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C1000 196 DataPower Administrator
The course teaches administrators to configure, manage, and optimize IBM DataPower Gateway v10.x, covering appliance setup, services, security, networking, performance, monitoring, and high‑availability strategies across enterprise environments.
90
Minutes
62
Questions
62/100
Passing Score
$200
Exam Cost
Who Should Take This
It is intended for IT professionals who act as DataPower administrators or senior engineers, with at least two years of experience managing network appliances. Learners aim to validate their expertise, advance to strategic roles, and ensure reliable, secure, and high‑performance integration of services within complex enterprise architectures.
What's Covered
1
Domain 1: Appliance Admin
2
Domain 2: Services
3
Domain 3: Security
4
Domain 4: Network and Performance
5
Domain 5: Monitoring and HA
6
Domain 6: Troubleshooting
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Course Outline
61 learning goals
1
Domain 1: Appliance Admin
3 topics
Configuration
- Configure appliance initial setup with network interfaces, DNS, NTP, and management access.
- Configure DataPower network interfaces with VLAN tagging, IP addressing, and routing table entries for multi-segment network connectivity.
- Configure firmware management with upgrade procedures, rollback, and compatibility verification.
- Analyze resource utilization to diagnose memory pressure, CPU saturation, and connection exhaustion.
Backup
- Implement backup with secure backup encryption, configuration export, and automated scheduling.
- Configure DR with appliance replication, config sync, and failover testing procedures.
- Design backup strategies with RPO/RTO targets, automated validation, and cross-site replication.
File Management
- Implement DataPower firmware management with scheduled upgrades, backup configurations, and rollback procedures for appliance fleet maintenance.
- Configure DataPower domain separation with isolated configuration contexts, inter-domain communication policies, and resource quotas.
- Analyze DataPower deployment patterns to design multi-domain architectures separating development, testing, and production workloads.
2
Domain 2: Services
3 topics
Service Types
- Configure multi-protocol gateways with front-side handlers, policies, and back-side connections.
- Implement web service proxy with WSDL management, WS-Policy, and SOAP validation.
- Configure XML firewall for validation, schema enforcement, and threat protection.
- Configure API gateway for REST management with rate limiting, security, and analytics.
- Analyze requirements to select between MPG, WSP, XML firewall, and API gateway.
Processing
- Implement processing policies with match rules, actions, and rule directions for pipelines.
- Configure transformation with XSLT stylesheets and GatewayScript for message processing.
- Implement routing with URL-rewrite, dynamic backend selection, and load balancing groups.
- Design multi-protocol gateway architectures routing SOAP, REST, and MQ traffic through unified security and transformation policies.
Front/Back Side
- Configure front-side handlers with HTTP, HTTPS, MQ, and file-based listeners.
- Implement back-side connections with SSL profiles, pooling, and timeout configuration.
- Analyze connection patterns to optimize listener config and connection pooling.
3
Domain 3: Security
3 topics
Crypto
- Configure crypto objects with certificates, keys, keystores, and SSL profiles.
- Implement mutual TLS with client cert validation, CRL checking, and OCSP stapling.
- Configure HSM integration for FIPS-compliant key management and crypto operations.
- Analyze SSL/TLS config to select ciphers, protocols, and cert chains for compliance.
AAA
- Configure AAA policies with authentication, authorization, and auditing using LDAP and custom methods.
- Implement OAuth 2.0 and JWT validation with claims mapping and scope enforcement.
- Configure WS-Security with XML signature, encryption, and SAML token processing.
- Design certificate lifecycle management strategies with automated renewal, revocation checking, and hierarchical trust chain configuration.
Threat Protection
- Configure threat protection including SQL injection, XSS, XML bomb, and size limits.
- Implement rate limiting with throttle policies, connection limits, and transaction management.
- Analyze security audit log data to detect suspicious API access patterns and implement threat response procedures on DataPower.
- Analyze security logs to identify attack patterns, violations, and unauthorized access.
4
Domain 4: Network and Performance
3 topics
Networking
- Configure VLANs, static routes, host aliases, and interface bonding for segmentation.
- Implement load balancer groups with health checks, weights, and sticky sessions.
- Analyze XSLT transformation performance by profiling execution times and identifying inefficient template matching patterns in DataPower.
Performance
- Configure caching with document cache, web service cache, and invalidation policies.
- Implement connection management with persistent connections, pooling, and timeout tuning.
- Analyze DataPower caching behavior using statistics to evaluate cache hit ratios and optimize document caching configuration parameters.
- Design DataPower error handling architectures with custom error pages, logging policies, and automated remediation procedures.
Container Deployment
- Implement DataPower log target configuration with remote syslog destinations, log rotation policies, and structured event formatting.
- Implement DataPower operator on OpenShift for lifecycle management and scaling.
- Design containerized deployment with horizontal scaling, health monitoring, and updates.
5
Domain 5: Monitoring and HA
3 topics
Monitoring
- Configure logging with log targets, event subscriptions, and syslog forwarding.
- Implement SNMP monitoring with MIB objects, traps, and enterprise platform integration.
- Analyze probe output and transaction tracking data to diagnose message flow processing failures in DataPower gateway services.
- Design DataPower troubleshooting methodologies using systematic diagnostic data collection, analysis workflows, and escalation procedures.
HA
- Configure HA with standby control, config sync, and virtual IP failover.
- Configure DataPower performance monitoring with SNMP agents, statistics collection, and threshold-based alerting for capacity management.
- Analyze failover behavior to verify RTO and identify single points of failure.
- Design DataPower capacity planning strategies using historical performance metrics to forecast hardware and throughput requirements.
Firmware and Lifecycle Management
- Implement DataPower firmware upgrade procedures with pre-upgrade validation and rollback planning.
- Analyze DataPower configuration version differences using export comparison tools to validate change management compliance.
- Analyze firmware compatibility matrices to plan upgrade sequences across DataPower appliance fleets.
6
Domain 6: Troubleshooting
2 topics
Diagnostics
- Configure error handling with custom error rules, result actions, and error logging.
- Implement transaction recording for message capture and replay during troubleshooting.
- Analyze probe output and transaction logs to diagnose policy execution failures.
Operations
- Configure operational monitoring dashboards with service status, latency, and error metrics.
- Implement automated health checks with scheduled probes and alerting thresholds.
- Design operational excellence with proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and runbook automation.
Scope
Included Topics
- All domains of IBM DataPower Gateway v10.x Administrator Professional (C1000-196).
- DataPower v10.x: MPG, WSP, XML firewall, API gateway, crypto, AAA policies.
- Admin: firmware, domains, backup, monitoring, logging, HA.
- Security: SSL/TLS, WS-Security, OAuth, JWT, threat protection.
Not Covered
- API Connect admin beyond DataPower.
- Non-IBM API gateways.
- Deep Linux kernel admin.
- App development beyond GatewayScript/XSLT.
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