EMT Practice Test

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Question1: It is important to the IBM WebSphere MQ operations team that none of their application queues exceed seventy percent of the maximum number of messages the queues can hold. By default, application queues are created with a maximum depth of one thousand messages.
What commands can the operations team use to monitor ROUTE_DATA_Q?

Question2: Which channel definition will require that client applications using channel ABC establish a mutually authenticated SSL channel?

Question3: A new publish/subscribe application is being developed which will make use of a basic broker topology consisting of a parent broker PBRK and two child brokers, C1BRK and C2BRK.
Which set of will quickly ensure the child brokers will have their necessary default objects and can communicate with the parent broker?

Question4: Two queue managers, QMGR1 and QMGR2, are running on Windows connected by sender receiver channels. An application connected to QMGR1 puts persistent messages on a remote queue of QMGR1 destined for a local queue of QMGR2. The administrator is notified that the messages have not reached QMGR2. On investigation the administrator notices that the server on which QMGR2 runs has crashed and rebooted automatically. The administrator also notices that the sender channel on QMGR1 is in an in doubt state.
What action can the administrator take to recover the messages?

Question5: An administrator deployed a new application on queue manager QMGR1 in their AIX server. The administrator notices that the application is crashing frequently and contacts the IBM support team for help.
The IBM support team asks the administrator to send any First Failure Support Technology (FFST) files that have been generated.
Which of the following files should the administrator send to the IBM support team?

Question6: An administrator notices that several queue managers running on the same Linux system are generating FFST files that indicate problems with shared memory.
Which one of the following actions might resolve these issues?

Question7: Which MQSC command will display the status of applications subscribing to the topic Price/Fruit/Apple?

Question8: An application is putting messages on queue TEST.QUEUE. The queue manager is running on mydomain.company.com listening on the default port. The IBM WebSphere MQ Bridge for HTTP was deployed under the context WMQBridge in an IBM WebSphere Application Server listening on port 9082 on the same machine.
How can an AJAX application running on a remote machine perform a destructive get of messages from TEST.QUEUE?

Question9: Which command dumps the security authorization of an MQ object in a readable format?

Question10: Which of the following benefits best describe the flexibility offered by WebSphere MQ for application developers? (Choose two.)

Question11: An administrator will install IBM WebSphere MQ on an AIX platform. There is a requirement to configure the installation to store the queue manager's data files under a directory tree different from the default specified by the installation.
After creating the appropriate directory tree, the administrator should:

Question12: An administrator has been asked to create a listener that listens on port 1416 and starts automatically when the queue manager is started.
Which of the following MQSC commands will create the listener?

Question13: Which two user profiles are mandatory to correctly run IBM WebSphere MQ on i5/OS?

Question14: A system administrator has defined the following MQ objects on three queue managers. An application connects to queue manager QM1 to put a message on ALIAS.Q99.
Where does the message get delivered?
QM1 DEFINE QALIAS(ALIAS.Q99) TARGET(Q99) DEFINE QREMOTE(Q99) RNAME(Q99) RQMNAME (QM3) ALTER QMGR DEFXMITQ(QM2) DEFINE QL(QM2) USAGE(XMITQ) DEFINE CHANNEL (QM1.TO.QM2) CHLTYPE(SDR) TRPTYPE(TCP) REPLACE + DESCR('Sender channel to QM2') XMITQ (QM2)+ CONNAME('9.20.9.32(1412)') QM2 DEFINE CHANNEL(QM1.TO.QM2) CHLTYPE(RCVR) TRPTYPE(TCP)REPLACE ALTER QMGR DEFXMITQ(QM3) DEFINEQL(QM3) USAGE(XMITQ) DEFINE CHANNEL(QM2.TO.QM3) CHLTYPE(SDR) TRPTYPE(TCP) REPLACE + DESCR('Sender channel to QM3') XMITQ(QM3)+ CONNAME('9.20.9.33(1415)') QM3 DEFINE CHANNEL(QM2.TO.QM3) CHLTYPE (RCVR) TRPTYPE(TCP)+ REPLACE DESCR('Receiver channel from QM2') DEFINE QL(Q99)

Question15: For the Solaris platform, which databases are supported as a resource manager in transactions coordinated by IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0?

Question16: An administrator is setting up a transmit queue so that the channel associated with it is automatically started. However, the channel does not start when messages are placed on the queue. The current attributes of the queue:
DISPLAY QL (QM2) USAGE TRIGGER TRIGTYPE TRIGDATA TRIGDPTH TRIGMPRI IPPROCS OPPROCS INITQ 1 : DISPLAY QL(QM2) USAGE TRIGGER TRIGTYPE TRIGDATA TRIGDPTH TRIGMPRI IPPROCS OPPROCS INITQ AMQ8409:
Display Queue details.
QUEUE (QM2) TYPE(QLOCAL) INITQ(SYSTEM.DEFAULT.INITIATION.QUEUE) IPPROCS(0) TRIGGER OPPROCS(0) TRIGDATA(QM1.2.QM2) TRIGDPTH(1) TRIGMPRI(0) TRIGTYPE(FIRST) USAGE (XMITQ) Which corrective action is required to start the channel automatically?

Question17: The sender and receiver channels have been set up between two queue managers. An administrator wants to start the sender channel automatically whenever messages arrive on the corresponding transmission queue.
What does the administrator need to start as a trigger monitor for the sender channel?

Question18: To make sure a SSL enabled channel can start successfully, the Distinguished Name (DN) of the certificate received from the peer queue manager or client must match the value of which channel attribute?

Question19: An administrator creates a queue manager on an AIX server which contains two other queue managers.
During the verification process, the administrator notices that the /var/mqm/qmgrs directory is empty.
Which file does the administrator need to refer to for the location of the queue manages' directory?

Question20: In order to grant authority for user appuser1 to Q1, the following commands were issued in sequence.
setmqaut -m qmgr1 -n Q1 -t queue -p appuser1 +put +get setmqaut -m qmgr1 -n Q1 - t queue -p appuser1 +crt setmqaut -m qmgr1 -n Q1 -t queue -p appuser1 -all setmqaut -m qmgr1 -n Q1 -t queue -p appuser1 +browse What access authority does user appuser1 have to the queue Q1?

Question21: What MQI verb is not permitted from a WebSphere MQ application program running in a base WebSphere MQ Client environment?

Question22: An application deployed on z/OS was causing frequent abends. Which of the following options from the IPCS Dump Component Panel can an administrator use to analyse the problem?

Question23: Which one of the following commands will allow an administrator to enter PCF commands to be issued to the z/OS remote queue manager called QMGZ?

Question24: An administrator is performing installation of WebSphere MQ on several Windows servers using the following command:
Misexec /i "C:\Temp\MSI\IBM websphere MQ.msi" /1*v C:\Install\websphereMQ.txt /q SAVEINI=C: \Install
\AMQServer.txt TRANSFORMS=" 1033.mst"AGREETOLICENSE="yes"
The administrator notices mat the installation fails on one of the servers.
Which of the following files will give the administrator details about the installation failure?

Question25: Which of the following are performance enhancements to the Java Message Service provider implementation in IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0? (Choose three.)

Question26: An administrator needs to start three channels (QM1.TO.QM2, QM1.TO.QM3 and QM1.TO.QM4) simultaneously whenever a message is placed on queue QLOCAL on QM1. QLOCAL has been set for triggering with trigger type as first.
Which actions will accomplish this task?

Question27: An administrator wants to define a IBM WebSphere MQ object so that the applications can be prevented from sending messages to the processing applications queue APPQ, but continue to allow administrators to send test messages to the processing application.
The application will send messages using an object ABC. What MQSC command should be used?

Question28: A company has a heterogeneous MQ infrastructure.
What feature of MQ Explorer V7.0 can be used to categorize by platform and simultaneously all the queue managers running on a particular platform?

