IBM Assessment: IBM WebSphere Process Server V7.0, Deployment Sample Questions:

1. A highly available WebSphere Process Server clustered environment comprises of cluster1 with two members, clusterMemberA and clusterMemberB. cluster1 has been added as a member of a bus. The two cluster members host a message producer application, App1, and a message consumer application App2 which needs to consume messages produced by App1. App2 must receive messages in a sequential manner maintaining the order of message delivery. During peak load, the clusterMemberA is most active taking significant performance impact while clusterMemberB is almost idle and is only experiencing about 25% of the overall activity. Identify the steps the deployment professional should take to reconfigure the messaging infrastructure so that the load is balanced more evenly among both cluster members of cluster1.

A) Create an additional messaging engine on cluster1 so that each cluster member hosts an active messaging engine for an even load distribution.
B) Create a secondary two member cluster cluster2 with messaging only capabilities. Add cluster2 as a bus member and detach the cluster1 from the bus.
C) Create another server with messaging only capabilities. Add this server as a bus member and detach the cluster1 from the bus.
D) Create a secondary two member cluster cluster2 with messaging only capabilities. Add cluster2 as a bus member and create an additional active message engine on cluster2 and detach cluster1 from the bus .

2. A deployment professional needs to configure the Business Process Choreographer (BPC) and all necessary resources. Which of the following scripts would be used to accomplish the task?

A) BPMCreateTargetProfile.sh
B) bpeconfig.jacl
C) bpcadmin.jy
D) configureBPsh

3. A business integration application makes use of a non-interruptible business process which is invoked synchronously to update a backend SAP application and a data warehouse deployed on the DB2 database. Under peak loads, the business process performs poorly. The deployment professional is approached to fine tune the resources for better performance. What should be the appropriate tuning settings?

A) Increase the sib.msgstore.discardableDataBufferSize default value to hold the data for which the quality of service attribute is best effort non-persistent of the business process.
B) Replace the DB2 database data store for the business process with file store.
C) Increase the number of connections in the connection pool of the JDBC data source to connect to DB2 database.
D) Increase the Java heap size but keep it low enough to avoid heap swapping.
E) Reduce the number of transaction boundaries within the business process and try to use parallel execution paths.

4. A deployment professional has been asked to review the backup plan of a WebSphere Process Server (WPS) Network Deployment installation with a standard Remote Messaging and Remote Support two node cell. The deployment professional has noticed that the databases are backed up on a different cycle and separate from the transaction logs. Predict the consequences during a database recovery from backup.

A) WPS transaction logs will have to be manually edited to remove transaction that occurred after the backup.
B) WPS must be restarted in recovery mode to automatically synchronize database and transaction logs.
C) WPS will automatically synchronize database and transaction logs during normal startup.
D) WPS may not start up normally because the database and transaction logs backup are not synchronized.

5. A telecommunications company is running on WebSphere Process Server 6.2 and intends to upgrade to WebSphere Process Server V7.0. In WebSphere Process Server 6.2, the backend systems are SAP applications and the corresponding WebSphere adapters are installed. What are the key sequential steps that the deployment professional needs to take to upgrade to WebSphere Process Server V7.0?

A) Install Migration Target -> Backup Source -> Apply interim patch on SAP Adapters -> Migrate using profile migration utility
B) Create Migration Target -> Augment target profiles with WESB and Process Server -> Migrate using BPM command line utility
C) Create Target profiles -> Backup source profile -> Migrate using Profile Management tool -> Migrate database manually
D) Create target profiles with all components -> Uninstall WebSphere Adapter for SAP applications from the 6.2 environment -> Use BPM profile migration command line utility

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