C9550-273 IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.0 Integration Development

Number of questions: 53
Number of questions to pass: 33
Time allowed: 90 mins
Status: Live

The test consists of eight sections containing a total of 53 multiple-choice questions. The percentages after each section title reflect the approximate distribution of the total question set across the sections.

Section 1 – Installation and Configuration 6%
Use the Installation Manager to install and update the Integration Designer
Identify and select the configuration options required to install a Process Server test environment.
Use the Installation Manager to install and rollback fix packs.

Section 2 – Service Component Architecture (SCA) programming model and solution design 25%
Design and use interfaces.
Design and use business objects (including the business object framework API).
Demonstrate understanding of Service Component Architecture (SCA) concepts.
Effectively organize a solution into modules, mediation modules, and libraries taking into consideration component reuse, versioning, and application maintainability.
Determine the appropriate use of macroflows (long-running processes), microflows (short-running processes), and mediations.
Effectively use quality of service (QoS) qualifiers.
Demonstrate understanding of and apply performance considerations for business integration solutions, including business processes.
Configure dynamic invocation using selectors.
Implement Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) and audit logging in business applications.
Demonstrate understanding of Failed Event Manager (FEM) and recovering of events.

Section 3 – BPEL Development 15%
Design and implement Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) processes using the business process editor.
Use correlation sets in business process development.
Demonstrate understanding of transaction behavior (including parallel activities, scopes, and generalized flows).
Implement custom logic using the visual snippet editor and Java code.
Implement error handling and compensation within a business process.
Demonstrate understanding of the Process Center Console for its sharing and subscription model to develop generic artifacts allowing re-use.

Section 4 – Mediation Development 13%
Describe the Service Message Object (SMO).
Implement fault handling in mediation modules.
Develop mediation flows using the mediation flow editor.
Use mediation primitives and subflows in mediation flows.
Transform data using XML maps.
Design and implement subflows.
Perform common processing on messages through a service gateway.

Section 5 – Human tasks 11%
Distinguish the different types of tasks (including invocation, to-do, administration, and collaboration tasks).
Demonstrate an understanding of the appropriate use of inline and stand-alone tasks.
Apply people assignment criteria (including the use of work baskets).
Use follow-on tasks and subtasks.
Implement escalation and notification.
Define and develop Query tables for searching and filtering human tasks.

Section 6 – Connectivity and Integration 15%
Connect to the Process Center repository, discover Business Process Definition (BPD) processes, and invoke them through SCA components.
Use and configure technology adapters, including the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), FTP, email, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and flat file adapters.
Configure import and export bindings (for example, JMS, MQ, Web Services, HTTP, and SCA).
Demonstrate understanding of different SCA invocation styles between synchronous, asynchronous using one-way operations, asynchronous with callback, and asynchronous with deferred response.

Section 7 – Packaging and Deployment 6%
Use Process Center to manage assets and deploy process applications.
Demonstrate an understanding of the options for deployment of Service Component Architecture (SCA) applications.
Demonstrate an understanding of the artifacts generated in process applications and modules.

Section 8 – Testing and Troubleshooting 9%
Test business integration solutions using unit and integration tests.
Configure and use the integration test client tool to test components.
Use Business Process Choreographer (BPC) Explorer for testing and troubleshooting business processes and human tasks.
Use appropriate server trace and cross component trace (XCT) for problem determination.
Use the integration debugger to debug business integration components.

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Classroom Course
Course Title: Developing Applications for IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8 – I

Course Duration: 5 Days

Course Number: WB851G

Course Abstract: Please also see alternative option ZB851G (listed under “Online Courses”).

This 5-day instructor-led course teaches you how to use the tools in IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8 to build and deploy process integration solutions.

IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8 provides a comprehensive way to manage business processes by offering a suite of tools that support visibility, management, and automation with high quality of service. IBM Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus support a service-oriented architecture (SOA) by providing a platform for integrating business applications by using diverse technologies. IBM Process Center provides a scalable central repository and control center for organizing and managing process artifacts, applications, and services. IBM Process Server is a high-performance business process engine that orchestrates services within an SOA, and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus enables interaction between applications and services by using standards-based connectivity.

In this course, you learn the concepts, architecture, components, processes, and procedures that are required to develop and implement an integrated business solution by using a diverse set of WebSphere and IBM products. You learn how WebSphere Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) adapters supply connectivity to enterprise information systems (EIS). You learn how IBM Process Server enables business integration applications to define business logic and processes based on Web Services – Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), human tasks, and business rules. You also learn how IBM Process Server uses the Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) to centralize the runtime monitoring of various events that occur in business integration solutions and applications.

The course also teaches you how to implement a reusable Coach View by using a Coach user interface, and then invoke it through a BPEL process. You then learn how to use IBM Process Portal to collaborate with others to participate in processes and complete their work efficiently. In addition, this course covers how WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus provides mediation services for integration applications.