Question29: An administrator using WebSphere MQ Explorer is unable to connect to queue manager PROD after it has been migrated, and receives error message SYSTEM .MQ EXPLORER. REPLY. MODEL not defined.
Which command will refresh the existing system objects to resolve this issue?

Question30: Which of the following message data compression options are valid for sender channels in IBM WebSphere MQ? (Choose two.)

Question31: An application using several queue managers is being tested for its end-to-end message throughput rates.
The delivery times for the messages are longer than what the developers expect, and some messages are randomly lost.
What can be done to help resolve this problem?

Question32: A server hosting clustered queue manager APP_QM1 experienced an outage. The server was restarted but the queue manager could not be restarted. The cluster that APP_QM1 is part of hosts business critical applications and thus the workload algorithm needs to continue to route messages as efficiently as possible.
What would be the next step to maintain this efficiency?

Question33: An administrator defined a queue for a high volume application that can process 25000 messages as follow:
DEFINE QLOCAL (TEST.LOCAL) + MAXTDEPTH (25000)
The administrator is notified that when the application is started they are encountering
"MQRC_SYNCPOINT_LIMIT_REACHED". What could be the likely caused?

Question34: Queue manager QMGR1 and QMGR2 are connected by sender receiver channels. An application puts messages on a remote queue of QMGR1 that are then delivered to a local queue of QMGR2.
The administrator is notified that messages are not reaching their destination on queue manager QMGR2 and notices that the queue depth of the transmission queue is increasing on QMGR1.
Why aren't messages reaching QMGR2?

Question35: The WebSphere MQ development team requires that all queue managers in their environment must use linear logging for recovering purposes. However, the operations team wants to keep the file system as small as possible.
What can the operations team do to automate the log cleanup process?

Question36: When an application puts a message on a remote queue, which sequence will the queue manager follow to identify the transmit queue?

Question37: In a business integration solution, messages are exchanged between the sending application using JMS, and a receiving application using the native WebSphere MQ API. An administrator executes the following command to create an object.
InitCtx> define q(D_Q1) queue(Q1) targclient(MQ)
Which one of the following statements is true?

Question38: An administrator is planning a fix pack upgrade on a WebSphere MQ server containing a cluster queue manager. As part of the fix pack upgrade, the administrator needs to minimize the impact to the cluster environment and still allow the queue manager on the upgraded server to continue to be part of the cluster.
What command will help the administrator accomplish this task?

Question39: Which of the following statements are true, regarding applications that communicate via IBM WebSphere MQ? (Choose two.) IBM WebSphere MQ applications have to agree upon:

Question40: A client application initiates an SSL connection with a queue manager.
After the connection is successfully established, which of the following keys is used to encrypt the exchanged data?

Question41: What is the best way to create queue manager QM1 on UNIX so all developers can connect to it without any authority checks being performed?

Question42: An application wants to put messages onto a queue RQ on queue manager QM2 defined as follows:
DEFINE QREMOTE(RQ) XMITQ(XQ) RNAME(Q1) RQMNAME(QM1)
Which of the following objects does the authority checking occur on?

Question43: The following restrictions have been placed on messages flowing from a banking application on AIX to a data warehousing application on z/OS:
-Partner authentication
-Message encryption
-Maintenance of Data Integrity
Which exits will fulfil these requirements? (Choose three.)

Question44: MYTOPIC has been defined with the command:
DEFINE T(MYTOPIC)
TOPICSTR(Sports/Football)
Which of the following commands are valid to modify MYTOPIC? (Choose two.)

Question45: A company running IBM WebSphere MQ V5.3 on UNIX upgraded to IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0.
Immediately after the migration, what is the administrator expected to do?
Start the:

Question46: An application connected to queue manager QMA needs to put messages on queues defined on queue manager QMB. If this application intends to specify QMB as the queue manager name in the MQMD, which of these sets of commands will set up the communications infrastructure properly?

