Websphere Application Server Network Deployment V8.5 and Liberty Profile Training Certification Course Online

Architecture

• Identify the components and services in a WebSphere® Application Server and describe how they are related or interact
• Recommend the appropriate WebSphere® Application Server topology (e.g., flexible management, mixed platform topology, network deployment cells)
• Apply appropriate design considerations when architecting topologies to achieve stability, redundancy, and fault tolerance
• Demonstrate an understanding of how client requests traverse various WebSphere® Application Server topologies
• Demonstrate an understanding of the administration flow for a network deployment cell

Installation, Configuration and Maintenance

• Demonstrate an understanding of the IBM® Installation Manager and its role in installing, configuring, and maintaining WebSphere® application servers and components both locally and remotely
• Perform pre-installation verification and troubleshoot the installation (e.g., identify and analyze log files, Installation Verification Tool (IVT))
• Illustrate the silent installation process for the WebSphere Application Server software and fix pack installations
• Create and manage profiles
• Create and manage nodes in a WebSphere® topology (e.g., flexible management, network deployment cell)
• Backup and restore a configuration
• Demonstrate understanding of administrative task required to take an application deployed to the Liberty profile and deploy it on a WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment instance

Application Management (Assembly, Deployment and Configuration)

• Explain the structure of enterprise application
• Deploy enterprise applications to a WebSphere® Application Server environment both manually and using scripts
• Describe the differences between enterprise applications and business level applications (OSGi, SCA)
• Configure application resources (e.g., data sources, JNDI, class paths, J2C providers) as required by an enterprise application
• Use the IBM® Assembly and Deploy Tools (IADT) or WebSphere® Developer Tools (WDT) to examine and manipulate application EAR files
• Demonstrate an understanding of the WebSphere® batch components and deploy batch applications

Administrative Tools

• Illustrate the usage of the IBM® Solution Console (ISC) and its various tools (e.g., command assistance, runtime messages)
• Use the standard set of command line administrative tools (wsadmin, profile management, plug-in generation, etc)
• Demonstrate an understanding of the capabilities of the Job Manager tooling
• Use scripting to perform administrative tasks (e.g. scripting libraries, automation, ws_ant, wsadmin)
• Write, test, and debug scripts by using IBM® Assembly and Deploy Tools (IADT), Rational Application Developer or Eclipse
• Configure a WebSphere® Application Server runtime using properties files
• Demonstrate an understanding of WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools plug-in

Security

• Configure user repositories (e.g., federated, standalone LDAP, local OS)
• Configure SSL for clients and servers (e.g., create certificates, populate trust stores, and modify certificate expiration)
• Enable security auditing and examine audit data output
• Discuss the implications of resource security settings
• Implement multiple security domains
• Apply administrative security roles
• Configure LTPA and SSO
• Harden WebSphere® Application Server security

Clustering and Workload Management

• Configure the HTTP server and the WebSphere® Application Server plug-in
• Configure clusters in a workload management topology
• Configure distributed session management for high availability and failover scenarios
• Configure messaging engine policies for clustered service integration bus (SIBus) members
• Configure high availability using core groups

Intelligent Management and Resiliency

• Explain the dynamic cluster elasticity feature and its possible configurations and variations and the usage scenarios
• Create and configure On Demand Routers (ODR) 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
• Demonstrate the resiliency features of messaging

Performance Monitoring and Tuning

• Use the Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV) to monitor the WebSphere Application Server runtime
• Use the Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV) Advisor and the Diagnostic Advisor to obtain advice on performance issues
• Identify the configuration settings (e.g., JVM settings, connection pools, thread pools) that affect WebSphere Application Server performance
• Use appropriate tools to tune, test and analyze performance parameters
• Use the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) metrics and poll MBeans for performance data
• Configure and monitor the WebSphere Application Server caching mechanisms

Problem Determination

• Enable high performance extensible logging (HPEL) and view HPEL data
• Enable Cross Component Trace (XCT) and view trace data in XCT Log Viewer
• Use administrative tools to trigger and analyze heap dumps, javacore dumps, and verbose Garbage Collection (GC)
• Configure diagnostic tracing
• Use the IBM® Support Assistant to analyze diagnostic data or submit data to IBM® Support
• Configure, review and analyze logs (e.g., First Failure Data Capture (FFDC), system logs, native logs) via the IBM® Solution Console (ISC) and command line tools

Candidates with the following knowledge and skills are the ideal audience for this course: