- 1. Technical Overview
- 2. Liberty Profile administration skills
- 3. Core4 administration skills
- 4. Problem determination skills
- 5. Scripting and automation skills
- 6. Websphere Application Server performance tuning skills
- 7. Intelligent Management Configuration Skills
- 8. WebSphere Batch Application Processing Skills
- 9. Skills with webSphere eXtreme Scale and DataPower XC10 appliance
1. Technical Overview
- Overview of WebSphere Application Server
- WebSphere Application Server packaging
- WebSphere Application Server profiles
- WebSphere Application Server full profile concepts
- Liberty profile concepts
- Development and testing of applications
- Integration with other products
- Summary of programming support
- Summary of capabilitiesc
2. Liberty Profile administration skills
- Overview of the Liberty profile for administrators
- Installing and updating the Liberty profile
- Working with Liberty profile servers
- Accessing databases
- Runtime scenarios
- Messaging applications
- Monitoring the Liberty profile server environment
- Problem determination tools
- Integration with WebSphere eXtreme Scale
3. Core4 administration skills
- Explain how WebSphere Application Server relates to the WebSphere family of products
- Describe the architectural concepts related to WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5
- Install and configure IBM Installation Manager (IIM)
- Install and configure WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server (IHS)
- Assemble and install server-side Java enterprise applications
- Use WebSphere Application Server administrative tools to configure and manage enterprise applications
- Configure security for server-side application resources
- Use log files to troubleshoot problems
- Describe the Intelligent Management Pack
- Describe WebSphere Batch features
- Describe the Liberty profile
- Install and configure the Liberty profile
- Use the job manager to administer Liberty serverse
4. Problem determination skills
- Apply problem determination techniques and analyses
- Use problem determination tools
- Use problem determination tools and analysis techniques to identify problems
- Identify common problems
- Use IBM Support Assistant
- Communicate effectively with IBM support teamsmical Overview
5. Scripting and automation skills
- Describe the support in WebSphere Application Server for scripting and automation
- Use Jython and the IBM Assembly and Deploy Tools (IADT) to develop automated scripts
- Identify the administrative objects and programming APIs needed for administrative scripting
- Use the wsadmin tool to prototype and run scripts
- Write scripts to automate common WebSphere Application Server administration tasks
- Describe the use of Ant to automate tasks
- Use Jython scripting to submit jobs to the job manager
6. Websphere Application Server performance tuning skills
- Apply performance tuning methods to WebSphere Application Servers
- Perform load testing using the Apache JMeter
- Monitor application server performance using WebSphere and the IBM Support Assistant (ISA)
- Monitor and tune the JVM for optimum throughput and response time
- Monitor and tune connection pools for optimum performance
- Implement best practices for general WebSphere runtime performance
- Use the Apache JMeter to profile and tune Java EE applications
7. Intelligent Management Configuration Skills
- Explain the concept of middleware virtualization
- Describe the architecture of the runtime components that Intelligent Management uses
- Use Intelligent Management monitoring
- Configure application server dynamic operations and explain their behavior
- Configure health management and explain its behavior
- Configure application edition management and explain its behavior
- Explain the behavior of on demand router dynamic clusters
- Use the features of centralized log management
- Configure a highly available deployment manager and explain its behavior
- Make some of the design and deployment decisions that are associated with
- Intelligent Management
8. WebSphere Batch Application Processing Skills
- Explain WebSphere Batch and batch environment
- Use JVM launcher
- Explain Java batch complexity
- Use batch programming model
- Use Job Control Language - xJCL
- Describe parallel batch features
- Describe configurable transaction model
- Schedule a batch job
- Integrate with external job scheduler
9. Skills with webSphere eXtreme Scale and DataPower XC10 appliance
- Introduction to WebSphere eXtreme Scale and DataPower XC10 appliance
- Comparing the XC10 with WebSphere eXtreme Scale
- Architecture and topologies
- Application scenarios
- Configuring WebSphere DataPower XC10
- Developing with WebSphere eXtreme Scale
- Deployment scenarios
- Extended HTTP session management with WebSphere eXtreme Scale
- Basic administration