IBM Assessment: IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0, Solution Design Sample Questions:

1. A company is using WebSphere MQ V7 publish/subscribe to publish status information about an application on the topic string ustomer/status?A company is using WebSphere MQ V7 publish/subscribe to publish status information about an application on the topic string ?ustomer/status? A new MQI application wants to subscribe to the status information, but is only interested in the information when the status is navailable? TheA new MQI application wants to subscribe to the status information, but is only interested in the information when the status is available The solution designer is evaluating ways to design the solution so that the application only receives a subscription when the status is available solution designer is evaluating ways to design the solution so that the application only receives a subscription when the status is available. The company does not mind writing additional code as long as it does not impact existing subscribers, but they do not want to change the topic. Which set of product(s)
can provide the needed publish/subscribe function using the least components?

A) WebSphere MQ V7.0 with WebSphere Message Broker
B) WebSphere MQ V7.0 with WebSphere Message Broker and the WebSphere MQ Explorer Publish/Subscribe plug-in SupportPac
C) WebSphere MQ V7.0 with the WebSphere MQ Explorer Publish/Subscribe plug-in SupportPac
D) WebSphere MQ V7.0

2. A solution designer is looking to utilize industry standard technologies but does not want to settle for the qualities of service that HTTP offers. Which of the following is not a benefit of using SOAP/WebSphere MQ over SOAP/HTTP?

A) Integration with, and reuse of, existing WebSphere MQ infrastructure
B) WebSphere MQ clustering for load balancing and enhanced reliability and availability
C) Ability to provide access to legacy applications
D) Assured delivery

3. A company has a large network of WebSphere MQ clustered queue managers that span multiple applications. When migrating such a cluster to a new version, which one of the following is a good practice?

A) Perform a staged migration, in which queue managers are migrated one at a time.
B) Stage the migration, but migrate all the queue managers on a particular operating system atthe same time.
C) At a minimum, migrate the full repositories at the same time, to avoid incompatibilities in thedefinitions that they store.
D) Migrate all the queue managers in the cluster at the same time to make sure there are noincompatibilities between versions.

4. A new WebSphere MQ application with high volume requirements is being designed to run on Solaris. The solution designer is concerned about the performance of the application. The WebSphere MQ for Solaris V7 Performance Evaluation Report SupportPac provides all but one of the following types of information to the solution designer. Which is NOT discussed in this document?

A) Evaluation of the relative cost of persistent messages vs. nonpersistent messages in different scenarios
B) Information that can be used to size the company new application Information that can be used to size the company? new application
C) Suggestions for tuning WebSphere MQ
D) Evaluation of the relative cost of one WebSphere MQ API vs. another in different scenarios

5. A solution designer is looking to implement a highly available WebSphere MQ solution. In the event of a queue manager failure, there is a requirement for several backup queue managers to get and process the messages from the primary input queue that was being processed by the failed queue manager. Considering the advances in high availability options (e.g. HACMP, WebSphere MQ clustering), which of the following deployment options is most valid?

A) z/OS, AIX, Windows
B) z/OS, AIX
C) z/OS, AIX, Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
D) z/OS

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