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| maha20 |
 Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:51 am Post subject: Test 294 skills - clarification |
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Hello -
I am planing to take 294 exam sometime in this month. While I was going thru the objectives for the test I encountered few skills enlisted which are not clear to me. Please clarify me the following points.
Section 2:
D. Create the necessary WMQ objects to deploy an application.
Section 3:
C. Customize the communications software to enable remote messaging
Also, does this test include questions on Application Programming concepts ? ...
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| bower5932 |
| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:38 am Post subject: |
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I believe that 2D is talking about the creation of queues, channels, etc.
I thought that test 297 is the one that covered application programming. |
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| maha20 |
| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:39 am Post subject: |
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Hello -
I don't see any objectives which specify in particular abt Application Programming .. As the test title is certification for sys admin I wonder if app. prog is covered .. Thanks
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| oz1ccg |
| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| D. Create the necessary WMQ objects to deploy an application. |
I guess there was some excebits describing what objects to installed/deployed to solve the application needs. I've seen many WMQ tests, and they can be quite difficult to read, but that's also the picture from the real world. System admin. don't speak the same language as App. developers. 
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| C. Customize the communications software to enable remote messaging |
Quite easy:
Channel-initiator, Listener, Channels, remoteq, xmitq, etc.
Just my $0.02 
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| maha20 |
| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:50 am Post subject: |
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How abt app. prog concepts ? .. are they included in the test ?? .. Pls. clarify me. Thanks.
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| maha20 wrote: |
How abt app. prog concepts ? .. are they included in the test ?? .. Pls. clarify me. Thanks.
Maha |
Not according to http://www-1.ibm.com/certify/tests/obj294.shtml
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| oz1ccg |
| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:41 am Post subject: |
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Hmm......
Section 2 - INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
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C: Create the necessary WebSphere MQ objects given a configuration
D: Create the necessary WebSphere MQ objects to deploy an application |
Well it has nothing to do with application programming itself, but certainly it has something to do with administration of the WMQ setup. I don't suppose that you give the developers auth. to create the mqobjects themselves like define: Qlocal, qremote, clusterqueues, security, etc. ??
If so you got a job to delete obsolte objects, and have a working complex. What does auditors require in a production env. ?
It's easy with one, two, thr...... but dealing with 100, 200+ queue managers you don't allow that, and it become a real job to do the administration, in the same way as DBA.
Just my point of view, and $0.02 .
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| maha20 |
| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:20 am Post subject: |
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Does it mean that the two objectives imply one and the same ?. Thanks.
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| oz1ccg |
| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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hi Maha,
You say it so.
One thing is to know the objects, another thing is to explain why messages stops where they do when dealing with remote queueing.....
Explain how triggering works in the different flavours, even the difference with shared queues using a shared vs. standard initation queue.
How to protect you system from security problems when using a DLQ handler, and a incomming msg, gets a RC=2035 and is placed in DLQ, which gets processed by the DLQ handler (auth=mqm)....... and msg is placed in the requested queue...... ?? 
I did 294 three weeks ago, and there was two questions about where a messages would stay under a given specification using 3 qmgrs. And it wasn't a easy one. Thanks to the IBM Gurus. 
We can't give you the expierence, but you have to read the books on your own, and then take the test. The easiest way is to work with MQ daily, to understand what is going on inside the Castle.
Just my $0.02
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| maha20 |
| Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| kirani |
| Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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After your preparation you can take a sample test at Prometric for $10. After completing the test you will get a scorecard. You can then see which areas you need to improve on.
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