C9510-418 Exam Information and Guideline
IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V9.0 Core Administration
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Number of questions: 65
Number of questions to pass: 44
Time allowed: 90 mins
Status: Live
This intermediate level certification is intended for system administrators (system integrators, infrastructure architects, application architects and solutions architects) who perform the installation, configuration and day-to-day tasks associated with ensuring the smooth, reliable, and efficient operation of an IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment environment. This system administrator is generally self-sufficient and can perform most of the tasks involved in the role with limited assistance from peers, product documentation, and vendor support services.
Section 1: Install and update the environment 14%
Apply maintenance to the product
Demonstrate an understanding of the IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility and its role in installing, configuring, and maintaining IBM WebSphere Application Servers and components both locally and remotely.
Perform a silent installation for IBM WebSphere Application Server and fix pack installations.
Perform post-installation verification.
Troubleshoot installation problems.
Backup and restore the configuration including the use of checkpoints
Section 2: Create a high availability configuration 9%
Create multi-node topology and appropriate high availability model.
Manage nodes in an IBM WebSphere Application Server topology.
Configure and manage the HTTP server and the web server plug-in for high availability.
Configure distributed session management for high availability and failover scenarios.
Section 3: Configure security 17%
Configure user repositories.
Configure SSL for clients and servers.
Implement multiple security domains.
Apply administrative and application security roles.
Configure different authentication and authorization mechanisms.
Configure Java Enterprise, Web and Web Services Security.
Section 4: Monitor and tune the environment 9%
Use performance tooling to monitor the IBM WebSphere Application Server runtime.
Tune parameters that affect IBM WebSphere Application Server performance.
Use the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) metrics and poll MBeans for performance data.
Configure and monitor the WebSphere Application Server caching mechanisms.
Section 5: Troubleshoot post-installation problems 11%
Enable High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) and view HPEL data.
Enable Cross Component Trace (XCT) and view trace data in XCT Log Viewer.
Use tools to trigger and analyze heap dumps, javacore dumps, system core dumps and verbose Garbage Collection (GC).
Use "mustgather" documentation and/or the IBM Support Assistant to collect and analyze diagnostic data or submit data to IBM Support.
Configure, review and analyze log files for the following: First Failure Data Capture (FFDC), system logs, native logs, and trace logs.
Section 6: Administer and configure the environment 20%
Connect databases.
Create and manage Full profiles.
Configure resources.
Illustrate the usage of the Integrated Solutions Console.
Use the capabilities of the Job Manager tooling.
Configure or modify an IBM WebSphere Application Server environment by using properties files and/or the monitored directory feature.
Configure an external HTTP server for the environment.
Use the standard set of command line tools to perform administrative tasks.
Section 7: Configure Intelligent Management features 6%
Use the dynamic cluster elasticity feature.
Create and configure On Demand Routers (ODR) and the ODR plug-in and associated service policies to enable the dynamic operations.
Use health policies and actions to monitor and react to changing performance in the environment.
Configure and maintain application editions.
Section 8: Demonstrate an understanding of a multi-tier environment 6%
Identify the components and services in an IBM WebSphere Application Server configuration and describe how they are related or interact.
Demonstrate an understanding of how requests traverse various WebSphere Application Server ND topologies.
Section 9: Deploy and administer applications 8%
Perform partial updates of enterprise applications, web applications, and business level applications.
Deploy applications to an IBM WebSphere Application Server environment.