About IBM Integration Bus , Solution Development

This intermediate-level certification is intended for solution developers who have the knowledge and experience to use IBM Integration Bus to develop, deploy, tune, and support platform-independent message flow applications that use various messaging topologies to transport messages between service requesters and service providers, as well as enable the messages to be routed, transformed, validated, and enriched during processing.

Prerequisite for the exam

There are no prerequisites for the exam.

Course Outline

1. Integration, Architecture and Design

• Explain the core architecture, components, and operating environment

• Define IIB topologies

2. Installation and Configuration of IBM Integration Bus

• Install IBM Integration Bus runtime and toolkit

• Validate the IIB environment

• Define database resources

• Define MQ resources

• Define Web Services Resources (WSRR)

3. Development of IBM Integration Bus Solutions

• Build integration solutions (application, service, and library)

• Build a message model

• Generate JavaScript client APIs from an existing integration service (high level)

• Build solutions with basic built in nodes

• Design and build transactional solutions with IBM Integration Bus

• Build solutions with time schedules

• Implement message transformations (graphical mapper, Java, ESQL and XSLT)

• Build integration solutions with patterns (using built in patterns and creating basic patterns)

• Build integration solutions with caching (Java, ESQL, mapping)

• Build applications using routing patterns (decision, pub/sub, collector, point to point, fan out, request/reply)

• Harden integration flows by handling exceptions

4. Extending IBM Integration Bus with Adapters and Other Products

• Integrate with JCA Adapters (high level)

• Integrate with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

• Integrate with Visual Studio

• Integrate with IBM Business Process Manager

• Integrate with Operational Decision Manager

5. Application Assembly, Configuration and Deployment

• Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between the use of projects, applications, and libraries

• Build and deploy applications using the Integration Toolkit and commands

• Use keywords in deployment properties

• Define and over-ride application properties using configurable services and user-defined properties

• Describe and explain the Web administration console

6. Troubleshooting and Tuning

• Test message flow with flow exerciser

• Use the debugger to locate and resolve problems

• Configure and use trace nodes in a message flow

• Configure and use user trace facility

• Understand logging in integration solutions

• Tune integration solutions with workload management and multi-threading

• Configure and use Record & Replay

• Gather and analyze message flow statistics and resource statistics

7. Security

• Describe and explain basic security

• Use the PEP Node