Certification Overview

This intermediate level certification is intended for system administrators (system integrators, infrastructure architects, application architects and solutions architects) who perform the installation, configuration and day-to-day tasks associated with ensuring the smooth, reliable, and efficient operation of an IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment environment.

This includes tasks related to:

1. Architecture

2. Product Installation, Configuration, and Maintenance

3. Application Management (Deployment and Configuration)

4. Administrative Tools

5. Security Configuration

6. Clustering and Workload Management

7. Intelligent Management

8. Performance Monitoring and Tuning

9. Problem Determination

This system administrator is generally self-sufficient and can perform most of the tasks involved in the role with limited assistance from peers, product documentation, and vendor support services.

Recommended Skills

Knowledge and foundational skills one needs to possess before acquiring skills measured on the certification test. These foundational skills are NOT measured on the test. For skills measured on the test, see Test Objectives.

• Basic Java Enterprise Edition knowledge

• Basic web application architecture and deployments

• Basic utilization of the command line interface and Jython/Jacl

• Understanding of operating systems

• Network and operating system security concepts

• Networking problem determination skills

• Operating system problem determination skills

This system administrator is generally self-sufficient and can perform most of the tasks involved in the role with limited assistance from peers, product documentation, and vendor support services. This system administrator is generally self-sufficient and can perform most of the tasks involved in the role with limited assistance from peers, product documentation, and vendor support services.