Building Business: IBM’s Service-Oriented Architecture Certificat

  By Jeff Mitchell, Hamid Karbasi and Helene Untch —

Test 252: IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v6.0 Core Administration or Test 253: IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v6.1 Core Administration

• Test 664: SOA Fundamentals
  
• Test 093: IBM WebSphere Process Server 6.0 System Administration
  

Test 252 is designed to measure skills in the following areas:

• Architecture: 11 percent
  
• Installation/configuration of application server: 13 percent
  
• Application assembly and deployment and server resource configuration: 11 percent
  
• Security: 11 percent
  
• Workload management/scalability: 13 percent
  
• Maintenance and performance tuning: 19 percent
  
• Problem-determination applications: 15 percent
  
• Systems administration tasks (covers one time administrative tasks): 7 percent
  

Test 253 is designed to measure skills in the following areas:

• Architecture: 17 percent
• Installation/configuration of application server: 13 percent
  
• Application assembly and deployment: 17 percent
  
• WebSphere security: 11 percent
  
• Workload management/scalability: 11 percent
  
• Maintenance and performance tuning: 18 percent
  
• Problem determination: 13 percent

Test 664 is designed to measure skills outlined above.

Test 093 is designed to measure the skills in the following areas:

• Architecture: 14 percent
  
• Installation/configuration of process server: 26 percent
  
• Application deployment and server resource
  configuration: 16 percent
  
• Security: 12 percent
  
• Maintenance and performance tuning: 10 percent
  
• Problem-determination applications: 22 percent
  

Other information about the professional certification program from IBM is available at www.ibm.com/certify.

Jeff Mitchell and Hamid Karbasi are curriculum architects for WebSphere Education. Helene Untch is a certification program manager for WebSphere, SOA and XML. They can be reached at editor@certmag.com.