IBM DB2 Certification

The IBM’s DB2 qualification is an international, retailer-neutral qualification for pc support technicians. It is also known as IBM Certified Database Manager, DB2 9 DBA for Linux system, UNIX & MS Windows qualifications. The IBM DB2 qualification shows your proficiency as a pc technician by calculating your abilities in places and various systems such as Linux system, UNIX and MS Windows. It shows that the IBM DB2 qualification holder is capable of performing the advanced to advanced projects related to database style & execution, operation & recovery, security & auditing, performance & installation and migration or upgrades.

The IBM DB2 qualification authenticates your capabilities in places such as coding model & style, human projects, connection, component execution, element set up & settings, application testing & debugging.

Certification Exams

Following is a list of IBM DB2 certification tests and their core topics.

Test 000-443: IBM DB2 Content Manager V8.3

• Section 1: High Level Design & Requirements Gathering (25%)
• Section 2: Installation & Configuration (13%)
• Section 3: Troubleshooting (10%)
• Section 4: Program Administration (17%)
• Section 5: Program Managed Storage (8%)
• Section 6: Maintenance & Performance Tuning (8%)
• Section 7: Content Manager Clients (7%)
• Section 8: Solution Integration (7%)
• Section 9: Core Item Info (6%)

Test 000-732: DB2 9 DBA for z/OS

• Section 1 - Database Design & Implementation (30.5%)
• Section 2 - Operation & Recovery (29%)
• Section 3 - Security & Auditing (7%)
• Section 4 - Performance (29%)
• Section 5 - Installation & Migration / Upgrade (4.5%)

 

Test 000-733: DB2 9 Application Developer

• Section 1 - Database objects & Programming Methods (16%)
• Section 2 - Data Manipulation (26%)
• Section 3 - XML Data Manipulation (10%)
• Section 4 - Entrenched SQL Encoding (4%)
• Section 5 - ODBC/CLI Encoding (4%)
• Section 6 - .NET Encoding (7%)
• Section 7 - Java Encoding (7%)
• Section 8 - Advanced Encoding (14%)
• Section 9 - User Defined Routines (12%)

 

Test 000-734: DB2 9 Advanced Database Administrator for Linux UNIX &Windows

• Section 1 - Database Design (14%)
• Section 2 - Data Portioning & Clustering (15%)
• Section 3 - High Availability & Diagnostics (20%)
• Section 4 - Performance & Scalability (33%)
• Section 5 - Security (8%)
• Section 6 - Connectivity & Networking (10%)

Test 000-735: DB2 9.5 SQL Procedure Developer

• Section 1 - SQL Procedural Language (30%)
• Section 2 - DB2 SQL Procedures (26%)
• Section 3 - Functions (16%)
• Section 4 - Triggers (10%)
• Section 5 - Advanced SQL Features (12%)
• Section 6 - Related Tools (6%)

 

Test 000-736: DB2 9 Database Administrator for Linux UNIX &Windows Upgrade

• Section 1 - Server Management (29%)
• Section 2 - Data Placement (21%)
• Section 3 - XML Concepts (13%)
• Section 4 - Analyzing DB2 Activity (16%)
• Section 5 - High Availability (10.5%)
• Section 6 - Security (10.5%)

 

Test 000-737: DB2 9 Program Administrator for z/OS Exam

• Section 1 - Installation & Migration (15%)
• Section 2 - Security & Auditing (7%)
• Section 3 - Program Operation & Maintenance (21.5%)
• Section 4 - Backup & Recovery (20%)
• Section 5 - Performance & Tuning (21.5%)
• Section 6 - Troubleshooting (15%)

IBM Certified Support Associate Certification

This Assistance Provider On-Boarding knowledge is mainly for associates who will be significant with IBM Tivoli in the supply of support to their end customers. This knowledge will protect the characteristics of support shipping in performance and shipping as well as support procedures, sources available and resources that will guide you support IBM application. IBM says about this, “We value you as a Tivoli Assistance Company and it is important to the IBM Customer Assistance company for you to comprehend IBM support involvement methods as it provides a level of reliability in the way IBM can handle our Customers. We will also figure out regularly our Partners to figure out procedure conformity and self-sufficiency.”

Required Skill Level for IBM Certified Support Associate Certification

·        Familiarity with basic performance and ideas may need to depend on support from certification or other resources.

·        Working knowledge of performance and ideas can use product or describe principles with little or no support.

·        Substantial encounter with performance or principles can show others how to use performance or describe principles.

·        Extensive and complete encounter with performance or principles can create or personalize code, structure, or procedures.

Certification Exam

IBM requires the candidates to pass only 1 exam in order to be an IBM Certified Support Associate professional. This exam is IBM test 000-023: IBM Tivoli Support Provider Tools and Processes.

Exam details are as follows:

Test 000-023: IBM Tivoli Support Provider Tools and Processes

This test contains 28 questions and time allowed is 60 minutes or 1 hour. Required passing score of this Test 000-023 is 78%. Test 000-023 is divided in 7 sections according to the core topics of the exam.

Section 1: Tivoli Worldwide Customer Support Overview

• Support Provider's Level 1 & Level 2 roles & responsibilities.
• Options available to our customers to obtain IBM customer support.

