A company is in the midst of a large SOA transformation initiative, and is looking to utilize Web Services protocols wherever possible. A solution designer would like to leverage the existing WebSphere MQ infrastructure and skills. The solution designer is instructed to provide guidance regarding platform coverage. Which of the following best meets both requirements and will allow the company to utilize a SOAP stack to process SOAP/MQ messages?

• A. All supported WebSphere MQ Platforms
• B. Supported Windows and UNIX based systems
• C. Supported UNIX Based systems only
• D. z/OS supported UNIX and Windows systems

When designing test scenarios for pre-production testing, it is good practice to closely match the production environment in its metrics in order to produce realistic runtime behavior. In this context, which of the following statements about WebSphere MQ logging capability BEST describes the role that logging considerationsIn this context, which of the following statements about WebSphere MQ' logging capability BEST describes the role that logging considerations play in quality assurance or user acceptance testing?

• A. It is important to run with exactly the same logging style and log file sizes as in production inorder to properly test the application behaviorIt is important to run with exactly the samelogging style and log file sizes as in production in order to properly test the application'sBehavior regarding the use of log space.
• B. Since changing the log file sizes requires a rebuild of the queue manager it is recommended tocreate the QA queue managers with as large a log space allocation as possible.
• C. Even with identical logging parameters it is difficult to simulate the exact load on the loggingsystem, since the actual requirements are accumulated across all concurrently runningapplications, including channels.
• D. As long as the same logging method (circular or linear) is used as in the productionenvironment, there will be no problems; the logging algorithms can handle unexpected loadsgracefully.

A customer has an environment where applications are frequently redeployed to different servers
to react to changing capacity needs. Which of the following will provide the best support for the affected applications to be moved?

• A. Affected applications will read configuration files from their local file system that are updatedby administrators to reflect the new locations of destination queues; they then have todynamically build the appropriate queue names before opening the queues.
• B. Affected applications will first connect to a central queue manager via the WMQ client interfacewhere they can find configuration information in a special queue; they then open theirrespective application queues accordingly.
• C. Affected applications will be linked with the MQ Client interface and will maintain connectionsto all affected queue managers simultaneously; they will then find the respective queues byquerying the queue managers.
• D. Affected applications will connect to default queue managers and use generic, locationindependent queue names only; a set of alias and remote queue definitions are used in thequeue managers to connect applications to where the real queues are at any point in time.Input queues need to move with the owning applications.

A company is porting a solution written in C to i5/OS (successor to OS/400) that will send orders to the Order Processing system, which is a WebSphere MQ application on z/OS. Which of the following configurations for the new solution on i5/OS provides the function needed for this scenario? The solution on i5/OS would run:

• A. as a standalone application, accessing a WebSphere MQ-enabled adapter on the mainframeto access the Order Processing system.
• B. only as a client, using the WebSphere MQ client on i5/OS to access the Order Processingsystem.
• C. as a client or full server, using either the WebSphere MQ client or a full WebSphere MQ serveron i5/OS to access the Order Processing system.
• D. only as a server, using the WebSphere MQ server on i5/OS to access the Order Processingsystem.

A solution designer is looking to implement a robust failover mechanism as part of a solution, and has decided on utilizing HACMP on AIX. What must be considered when designing the application?

• A. WebSphere MQ clustering should be utilized to cluster the queues between the two server nodes.
• B. The architecture should be designed to process duplicate transactions in cases where a failover needs to occur.
• C. The application needs to be designed to run on multiple servers, and needs to handle heartbeats between application instances.
• D. Application log and state information should be stored on shared disk.