IBM Specialist Certifications

The IBM Qualification System will guide in resting the foundation for your personal voyage to become a world-class source to your clients, coworkers and company, by offering you with the appropriate abilities and qualification required to be successful.

IBM Specialist Qualification is both a voyage and a location. It's a business remedy, a way for experienced IT experts to show their skills to the community. It validates your abilities and shows your skills in the newest IBM technological innovation and alternatives.

The certification prerequisites are hard, but it's not a rocket science, either. It's a precise procedure that differentiates you from everyone else.

The objective of IBM Professional Certification is to:

• Provide an efficient, legitimate and reasonable technique of evaluating abilities and knowledge.
• Provide IBM a technique of building and verifying the abilities of individuals and companies.
• Develop a devoted community of highly trained qualified professionals who suggest, sell, service, support and/or use IBM products and services.

IBM Specialist Certification Exams:

There are 54 IBM Specialist exams, some important exams are:

• Test 000-005: IBM Maximo Asset Management V7.1 Solution Design
• Test 000-053: Rational Team Concert V3
• Test 000-142: XML 1.1 and Related Technologies
• Test 000-163: Infrastructure Sales Leader V1
• Test 000-220: IBM Sterling Connect: Direct, Administration
• Test 000-552: IBM InfoSphere Optim for Distributed Systems - V7.3.1
• Test LOT-917: Administering IBM Connections 3.0
• Test SPS-200: IBMSPSSMPRO: IBM SPSS Modeler Professional
• Test 000-M45: IBM Information Management DB2 Technical Mastery v2
• Test M43: IBM Lotus Same time Unified Telephony Intermediate Technical Sales Mastery Test v1

Brief detail of some Mastery exams:

Test SPS-200: IBMSPSSMPRO: IBM SPSS Modeler Professional

55 questions are asked in this test from the candidates and time allowed is 90 minutes. 88% is the required score to qualify this test.

Important areas to be focused on for clearing this test are:

• Section 1 - Business Understanding (5%)
• Section 2 - Data Understanding (25%)
• Section 3 - Data Preparation (35%)
• Section 4 - Modeling (20%)
• Section 5 - Evaluation of Results (10%)
• Section 6 - Deployment of Results (5%)

Test LOT-917: Administering IBM Connections 3.0

65 multiple choice questions are asked in this test from the candidates and time allowed is 90 minutes. 73% is the required score to qualify this test.

This test covers IBM Lotus Web Content Management material as it relates to these competency areas:

·         Apply Security

·         Customize and Integrate

·         Install and Configure

·         Manage and Maintain

Test M43: IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony Intermediate Technical Sales Mastery Test v1

Following is the list of important content areas for this test:

• Section 1 - SUT Intermediate Level Workshop (Videos) (27%)
• Section 2 - SUT Intermediate Level Workshop (Presentations) (44%)
• Section 3 - SUT Intermediate Level Workshop (Lab Handouts) (15%)
• Section 4 - SUT Intermediate Level Workshop (Scenarios) (14%)

Test 000-M45: IBM Information Management DB2 Technical Mastery v2

This test consists of 2 sections:
Section 1 - Getting started with DB2 (56%)

• What is New in DB2 9.7
• Getting started with DB2 installation
• DB2 Installation
• Basic Administration
• DB2 administration and development tools

Section 2 - DB2 Express and fundamental concepts and tools (44%)

• DB2 Express and DB2 Express-C
• Benefits of DB2 Express
• DB2 fundamental concepts and tools
• DB2 security
• Data movement utilities
• Basic Performance tuning