IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management V8.0 Application Development Sample Questions:

1. An application developer is required to implement the following business policy represented by this pseudo code which has a set of non-symmetrical rules.

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What rule artifact(s) should the application developer author?

A) A decision tree with multiple branches.
B) A decision table without preconditions, four condition columns, and multiple action columns.
C) Two business action language rules using the else statement in both.
D) A decision table with a precondition, three condition columns, and multiple action columns.

2. Due to recent government legislation regarding mortgages, a financial institution needs to improve its governance processes by ensuring that all deployed changes to loan processing rules are traceable for auditing purposes. What should the application developer do to set up the Decision Center environment?

A) Work with the rule authors to define loan processing rule templates.
B) Create deployment baselines for each RuleApp deployment.
C) Turn on the default Decision Center tracing.
D) Work with the business analysts to design custom queries that return all deployed loan processing rules.

3. A bank is developing a loan application system with business rules. An application developer adds a ruleset parameter loanReport of type LoanReport which contains the ?valid? attribute. The application developer needs to initialize the ruleset parameter ?loanReport? and set default value of the valid attribute to ?true? with ILOG Rule Language (IRL) code. How should the application developer do this?

A) In the transition that links Start node to the first rule task, enter the IRL code to set the default value.
B) Set the default value of the loanReport parameter to: new LoanReport(valid=true)
C) Add a rule task node in the ruleflow and in its Initial Action section enter Business Action Language (BAL) and edit the IRL translation.
D) Add an Action task node in the ruleflow, and enter the IRL code to set the default value.

4. A ruleset for validating the content of a message including cross-field validation and business range checking is ready to be integrated into an architecture with only a JVM container. The application must have the capability of providing to and removing from working memory any number of objects without resetting the rule session. Which execution approach should the application developer choose for this application integration?

A) POJO with stateful rule session
B) Java SE with stateful rule session
C) Java SE with stateless rule session
D) POJO with stateless rule session

5. Business users manage promotions within Decision Center. To manage the promotions within Decision Center, the user interface needs to be customized with a new Promotion tab on the top menu. What should an application developer to do to register the Promotion tab?

A) Register the tab through Installation Settings Wizard within Decision Center.
B) Register the tab through modifying the Decision Center configuration parameters in the application server.
C) Add a teamserver:tab tag to /custom/tabs.jsp.
D) Add the tab to the /WEB-INF/teamserver.tld file.

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