Test LOT-988: Administering IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5

Exam 988: Administering IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5

Exam Competencies 

Exam Type: Multiple Choice

Description:

Covers Lotus Sametime 8.5 system administration material as it relates to these competency areas: 

• Architecture
• Install and Configure 
• Manage and Maintain 
• Managing Security
• Working with Policies

Architecture

1. Planning/preparing the environment
1. Clustering Sametime servers for high availability
2. Network planning considerations
3. Planning a Lotus Sametime community server install
4. Planning a Lotus Sametime Media Manager Install
5. Planning deployment topologies
6. Planning for an LDAP Directory
7. Ports used by Lotus Sametime components
8. Supporting IPv6 addressing in a Lotus Sametime deployment


2. Understanding database concepts-preparing the database environment
3. WebSphere Application Server considerations

Install and Configure

1. Configuring and managing the Sametime Connect Client
1. Configuring Sametime Connect Client SPNEGO- Authentication
2. Configuring Sametime Connect Client\Provisioning
3. Configuring Sametime Connect Client\Secure Site Provisioning
4. Configuring Sametime Connect Client\Silent Installer


2. Configuring Directory Services
1. Configuring Directory Services\Domino Directory
2. Configuring Directory Services\LDAP Directory


3. Configuring file transfers
4. Configuring Sametime 8.5 proxy server
5. Configuring Sametime clusters
6. Configuring Sametime connectivity
7. Configuring Sametime logging
8. Configuring Sametime Media Server
9. Configuring Sametime Mobile
10. Configuring the Lotus Notes embedded Client
11. Configuring the Sametime 8.5 meeting server
1. Configuring Sametime meeting server conversion services


12. Configuring the Sametime Community server
13. Configuring the Sametime Community services multiplexer (MUX)
14. Configuring the Sametime system console
15. Configuring Tunneling
16. Configuring usage limits
17. Deploying MS Office integration features
18. Deploying Sametime across multiple domains
19. Deploying Sametime Connect via network deployment
20. Deploying Sametime Plug-ins
21. Implementing Business Cards
22. Implementing Community Services Clustering
23. Implementing SSL
24. Installing/configuring DB2
25. Understanding the capabilities of the Sametime Gateway

Manage and Maintain

1. Administering a Lotus Sametime Community Server
2. Administering a Llotus Sametime Media Manager
3. Administering a Lotus Sametime Meeting Server
4. Administering a Lotus Sametime Proxy server
5. Administering a Lotus Sametime System Console
6. Managing Anonymous Users Naming
7. Managing Recorded Meetings
8. Modifying Audio/Video Services
9. Modifying Community Services Clustering
10. Monitoring the Sametime Servers
11. Troubleshooting a Lotus Sametime Community Server
12. Troubleshooting a Lotus Sametime Connect Client
13. Troubleshooting a Lotus Sametime Media Server
14. Troubleshooting a Lotus Sametime Meeting Server
15. Troubleshooting a Lotus Sametime System Console
16. Troubleshooting Online Meetings
17. Tuning a WebSphere proxy server
18. Tuning Lotus Sametime Media Manager
19. Tuning Lotus Sametime Community Server
20. Understanding Breakout Sessions
21. Understanding Location Awareness
22. Understanding Polling in Meetings
23. Understanding Telephony in Sametime – click to call
24. Upgrading Sametime Clients
25. Utilizing the Name Conversion Utility
26. Utilizing the Sametime Administration Tool

Managing Security

1. Configuring Single Sign-on
2. Controlling user Sametime server access
3. Managing administrator access and roles
4. Managing security associated with the community server
5. Managing security associated with the Media Manager
6. Managing security associated with the meeting server
7. Modifying Sametime security
8. Understanding user policies

Working with Policies

1. Configuring the Sametime Policy Service
2. Instant messaging policies
3. Managing users with policies
1. Assigning policies to users and groups
2. Changing a user's policy's weight
3. Creating new user policies
4. Finding policies associated with a user


4. Media manager policies
5. Meeting policies
6. Upgrading to 8.5 and policies