IBM A2180-376 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

The business wants to alert administrators and business owners to any service disruptions as soon as possible. This is to include any applications that receive request messages on input queues and have to respond to them as quickly as possible. The ideal solution will not introduce significant overhead to the environment. The WebSphere MQ solution designer is asked to evaluate the available features in WebSphere MQ that can be used to address this requirement.
Which of the following is the most responsive mechanism to address outages as soon as they develop?

A WebSphere MQ client application is sending messages to a central server which will later be processed in batch. Given that all information is stored only in a central location, what is the best way of designing such communication? The application:

In designing a solution with availability in mind, the designer is considering the following two alternatives, one using a cluster queue and the other using a shared queue. In each scenario, Queue Managers QMA and QMB will both be capable of running Application A.
In the first scenario, Application A will run on QMA and QMB on Windows accessing cluster queue QA. In the second scenario, Application A will run on QMA and QMB on z/OS accessing shared queue QA. Which of the following describes the availability scenarios in the situation where QMA fails?

When designing a WebSphere MQ based JMS application, it is most important that your application can capture which one of the following?

A solution designer is looking to utilize industry standard technologies but does not want to settle for the qualities of service that HTTP offers. Which of the following is not a benefit of using SOAP/WebSphere MQ over SOAP/HTTP?

A company would like to expand their services to accept incoming orders from external partners.
Some of the external partners already use WebSphere MQ, and the others could install WebSphere MQ or run a WebSphere MQ client. The company is concerned about significantly increasing the number of channels into their queue manager as a result of connecting to so many new external partners. Which of the following could reduce this concern?

A solution designer is using the DEFPSIST attribute on the queue definition to determine message persistence. Queue Manager QMA has a QREMOTE queue defined that points to a QALIAS definition on Queue Manager QMB, which in turn names a QLOCAL queue as its TARGET. If an application puts a message to the QREMOTE on Queue Manager QMA, which of the queue definitions will control the persistence of the message?

A server application needs to record a unique id from the user who has created a request message in the Windows environment. Which MQMD field contains this information?

Which one of the following statements is true about the use of message properties and message selectors?

A new version of the application running on queue manager LONDON10 in cluster EUROPA is going to be installed. During the scheduled change window, backups will be taken for LONDON10, and then the application will be upgraded. To prepare the queue manager before the start of the maintenance window, a command should be issued for LONDON10 to do which of the following?