal resources
  13. Understand how to start and stop WebSphere Portal server using command line tools and using the IBM Management Console in WebSphere Application Server
  14. Understand how to utilize the WebSphere Application Server Performance Monitoring (PMI)
  15. Understand the release life-cycle for deploying changes in WebSphere Portal


WebSphere Portal Integration

  1. Understand options for backend application integration
  2. Configure mashup integration including how iWidgets are added to a page
  3. Configuring the community pages
  4. Configure WebSphere Portal for process integration
  5. Configure collaboration features
  6. Integration and use of Web analytics


Migration and Other Concepts

  1. Understand how to leverage feeds using WebSphere Portal including configuring a proxy environment for feed syndication
  2. Understand WebSphere Portal migration concepts
  3. Understand WebSphere Portal and e-forms integration
  4. Migrate core and custom WebSphere Portal resources
  5. Migrate WebSphere Portal content


Troubleshooting and Serviceability

  1. Understand conditions for which WebSphere Portal will use Server Side Aggregation
  2. Understand conditions for which WebSphere Portal will use Client Side Aggregation
  3. Describe and use tools for troubleshooting and diagnostics
  4. Understand troubleshooting of database connectivity
  5. Enable WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Application server tracing to gather diagnostic data
  6. Understand troubleshooting of WebSphere Portal cluster issues


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