Question47: An administrator is asked to check whether existing channels with transport type of TCP are SSL enabled.
Which one of the following commands does the administrator need to use for this purpose?

Question48: Which features of IBM WebSphere MQ specifically provide robust message transport?

Question49: The administrator has been asked to take a back up of log files to free up log space on the disk for a queue manager running with linear logging. Which runmqsc commands will be used to determine the superfluous (inactive) log files?
1. DISPLAY QMGR
2. DISPLAY QMSTATUS CURRLOG
3. DISPLAY QMSTATUS RECLOG
4. DISPLAY QMSTATUS MEDIALOG

Question50: An administrator deployed an IBM WebSphere MQ application on an AIX server which is causing a lot of errors to be generated in the WebSphere MQ error logs.
Which option should be used by the administrator to increase the size of the IBM WebSphere MQ error logs?

Question51: Which statement about the WebSphere MG services control command amqmdain is true?
The administrator can:

Question52: What is a queue manager's default action when an application gets a message outside of syncpoint?

Question53: Which of the following commands can the administrator use to get a list of all authority records for a queue manager on Windows?

Question54: User1 has been given subscription permissions on topic MYTOPIC defined with the string TPC/SMC.
Which of the following actions can User1 perform?
User1 can subscribe on topic string:

Question55: The WebSphers MQ administrative responsibilities have been outsourced to another company. The outsourcing team is now responsible for finishing the migration of the company's existing WebSphere MQ V6.0 publish/subscribe infrastructure to a WebSphere MQ 7.0 publish/subscribe cluster infrastructure.
Which step would best allow them to assess which queue managers are left migrants?
For each queue manager in the publish/subscribe infrastructure:

Question56: A stepwise approach to moving the MQ publish/subscribe environment to V7.0 has been taken to minimize the impact to the publish/subscribe applications using the environment. As part of this stepwise approach there will be a mix of V6 and V7 brokers running at any one time.
What additional step must be taken to allow for the coexistence of both versions of the brokers?

Question57: Which option must be specified while creating a queue manager on Solaris in order to make it possible to recover damaged queue objects?

Question58: A company is running applications on several Windows servers installed with WebSphere MQ Server components. All the applications are sending data to a queue manager running on a Solaris machine.
How could the administrator redesign the infrastructure to reduce the overall licensing costs of the infrastructure?

Question59: An administrator was asked to start an application testapp.exe when the first message arrives on queue TEST.TRIGGER. The administrator runs the following MQSC commands:
DEFINE QLOCAL,(TEST.TRIGGER) + PROCESS (TEST.PROCESS) + TRIGGER + INITQ (IMIT.QUEUE)
+ TRIGDPTH (1) + TRIGMPRI (5) + TRIGTYPE (FIRST)
DEFINE PROCESS (TEST.PROCESS) + APLICID (testapp.exe)
DEFINE QLOCAL (INIT.QUEUE)
The administer then starts the trigger monitor on INIT, QUEU, and puts a message onto TEST.TRIGGER, but notices that the application testapp.exe does not start.
What could be the likely cause for testapp.exe not to start? (Choose two.)

Question60: What are the four predefined message types?

Question61: Refer to the Exhibit for the setup of queue managers in a company. An application connected to QMGR1 needs to send messages to queue QMGR3.LOCAL. The administrator creates the following definition on QMGR1:
DEFINE QREMOTE(QMGR3.REMOTE) +RQMNAME(QMGR3)+
RNAME(QMGR3.LOCAL) + XMITQ(QMGR2)
The application puts 7000 messages upon starting onQMGR3.REMOTE which results on a queue full condition on QMGR3.LOCAL. Where would the excess messages end up?

Question62: An application developer needs help understanding why a publishing application is failing when trying to publish on topic RE/Current/Bids.
What MQSC command can an administrator use to help diagnose the problem?

Question63: What are the steps an administrator needs to take to generate the runtime SSL trace files on HP-UX?

