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| sanku |
 Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 3:06 am Post subject: IBM Websphere MQ Quetions/Answers |
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Can any body help me getting interview question/answers on IBM Websphere MQ5?
I have little bit knowladge in MQSeries.
I have written some java application on it.
Going to sit before interview on IBM Webphere MQ.
Please let me know. |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 3:36 am Post subject: |
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I hope the people you are interviewing with don't read this forum.
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| bduncan |
| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Sanku,
I've answered questions like this before, you can probably use the search tool and search on "interview" to find them.
Basically, if the interviewer is good, he's not going to follow some scripted list of questions.
Most of the MQ-related interviews I've been on involved me standing up and drawing a bunch of diagrams on a white board and explaining the concepts to the interviewers. And as I'm drawing the flow of a message in a three-tiered system they might jump in with "what about transactional integrity?" "what happens if that server goes down?" "how does the reply message get back to the particular server that sent the request message?" and then I'll end up drawing and explaining those concepts as well.
Honestly, I doubt you'll be able to "wing it" on an MQ interview. You'll need to understand the concepts behind everything, not just be able to write a java program that can put/get a message.
I'm not trying to discourage you, I'm just trying to recommend that you spend a lot of time reading the manuals and browsing this site before you try taking an interview.
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| bduncan wrote: |
| You'll need to understand the concepts behind everything, not just be able to write a java program that can put/get a message. |
If I were looking to hire someone to write java programs using MQSeries - that's about all I'd care about.
That, and that they showed enough sense to follow established guidelines and procedures or read the manuals when there weren't guidelines to follow.
Now, if I were looking to hire an MQ Admin, yeah. Everything you said and more.
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| bduncan |
| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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If I were looking to hire someone to write java programs using MQSeries - that's about all I'd care about.
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Perhaps I'm biased but I worked in an environment where there were several engineers writing applications to interact with our queue managers, but had little understanding how MQSeries worked. Unfortunately I had to spend quite a bit of time debugging their programs when they would do things like start a unit of work and not commit it, try to match against correlation id but pass in the message id, put a group of messages but never send a LAST_MSG_IN_GROUP message, etc...
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 3:13 am Post subject: |
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That's why I said "showed enough sense to follow established guidelines and procedures or read the manuals when there weren't guidelines to follow"... 
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| bduncan |
| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Expect people to think for themselves? Really???
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