IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 Solution Development Sample Questions:

1. In the case of a processAction or serveResource call, what is the expected behavior if an action or resource parameter has the same name as a public render parameter?

A) The public render parameter is appended with a unique identifier to distinguish it from the action/resource parameter.
B) The public render parameter values must be the last entries in the parameter value array.
C) The public render parameter is ignored.
D) The public render parameter takes precedence and overwrites the value of the action/resource parameter.

2. Bill is developing a mail portlet. One of the requirements of the mail portlet is that it should prompt the user for a user name and password on the first access, then store that information in the credential vault. After that, the mail portlet should read the credential from the credential vault and use it for logging in to the external application. Which type of credential slot should Bill use?

A) System slot
B) Shared user slot
C) Portlet private slot
D) Administrative slot

3. Tyson is the sole IBM WebSphere Portal administrator in his company. He has developed a portlet that uses content spots to bind certain portlet markup to users specific to a certain group accessing the portlet itself. What bindings can Tyson create to associate the users with the content spots to be shown?

A) He can store a personalization rule in the theme that creates a new version of the portlet for each user group automatically on first access,using the PortletClientModel and leveraging the PUMA UserGroup object
B) Portlets cannot include dynamic content spots.
C) He can use Personalization Rules based on user and group information, hiding and showing the content spots per each grouping as desired.
D) He can use the ContentPresentationModel to hide and show content spots based on any parameter included in the ContentPresentationResource and change the content spot based on the user's group

4. If Lola needs to create a resource collection, which of the following options must she define?

A) An instance of either of the following:
-com.ibm.websphere.resources.ResourceCollectionImpl
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com.ibm.websphere.resources.ResourceManager
B) An instance of one of the following:
-com.ibm.websphere.personalization.resources.Resource
-com.ibm.websphere.personalization.resources.ResourceManager3
-com.ibm.websphere.personalization.resources.ResourceDomain3
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com.ibm.websphere.personalization.resources.AuthIDTranslator
C) An instance of either of the following:
-com.ibm.websphere.personalization.ResourceCollectionImpl
-com.ibm.websphere.resources.ResourceManager
D) An instance of the following:
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com.ibm.websphere.personalization.ResourceCollection

5. The following code sample is an excerpt from an implementation of a custom ExplicitLoginFilter.

Evan needs to implement custom logic to check whether the user needs to accept an updated user agreement. Which one of the following lines of code allows the user to be sent the friendly IBM WebSphere Portal URL 'acceptAgreement,' if the checkUser method returns true?

A) RequestDispatcher rd = req.getRequestDispatcher("/wps/myportal/acceptAgreement"); rd.include(req, resp);
B) portalLoginContext.setRedirectURL("/wps/myportal/acceptAgreement");
C) RequestDispatcher rd = req.getRequestDispatcher("/wps/myportal/acceptAgreement"); rd.forward(req, resp);
D) resp.sendRedirect("/wps/myportal/acceptAgreement");

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