Question64: An administrator defines three topics on queue manager on AIX:
TAlpha with the topic string P/Q TBeta with the topic string P/Q/R TSigma with the topic string P/Q/R/S The administrator then grants authority to the topics as shown below.
User1 - Publish and Subscribe on TAlpha User2 - Publish on TBeta and Subscribe on TSigma.
Which of the following options are possible for the users to perform? (Choose two.)

Question65: An application is designed to send messages to queues Q1 and Q2 on queue manager QM1 using a server-connection channel CH1. An administrator is asked to implement SSL on IBM WebSphere MQ.
On which of the following objects does the administrator need to specify the SSLCIPH attribute?

Question66: A cargo transportation company is looking to take advantage of the publish/subscribe feature that WebSpher MQ V7.0 offers. They want share shipping information between regional offices and stores within a region. Each regional office only needs to know the shipping information in the stores within its region. The headquarters office however, would like to see the shipping information from each region. The regional offices do not need to communicate with the headquarters offices to continue doing business with the stores.
What is the best publish/subscribe topology to meet the company's needs?

Question67: Which of the following administrative features do TOPIC objects provide? (Choose two.)

Question68: An application publishes persistent stock quote messages every 5 seconds. The subscribers are only interested in the latest quotes. During the tests, it is found that the message delivery speed is slow.
In order to improve the application performance, which of the following actions is appropriate?

Question69: An administrator has been asked to create new subscriptions on queue manager QMGR1 in UNIX. The administrator issues the following MQSC commands:
DEF TOPIC(TOPICA) TOPICSTR(X/Y) DEF TOPIC(TOPICB) TOPICSTR(X/Y/Z)
The administrator then runs the following commands:
setmqaut m QMGR1 -t topic -n TOPICA -p User1 +sub setmqaut m QMGR1 -t topic -n TOPICB -p User2
+sub
Which of the following statements are true? (Choose two.)

Question70: An airline reservation system consists of three MQ queue managers. The following MQSC commands have been executed. An application for airline reservation connects to queue manager CANADA and puts a message to queue TORONTO.
QM: CANADA DEFINE QL(INDIA) USAGE(XMITQ) DEFINE QL(RESERVATIONS) DEFINE QL(DLQ) DEFINE CHANNEL(CANADA.INDIA) CHLTYPE(SDR)+ XMITQ(INDIA) CONNAME('9.84.100.7(1415)') DEFINE QR(BOMBAY) RQMNAME(INDIA) RNAME(RESERVATIONS)+ XMITQ(INDIA) DEFINE QALIAS (TORONTO) TARGET(BOMBAY) QM: INDIA DEFINE QL(CHINA) USAGE(XMITQ) DEFINE QL(RESERVATIONS) DEFINE QL(DLQ) DEFINE CHANNEL(CANADA.INDIA) CHLTYPE(RCVR) DEFINE QR(SHANGHAI) RQMNAME(CHINA)+ RNAME(RESERVATIONS) XMITQ(CHINA) DEFINE CHANNEL(INDIA.CHINA) CHLTYPE(SDR)+ XMITQ (CHINA) CONNAME('9.84.111.9(1416)') QM: CHINA DEFINE QL(RESERVATIONS) DEFINE QL(DLQ) DEFINE CHANNEL(INDIA.CHINA) CHLTYPE(RCVR) On which queue does the message end up?

Question71: A company decides to use the IBM WebSphere MQ transport for SOAP to enable some of its Java applications as WebServices on AIX. The administrator is asked to define and start a listener as a service.
Which one of the following methods should be used?

Question72: The operations team is taking responsibility for managing queue managers on an AIX development server.
The team wants to determine the security settings of each queue manager's channels.
Apart from checking for SSL configuration where else should they check?

Question73: What are the advantages of using queue-sharing groups in IBM WebSphere MQ?

Question74: The IBM MQ Supports has asked the administrator to recreate a problem on AIX with trace enabled.
What commands does the administrator need to run to collect a formatted trace?