In the intensive hands-on lab exercises, you design, develop, and test a comprehensive business integration solution. You use a standards-based process design tool, IBM Process Designer, as part of the authoring environment to rapidly compose a process design. You use the IBM Integration Designer tool to create business integration solutions by using the Service Component Architecture (SCA) programming model, the Service Data Objects (SDO) data model, and the mediation flow programming model. You then manage your processes in IBM Process Center and deploy the integration application to IBM Process Server. You also test and debug the application.

Notes:

this course (incl. student notebook and student exercises) fully covers test objectives 1A, 1B, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F, 3A, 3B, 3D, 3E, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4F, 4G, 5A, 5B, 5D, 5E, 5F, 5G, 6A, 6B, 6D, 7C, 8B, 8D, 8E, 8F

this course (incl. student notebook and student exercises) partially covers test objectives 2I, 4D, 6C, 7A, 8A

this course (incl. student notebook and student exercises) does not cover test objectives 1C, 2A, 2G, 2H, 2J, 3C, 3F, 4E, 7B

Online course

Developing Applications in IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8 – I (SPVC)

NOTE: THIS IS AN ONLINE SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE. DO NOT MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THIS COURSE.

Self-paced virtual classroom (SPVC) courses provide the same deep technical content as WebSphere Education classroom courses, but allow you to learn on your own schedule. You can stop and start a self-paced virtual class as needed during the 60-day access period.

There is no live instructor for this course, so it might not be appropriate for students who require the guidance of a live instructor. In such cases, students should consider the alternative version of this course:
Classroom delivery: Developing Applications in IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8 – I (WB851)

Course Overview:

This 5-day self-paced course teaches you how to use the tools in IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8 to build and deploy process integration solutions.

IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8 provides a comprehensive way to manage business processes by offering a suite of tools that support visibility, management, and automation with high quality of service. IBM Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus support a service-oriented architecture (SOA) by providing a platform for integrating business applications by using diverse technologies. IBM Process Center provides a scalable central repository and control center for organizing and managing process artifacts, applications, and services. IBM Process Server is a high-performance business process engine that orchestrates services within an SOA, and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus enables interaction between applications and services by using standards-based connectivity.
In this course, you learn the concepts, architecture, components, processes, and procedures that are required to develop and implement an integrated business solution by using a diverse set of WebSphere and IBM products. You learn how WebSphere Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) adapters supply connectivity to enterprise information systems (EIS). You learn how IBM Process Server enables business integration applications to define business logic and processes based on Web Services – Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), human tasks, and business rules. You also learn how IBM Process Server uses the Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) to centralize the runtime monitoring of various events that occur in business integration solutions and applications.
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The course also teaches you how to implement a reusable Coach View by using a Coach user interface, and then invoke it through a BPEL process. You then learn how to use IBM Process Portal to collaborate with others to participate in processes and complete their work efficiently. In addition, this course covers how WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus provides mediation services for integration applications.

In the intensive hands-on lab exercises, you design, develop, and test a comprehensive business integration solution. You use a standards-based process design tool, IBM Process Designer, as part of the authoring environment to rapidly compose a process design. You use the IBM Integration Designer tool to create business integration solutions by using the Service Component Architecture (SCA) programming model, the Service Data Objects (SDO) data model, and the mediation flow programming model. You then manage your processes in IBM Process Center and deploy the integration application to IBM Process Server. You also test and debug the application.
Redbook

* Chapter 3, Page 35. IBM BPM 7.5 Performance Tuning and Best Practices:

Web Resource

Service gateway –

Inline and stand-alone human tasks:

“Fault raising in BPEL processes”

* “Migrating BPEL processes”

Integration Debugger:

Switching between simple and advanced mode

Asynchronous invocation –

* Deploying a module or mediation module

Best practice: Protect mirrored artifacts in toolkits

* Rules for sharing and archiving toolkits

Installing fix packs interactively,

Creating a Mediation Subflow,

Service Architecture Component programming

* Specifying event properties for component elements

Limitations of the MQ Binding –

“Overview of cross-component tracing”

* JMS Header Setter mediation primimitive properties

Choosing between long-running processed and microfilows:

Tuning WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files for better performance

Service Message Objects:

“Follow-on tasks”

Connecting Servies through and ESB:

Failed Event Manager –

Libraries

* Inline Schemas:

* “Transactional behavior of long-running BPEL processes”

Scenario: Developing a straight through process

Common Base Event Browser

Predefined people assignment criteria:

Event sequencing qualifier

Configurations page of the integration test client

Escalations –

SCA Programming Model Fundamentals

Generating an HTTP binding –

Outbound Processing

Opening the integration test client

“Correlating BPEL processes”

Endpoint lookup mediation primitive:

“BPEL process compensation”

“Configuring correlation sets”

Installing fix packs and interim fixes interactively

SMO Structure

” Tracing, logging, and error handling in mediation modules”

“Subtasks”

Binding-specific headers in a SMO:

* Invoking web services that require HTTP basic authentication –

“Jumping activities”

* Example: Extract a selected element of the input array to a single output

* Performance tuning of throughput-based SOA solutions for WebSphere Process Server:

* Rolling back fix packs

Mediation modules

Error handling in the mediation flow component:

Resolving modeling errors in generalized flow activities

* “Creating test suites with scenario-based test cases ”

Types of Human Tasks:

Working with generalized flow activities

Websphere MQ Bindings overview –

Composite query tables:

Overview
PartnerWorld Code: 15001603
Replaces PW Code: 15001602

Status: Live
This intermediate level certification is intended for integration developers responsible for the development of integration services for business process applications consistent with a service-oriented architecture (SOA). This certification focuses on application development with IBM Integration Designer V8.0 for deployment on IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.0.

