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C1000 174 WebSphere Administrator
The course teaches administrators how to install, deploy, secure, optimize, and script IBM WebSphere Application Server v9.0.5, covering installation, deployment, security, performance, high availability, and automation.
90
Minutes
62
Questions
62/100
Passing Score
$200
Exam Cost
Who Should Take This
It is designed for system and application administrators, DevOps engineers, and technical leads who have at least one year of experience managing WebSphere environments and seek to validate their expertise in installation, deployment, security, performance tuning, and high‑availability scripting to support enterprise‑grade operations.
What's Covered
1
Domain 1: Installation
2
Domain 2: Deployment
3
Domain 3: Security
4
Domain 4: Performance
5
Domain 5: HA and Scripting
6
Domain 6: Migration
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Practice Questions
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Course Outline
62 learning goals
1
Domain 1: Installation
3 topics
Installation
- Configure WebSphere installation using IBM Installation Manager with repository and fix pack management.
- Implement cell topology with deployment manager, profiles, node agents, and federated servers.
- Configure web server plugins with IHS for load distribution and plugin regeneration.
- Design multi-cell and multi-cluster topologies for isolation, HA, and administrative delegation.
Server Tuning
- Configure JVM settings including heap size, GC policies, generic arguments, and verbose GC logging.
- Implement thread pool tuning for web container, ORB, and default threads with sizing.
- Configure virtual host definitions, HTTP transport channels, and web container properties.
- Analyze heap dumps and GC logs to diagnose memory leaks, OOM, and GC overhead.
- Design JVM tuning balancing heap, GC policy, and native memory for production.
Environment
- Configure environment variables, custom properties, and shared libraries at cell/node/server scopes.
- Analyze WebSphere cell topology using administrative console and wsadmin scripting to map application deployment dependencies.
- Design WebSphere cell architecture with federated node agent topology for distributed application deployment across data centers.
2
Domain 2: Deployment
3 topics
Application Deployment
- Configure deployment with EAR/WAR installation, virtual host mapping, and class loader policies.
- Implement update strategies with rollout, parallel deployment, and edition management.
- Configure shared libraries, class loaders, and resource references for dependency management.
- Analyze class loading issues to diagnose ClassNotFoundException and version conflicts.
Resources
- Configure JDBC data sources with connection pool sizing, statement cache, and aged timeout.
- Implement JMS resources with connection factories, queues, and activation specifications.
- Configure session management with in-memory replication, DB persistence, and session affinity.
- Analyze connection pool utilization to optimize sizing, detect leaks, and resolve timeouts.
Transactions
- Configure transaction service with log recovery, timeout settings, and 2PC coordination.
- Analyze thread dump output to diagnose application deadlocks, thread contention, and resource exhaustion in WebSphere runtime.
- Analyze transaction logs to diagnose XA failures, heuristic completions, and connectivity.
3
Domain 3: Security
3 topics
Global Security
- Configure global security with admin/app security, user registries, and auth mechanisms.
- Implement LDAP and federated registry with realm management and failover settings.
- Configure admin role mapping with fine-grained roles, console access, and scripting security.
- Design enterprise security with global security, SSO, trust associations, and SPNEGO.
SSL
- Configure SSL certificates with keystores, truststores, signers, and dynamic SSL repertoire.
- Implement certificate lifecycle with renewal, chained certs, and expiration monitoring.
- Analyze SSL handshake failures to diagnose trust, protocol, and cipher incompatibility.
Application Security
- Configure security constraints with role mapping, RunAs delegation, and security-role refs.
- Implement security attribute propagation with CSIv2 transport and identity assertion.
- Design message-driven architecture with WebSphere MQ integration using activation specifications and connection factory pooling.
4
Domain 4: Performance
3 topics
Monitoring
- Configure PMI counters, Health Center, and request timing for performance monitoring.
- Implement Performance Viewer for real-time thread pool, connection pool, and servlet monitoring.
- Analyze thread dumps to identify deadlocks, contention, and hung threads.
- Analyze request timing to identify slow servlets, EJBs, and DB calls.
- Design monitoring strategies combining PMI, Health Center, and external tools.
Troubleshooting
- Configure diagnostic trace with component-level strings, rotation, and HPEL logging.
- Implement FFDC with core dumps, heap dumps, and system dumps for crash analysis.
- Configure mustgather data collection with ISA Data Collector for IBM Support.
- Analyze FFDC logs, systemout, and trace to diagnose deployment and runtime errors.
Web Server Plugin Management
- Implement IBM HTTP Server plugin configuration with virtual hosts, plugin propagation, and load balancing.
- Analyze plugin log data to diagnose request routing failures and optimize connection timeout settings.
- Design web server tier architecture with multiple HTTP servers, affinity management, and SSL offloading.
5
Domain 5: HA and Scripting
3 topics
Clustering
- Configure server clusters with members, workload management, and dynamic auto-scaling.
- Implement HA manager with core groups, preferred coordinator, and failover policies.
- Analyze First Failure Data Capture output and diagnostic trace logs to perform root cause analysis of WebSphere runtime failures.
- Design DR architectures with cell backup, cross-cell failover, and DB replication.
Scripting
- Implement wsadmin Jython scripts for automated configuration, deployment, and resources.
- Configure automated WebSphere administration using wsadmin Jython scripts for deployment, configuration, and operational tasks across cells.
- Analyze wsadmin patterns to automate complex workflows with health checks and audits.
- Design admin frameworks using wsadmin, ANT, and CI/CD for repeatable management.
Containerized Deployment
- Implement WebSphere Liberty container images with server.xml configuration and Docker build optimization.
- Configure Kubernetes operator deployment for WebSphere Liberty with auto-scaling and health probes.
- Analyze container resource limits to right-size Liberty pods for optimal throughput per replica.
6
Domain 6: Migration
2 topics
Version Migration
- Implement migration from WebSphere v8.5 to v9.0.5 with migration wizard and compatibility checks.
- Configure Liberty migration toolkit for application readiness analysis and feature mapping.
- Analyze modernization paths to recommend migration from traditional WAS to containers.
Compliance
- Configure audit logging with security event capture, log forwarding, and retention policies.
- Implement compliance monitoring with security configuration audits and vulnerability scanning.
- Design compliance architectures with audit trails, access controls, and regulatory reporting.
Scope
Included Topics
- All domains of IBM WebSphere v9.0.5 Administrator (C1000-174).
- WebSphere v9.0.5: deployment manager, clusters, virtual hosts, web server plugins.
- Admin: JVM tuning, thread pools, data sources, messaging, session management.
- Security: global security, LDAP, SSL, admin roles, application security.
Not Covered
- Liberty runtime (C1000-155).
- WebSphere CE.
- Cloud-native patterns.
- Non-IBM app servers.
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