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| mgrabinski |
 Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 2:21 am Post subject: exam 296 |
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Joined: 16 Oct 2001
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Location: Katowice, Poland
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Hi,
I've just passed the 296 MQ Design exam. It was much harder than the 294 Administrative exam. Almost all questions required careful reading and thinking. Sometimes I had to try to guess what the author had had in midn.
In 294 I needed just one hour to answer all 71 questions and revise them, here 90 minutes for 62 questions were barely enough.
I didn't prepare for this exam - the 294 which I passed in the same session was more important to me. I just wanted to try 
The onlu preparation I did was to pass 3 times the pre-assesment test (just to get free vouchers
I've had mainly administrative experience, but on several occasions I advised anylists and programmers. That was a big help. 296 doesn't ask about specific commands, it asks about concepts.
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| Keka |
| Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 6:39 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 28 Dec 2002
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Congrats ..I have been thinking of giving MQ Solutions expert.. Is it same as that??
Can you tell me how to prepare for the exam.. Some pointers as to what I need to read and what to concentrate up on.. I have been an administrator and did some level of MQ programming using Java..
Also you were talking about free vouchers for the exam..Where did you get the free vouchers?? and How??
Thanks for all the help in advance
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| bower5932 |
| Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 27 Aug 2001
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Location: Dallas, TX, USA
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I think the free voucher program is over. At least, I didn't see it on the web-site the last time that I looked. There are currently 3 old MQ certifications:
095: IBM Certified Specialist - MQSeries
096: IBM Certified Solutions Expert - MQSeries
097: IBM Certified Developer - MQSeries
There are 2 new ones:
294: IBM Certified Systems Administrator - WMQ V5.3
296: IBM Certified Solutions Designer - WMQ V5.3
294 compares to 095. 296 compares to 096. I would guess that there is another test coming out to upgrade the 097. As far as what to study, there are resources listed on the certification site:
http://www-1.ibm.com/certify/index.shtml
You can search by test number. |
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| vennela |
| Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 10:34 am Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 11 Aug 2002
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Location: Hyderabad, India
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The free program is no longer there. I have told a few people about the free vouchers and they are making phone cal1s saying that they haven't received the free vouchers yet. I gave them Ron's e-mail address.  |
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| bower5932 |
| Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 8:22 am Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 27 Aug 2001
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I just checked out:
http://www-1.ibm.com/certify/news/20030409b.shtml
which is a link from the 294 test. It indicates that the first 100 people that take and pass the sample will get the free voucher. This probably explains why other people (greater than 100) aren't getting the vouchers. |
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| mgrabinski |
| Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Hi Keka,
You asked how to prepare to the 296 exam. As I wrote earlier, I didn't prepare specifically for this exam. I was preparing for the 294 exam and passed 296 'by the way'. I consider the 296 exam to be pretty difficult, although I passed it with a safe margin (I had 77% and 62% were required to pass).
I've been an MQ administrator for over 3 years. I've worked mainly with OS/390 (and later z/OS) but I had also some experince with Win and Unixes (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX). What realy helped me to pass the 296 exam, was the fact that many times I helped our analyts to figure out the best MQ configuration for a given project. I also tought MQ stuff to my collaegues. They sometimes had very complex questions. Answering such questions improved my own understanding of MQSeries
So it is not easy to give a clear answer to your question. I cannot simply say "read those manuals, visit that link etc." What realy counts is your experience, not manuals. My prefered way of learning is "first do, then read". Of course, one can argue with such 'methodology', but I found it most suitable for me.
The 294 exam is easier for that matter. Here I can advise you to read "Intercommunication", "Security" and "MQSC Commands" (and "Quick Beginnings" for each platform), but again, what is more important is your experience.
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| Gopal |
| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 5:07 am Post subject: 296 Questions |
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| Marcin, can u provide the actual questions that you came across in the 296 test please? It would be a great help for us. I'm mainly concentrating on the questions now after going thro those pdfs. |
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| mgrabinski |
| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately I cannot recollect any.. It was two months ago..
Have you seen the sample test at IBM's ICE site?
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| GMcCarthy |
| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 6:52 am Post subject: |
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Location: Melville NY
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Can someone help...
I barely passed the practice exam for 296. I get totally confused when it comes to pub/sub and SAP. Anyway, here is a question on the exam. Did I get it right?? I answered C, D and E
In a Publish/Subscribe environment, which of the following are TRUE?
A. A separate queue must be specified for each subscriber and each topic.
B. A publication will always be lost if there are no subscribers to it at the time of publication.
C. The last publication on a topic can be retained to be passed to new subscribers as they sign up.
D. Subscribers to the same topics can share a queue.
E. A subscriber can choose to receive subscriptions in a non-shared queue.
F. All subscribers not online at the time of publication will miss the message.
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| bower5932 |
| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
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I keep seeing requests for actual questions in the appends. I thought that one of the things that you (implicitly) signed when taking the test was a statement that you wouldn't pass around the questions.
As far as the actual sample question above:
In a Publish/Subscribe environment, which of the following are TRUE?
A. A separate queue must be specified for each subscriber and each topic.
FALSE - subscribers can share queues
B. A publication will always be lost if there are no subscribers to it at the time of publication.
FALSE - retained publications support this
C. The last publication on a topic can be retained to be passed to new subscribers as they sign up.
TRUE - this is retained publications
D. Subscribers to the same topics can share a queue.
TRUE - queues can be shared
E. A subscriber can choose to receive subscriptions in a non-shared queue.
TRUE - subscribers pick between shared queue and non-shared queue
F. All subscribers not online at the time of publication will miss the message.
FALSE - durable subscribers keep publications that show up while they are away |
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