IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0, Solution Design Sample Questions:

1. An application is replying to a request message, which has properties associated with it. What is the preferred way of creating a reply message?

A) Use action indicator in MQPMO, provide new MQMD for reply message and use MQPMO_NEW_MSG_ID in the MQPUT options.
B) Use action indicator in MQPMO and MQPMO_MD_FOR_OUTPUT_ONLY in the MQPUT options.
C) Reuse the MQMD and honor the report options set in the request message.
D) Create a new MQMD for the reply message and copy the MsgId from the request MQMD structure to the CorrelId field of the reply MQM

2. A company wants to improve the availability of their MQ JMS client applications by introducing multiple Queue Managers to process the MQ JMS client application requests. Which of the following are MQ capabilities that are available to JMS client applications for using multiple Queue Managers?

A) Specification of an alternate Queue Manager in the JNDI definition
B) Client channel definition table containing multiple Queue Manager definitions
C) Application coding to make an MQCONN call to the alternate Queue Manager when theprimary Queue Manager is not available
D) Client channel definition table with workload balancing of a certain weighting of the traffic toone Queue Manager and the rest of the traffic to an alternate Queue Manager
E) Workload balancing exit that comes with MQ

3. What is a particular advantage of designing a publish/subscribe application to use a managed subscription, when the subscription type is non-durable?

A) Any messages for this subscription will be managed by the queue manager, so they can beavailable if there are any subsequent subscribers.
B) The temporary dynamic queue used for the subscription will not be deleted by the queuemanager until the current depth of the queue is zero, and the subscribing applicationconnection is closed.and the subscribing application? connection is closed.
C) The temporary dynamic queue used for the subscription will be deleted, along with anymessages on it, when the subscribing applicationThe temporary dynamic queue used for thesubscription will be deleted, along with any messages on it, when the subscribing application'connection is closed. The temporary dynamic queue used for the subscription will not bedeleted by the queue manager until the current depth of the queue is zero.

4. Why should only privileged users be permitted to define alias queues?

A) A QALIAS can name another alias queue as its TARGET, which can potentially create aninfinite loop.
B) Users can bypass access control by creating a QALIAS.
C) An alias queue could have a remote queue for its TARGET.
D) There is no check if the TARGET is defined or not.

5. A Windows application using the WebSphere MQ client to connect to a Linux queue manager on a pSeries server receives messages originating from an iSeries system. The message data appears incomprehensible. Select the most likely explanation for this.

A) A message conversion exit was not provided.
B) Message conversion failed because an incorrect CCSID was specified in a MQCCSIDenvironment variable on the Windows system.
C) Message conversion was requested both on the sending channel agent and in the receivingapplication MQGET request, resulting in doubleMessage conversion was requested both onthe sending channel agent and in the receiving application? MQGET request, resulting indouble conversion.
D) No message conversion was requested in the receiving application MQGET request nor on thesending channel agent.No message conversion was requested in the receiving applicationMQGETrequest nor on the sending channel agent.

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