IBM C9520-421 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

Exam Code/Number: C9520-421
Exam Name/Title: IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 System Administration Core A
Certification Provider: IBM
Corresponding Certification: IBM Certified System Administrator

Exam Questions: 58
Updated On: May 28, 2026

Question #7

Sarah migrated her IBM WebSphere Portal environment. She notices that some IBM portlets are missing from the pages they used to be on.
Why would these portlets be missing?

A. These portlets are hidden as they are deprecated.

B. The portlets must be updated to the right JDK before they are visible.

C. There was an error during migration, and the portlets were skipped.

D. Some portlets are not migrated as they are no longer included.

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #8

Bill's company is migrating an IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 environment to version 8.5.
Which two statements are true for the Web Clipper portlet to be migrated? (Choose two.)

A. Bill's company must use the Virtual Web Application Manager portlet instead.

B. The Web Clipper portlet will be migrated successfully by the migration tooling.

C. The Web Clipper portlet is no longer supported.

D. The migration tooling must be configured to convert the Web Clipper portlet to a custom portlet.

E. The Web Clipper portlet must be downloaded and installed manually post-migration.

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Correct Answer: B,E Vote an answer

Question #9

What is required to use the resource environment provider in an application?

A. a factory class

B. a factory class and a class that provides custom properties

C. a JAR file

D. a class that provides custom properties

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

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Question #10

What is one advantage of a dynamic cluster over a static cluster?

A. to dynamically allow a large extent of scoping and separating portal resources, user groups, and administration

B. to allow dynamic control over the server-specific configuration, as they are unique from server to server

C. to serve multiple user groups by dynamically separating Portal sites for different purposes

D. to balance workload of each server dynamically based on performance information that is collected from each server

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

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Question #11

Alice attempts to update her existing LDAP configuration. Her configuration task ends with a BUILD FAILED. Alice is confident that she is passing the correct parameters to the configuration task.
What extra action can Alice take to complete the configuration task successfully?

A. Disable Global Security in WebSphere Application Server and then rerun the original configuration task.

B. Add the -Dskip.ldap.validation=true parameter and then rerun the original configuration task.

C. Run the disable-security configuration task and then rerun the original configuration task.

D. Disable Application Security in WebSphere Application Server and then rerun the original configuration task.

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #12

Larry needs to prevent a server from getting requests but needs the other cluster members to remain available.
What is the easiest way to accomplish this task?

A. Unmap the IBM WebSphere Portal server from the web server and regen the plug-in.

B. Comment out the Server stanza from the ServerCluster stanza in the plugin-cfg.xml.

C. Block the IP oftheweb server on the IBM WebSphere Portal node.

D. Unfederate the node from the dmgr and regen the plugin-cfg.xml.

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

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