Question75: The following command is executed using the JMSAdmin facility.
InitCtx> define Q(Q_IN) QMGR(QMGR1) QUEUE(Q1)
Which one of the following did the command create?

Question76: Which Eclipse version is a prerequisite to use MQ Explorer to administer IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 on Windows?

Question77: A bank application sends critical financial messages on a queue so that other applications can process them. In order to recover messages after a system failure, the messages need to be:

Question78: Which of the following would occur if an administrator ran the MQSC command REFRESH SECURITY TYPE(SSL)?

Question79: The administrator has to give authority for user test to browse messages in queue LQ on queue manager QM1. User test will be using MQ Explorer to browse the messages.
Which commands have to be executed to achieve this?

Question80: The administrator is required to give authority for user MQUSER to execute runmqsc control commands on Windows queue manager QM1. Which method can be followed to grant authority?

Question81: Queue managers QMGR1, QMGR2 and QMGR3 are members of cluster QC. An administrator created the following queues for an application:
On QMGR1: DEFINEQALIAS(TEST.ALIAS) + TARGET(TEST.LOCAL) + DEFBIND(OPEN) + DEFPSIST (NO) On QMGR2 and QMGR3: DEFINE QLOCAL(TEST.LOCAL) + CLUSTER(QC) + DEFBIND(OPEN) + CLWLPRTY(0) 1.CLWLRANK(0) +DEFPSIST(NO) The administrator verifies the setup by putting messages on TEST.ALIAS using the sample amqsput program but notices that all messages end up on the same queue manager (either QMGR2 or QMGR3).
What could be the likely cause?

Question82: An administrator has set up sender receiver channels between QMGR1 running on AIX and QMGR2 running on i5/OS. During verification testing, the administrator noticed that messages being sent from one queue manager are not visible on the other queue manager.
Which of the following files should the administrator look at to find the cause of the problem? (Choose two.)

Question83: A receiver channel was defined with MCAUSER set to blank and PUTAUT set to CTX. Which of the following statements is true?

Question84: An administrator has created a queue manager on AIX system A, using the command crtmqm ll QMA.
What command will create a backup queue manager for QMA on AIX system B?

Question85: An application sends messages into a queue which has multiple instances within a cluster. There are no requirements for message affinity and the default value is kept for the attribute DEFBIND on the queue definition.
In order to benefit from the workload management of clustering, what option needs to be specified on the MQOPEN call from the application?

Question86: As part of the planned migration from IBM WebSphere MQ V6.0 brokers to IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0, the publishing and subscribing applications have moved to IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 and all that is left are the brokers.
After IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 is installed, what actions do the IBM WebSphere MQ administrators need to take to complete the migration?

Question87: A queue manager QM1 on UNIX has an unrecoverable problem. The IBM Support Center has asked the administrator to send any FFST reports.
Which directory can an administrator get these FFST files from?

Question88: The administrator has been asked to install WebSphere MQ V7.0 in a Windows domain environment.
What unique step does the administrator need to take to complete this task?

Question89: An administrator created a queue manager Paint.queue.manager on AIX with circular logging. The administrator then was told that the system will be used for production, so the logging needs to be switched to linear.
How can the administrator make this change?

Question90: What object must be running to handle inbound connection requests to start receiver channels?

Question91: An administrator is migrating queue managers on both AIX and Solaris platforms from WebSphere MQ V5.3 to V70.
Which approach is the fastest to successfully migrate the queue managers?

Question92: QM2 and its objects have been recreated using the save queue manager definitions. The sender channel on queue manager QM1 is in retry status with an error message AMQ9526: Message sequence number error for channel 'QM1.TO.QM2'.
Which action will recover the channel?

Question93: An administrator needs to configure a queue manager to coordinate an applications DB2 database updates and message handling as global units of work.
How does the administrator configure the queue manager to use the switch load file db2swit on AIX?