Section 2: Support Provider's Roles and Responsibilities

·        Support Provider Level 1 assistance techniques and problem perseverance actions.

·        Support Provider Level 2 assistance techniques and problem perseverance actions.

Section 3: Terminology

• Knowledge of various IBM Tivoli Support terms and definitions.

Section 4: Support Tools

• Knowledgebase and Documentation
• RSS feeds, IBM Support Assistant, IBM Education Assistant, Assist on Site, Support Technical Exchanges
• IBM developer Works and communities such as Wikis and Webcasts
• Maintenance Delivery Vehicles (MDVs) utilized by Tivoli support
• ESR/SR and Ecurep

Section 5: IBM Software Support Lifecycle Policy

• Enhanced and Standard Support Lifecycle policies.
• EOS (End of Service)

Section 6: Accessing IBM Tivoli Level 2 Support Procedures

• Processes for Level 1 and 2 Support Providers to access IBM Tivoli Support.

Section 7: PMR Escalation

• Escalation of a PMR using the Duty Manager and CSPO process.

An IBM Certified Support Associate in the area of IBM Tivoli Support Provider Tools and Processes is accountable for dealing with a wide range of queries or needs for assistance from their clients.  The assistance company is accountable for the possession and quality of these queries and may perform with IBM Tivoli Support where appropriate to take care of them.  

IBM Certified Specialist Certification

This qualification validates the skills required to collect specifications, plan, style, set up and maintain System x servers. This qualifications is targeted to IBM Company Associates, Advanced technical Specialist (ATS), Field Technical Sales Support (FTSS) professionals, System x Service Professionals, The System x sales professional has two years of comprehensive encounter in the System x marketplace, selling System x client alternatives. This qualified professional has encounter evaluating client business specifications, utilizing sales tools and resources, creating and providing alternatives, and handling client connections.  

These professionals can perform the following projects without assistance:  communicate the advantages of IBM's business record solutions; size, style, designer and set up a remedy to meet requirements; apply the solution; recommend options for advanced policy management functions

Certification Exams

Certification exams & their core topics are as follows:

Test 000-076: System x Sales V5

·        System x & BladeCenter Market Opportunities

·        Marketplace drivers

·        User requirements

·        Drivers & inhibitors

·        Buying behavior

·        SMB & Enterprise pain points

Test 000-120: Academic Associate: IBM i 7

·        Work Management (27%)

·        System Security (27%)

·        Backup & Recovery (12%)

·        PTF Management (5%)

·        Daily Tasks (29%)

Test 000-139: AppScan Standard Edition

• Section 1: Web Application Security Basics (29%)
• Section 2: AppScan Basics (5%)
• Section 3: AppScan Configuration (35%)
• Section 4: Reviewing & Verifying AppScan Results (31%)

 

Test 000-551: IBM Optim Implementation for Distributed Systems (2009)

• Section 1 - Installation & Configuration (20%)
• Section 2 - Implementation Methodology (27%)
• Section 3 - Optim Core Functionality (35%)
• Section 5 - Performance & Troubleshooting (4%)

 

Test 000-636: Requirements Management with Use Cases - Part 1

·        Intro to Requirements Management/Best Practices, 

·        Elicit & Specify Requirements 

·        Manage Requirements 

·        Manage the scope of the system 

·        Managing changing requirements 

 

Test 000-637: Requirements Management with Use Cases - Part 2

• Use-Case Modeling 
• Structuring the Model 
• Define & Refine the System 
• Manage Changing Requirements

 

Test 000-641: Robot

• Developing & executing shell scripts & test suites 
• Investigating & analyzing test results through the Rational Test Log Window & Comparators 
• Applying good scripting practices 
• Recording, debugging & programming techniques in Rational Robot 
• Inserting verification points & wait states to ensure test script reliability & validity 
• Operational with Rational Projects 
• Organizing test assets in Rational Test Manager 
• Utilizing reports in Rational Test Manager 
• Creating data-driven tests 
• Regression testing using existing Rational Robot test scripts 

Test SPS-100: IBMSPSSSTATL1P: IBM SPSS Statistics Level 1

• Operations & Running IBM SPSS Statistics (15%)
• Reading & Defining Data (15%)
• Data Understanding or Descriptive (10%)
• Data Management (15%)
• Data Transformations (15%)
• Output: Editing & Exploring (10%)
• Basic Inferential Statistics (20%)

 

Test R24: IBM SurePOS 300 Models 340 & E40 Technical Mastery

• Servicing & Maintaining the SurePOS 34x & E4x (49%)
• SurePOS 300 Series Models 34x & E4x Series Overview (51%)

 

Test R22: IBM SurePOS 500 Series models 5x6 Technical mastery

• Describe the features & technical specifications of the SurePOS 5x6 Series models (21%)
• List the hardware & software requirements (12%)
• Describe the improved tool-free serviceability features (12%)
• Describe the installation & removal procedures for the main system components (21%)
• Describe the retail hardening tests for point-of-sale (POS) systems (5%)
• Explain how to troubleshoot & maintain models 526 & 566 (18%)
• Identify the various resources that are available if you have questions about the SurePOS 5x6 models (5%)
• List the warranty information (6%)