Working with service components, interfaces and business objects, the developer builds integration solutions. In particular, the integration developer creates integration services utilizing Service Component Architecture (SCA) components in building business process applications.

During development and deployment, the integration developer may work closely with business analysts, application developers, business process management (BPM) developers, system administrators, application administrators and solution architects.

The following topics are NOT covered on this exam:
IBM Process Designer
Lotus Forms
WebSphere Business Modeler
IBM Business Monitor
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
WebSphere Operational Decision Management
IBM Blueworks Live

In addition to the integration developer, this certification is also relevant for application developers, business process developers, and system administrators.

To attain the IBM Certified Integration Developer – Business Process Manager Advanced V8.0 certification, candidates must possess the skills outlined under Recommended Prerequisites below and pass 1 test. To prepare for this test, based on the job role and test objectives, click the link to Test 000-273 below, and refer to the Test preparation tab.

Note: Approximately 50% of the test questions on Test C9550-273, IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.0, Integration Development are the same as on Test C9550-270, IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V7.5, Integration Development.
Recommended Prerequisite Skills

(Knowledge and skills one needs to possess before beginning to prepare for this job role certification; skills not measured on the test)

Experience with Java
Experience with Eclipse
Good understanding of web services/REST technologies
Good understanding of basic concepts of SOA
Basic understanding of XML and XPATH
Basic understanding of WebSphere Application Server
Basic understanding of Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition)

Requirements

This certification requires 1 exam

Exam Required:
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C9550-273 – IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.0 Integration Development

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QUESTION 1
An integration developer needs to implement a business process that will read data from one source database and write data to a separate target database. What action should the integration developer take while configuring the WebSphere Adapter for JDBC?

A. Configure a single inbound adapter to communicate with both databases. The use of an XA data source is optional.
B. Configure a single outbound adapter to communicate with both databases. An XA data source must be used to manage transactions across
both databases.
C. Configure one outbound adapter to read data from the source and a second outbound adapter to write data to the target. The use of an XA
data source is optional.
D. Configure one inbound adapter to read data from the source and one outbound adapter to write data to the target. An XA data source must be
used to manage transactions across both databases.

Answer: C

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QUESTION 2
An integration developer opens a process application in the IBM Integration Designer (IID) workspace. It contains a business data object CandidateData, a business process definition (BPD) CheckCandidateData and there is no integration service or toolkit dependency associated with this process application. Which artifacts related to the process application will the integration developer see in advanced mode when the process application is imported in the IID workspace? The CheckCandidateData BPD under:

A. Processes and a business object under Data, and no generated interfaces.
B. Processes, automatically generated interfaces under Interfaces, and a business object under Data.
C. Processes, automatically generated interfaces under Interfaces, a business object under Data, and an unimplemented integration service
under Advanced Integration Services.
D. Integration Logic, automatically generated interfaces under Interfaces, and a business object under Data.

Answer: B

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QUESTION 3
An integration developer is modeling a human interaction and is trying to decide what type of human task to use. What advice should be given to the integration developer when considering using an in-line human task? The integration developer should select the in-line human task if the task:

A. needs to call other services.
B. provides just another service.
C. needs access to process related information.
D. will eventually be called as an SCA module in the future.

Answer: C

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QUESTION 4
Because of a client’s physical topology, an integration service needs to be deployed to Enterprise Service Bus. An integration developer has created a mediation module for implementing the service integration. Which items can the integration developer use inside of this mediation module to implement the logic?

A. Long running processes, mediation flows, and dependencies to libraries.
B. Microflow BPEL processes, mediation flows, and dependencies to libraries.
C. Mediation flows, dependencies to libraries, Business Rules, and selectors.
D. Mediation flows, Java implementations, and dependencies to libraries projects.

Answer: D

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QUESTION 5
An integration developer uses the Process Center perspective to connect to a repository. The Process Center repository contains process applications and toolkits which members of the business development team designed. The integration developer has ProcAppA open in an Integration Designer workspace. In order to run the process application on the repository, the integration developer must: (choose two)

A. call the invoke operation on the interface.
B. create a new snapshot of the process application.
C. create a new SCA component to wrap the AIS service.
D. create a new import component which implements the interface.
E. copy the artifacts which were generated in the Integration Designer to the integration solution library.

Answer: A,D