IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 Solution Development Sample Questions:

1. Wendy's theme was recently installed on a server. A colleague provided her with theme components to deploy, which given design requirements, is packaged as an EAR file inside a compressed ZIP file. Which of the following is a valid option for deploying these components?

A) Use the web-dav-deploy-zip-file to deploy the compressed file. Use the IBM WebSphere Integrated Solutions console or scripts to deploy theEAR file. Use XMLAccess to import the components into the IBM WebSphere Portal server.
B) Use the web-dav-deploy-zip-file to deploy the compressed file and use the XMLAccess command to run the script. Use the WebSphereIntegrated Solutions console to add the runtime configuration.
C) Use the web-dav-deploy-zip-file to deploy the compressed file. Use the webdav-expand-ear command to unpackage the EAR on the server,then register the new EAR on the WebSphere Integrated Solutions console.
D) EAR files must be deployed using the WebSphere Integrated Solutions console, so she must remove it from the ZIP archive and install itdirectly.

2. Emery is trying to make it so users from a specific geographic location do not have access to a specific metrics application hosted on their IBM WebSphere Portal server. Which of the following options is provided within WebSphere Portal that Emery can use to this purpose?

A) Emery can use the call to ensure the portlet is hidden for thegeography to block.
B) Emery can use Personalization Rules to hide the portlet, leveraging information in the user repository regarding the user's geographiclocation.
C) None of the above. Emery is going to need to create a page and assign metadata parameters to hide the specific portlet from users fromgeographies that are not allowed to see it.
D) Emery's users must register as being from a specific geography and Emery can develop workflow methods leveraging thePortalUserIdentityBean (or PUIB) object to ensure the portlet does not generate markup for the user in this geography.

3. Evan wants to develop a portlet to act as a target using click-to-action. He wants to develop a client-side click-to-action handler. Which best describes the ways that he can get the source data submitted by the source portlet?

A) He can retrieve the source form and the input inside from the page Document Object Model.
B) Either of the above.
C) He can retrieve the source data from the window.ibm.portal.c2a.event.value global variable.
D) None of the above.

4. Usha has developed a JSR 286 compliant portlet. She wants to use it on a WSRP producer so that it can be consumed by a remote IBM WebSphere Portal server. What changes if any should be made?

A) She should change her portlet class to implement ServiceDescription, Markup, Registration and PortletManagement interface.
B) She does not have to make any changes.
C) She must set the enable WSRP portlet initialization parameter to true in the portlet.xml file.
D) She should change her portlet class to implement ServiceDescription and Markup interface.

5. Which of the following options describes the rules created by selecting the Select Action rule type when creating a personalization rule?

A) Select Action rules send a personalized email to a set of users that is defined by another rule.
B) Select Action rules allow pages and portlets to be hidden based on conditions expressed in the rule.
C) Select Action rules return items of content from a resource collection based on conditions expressed in the rule.
D) Select Action rules return actions for a portlet based on conditions expressed in the rule.

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