IBM Assessment: IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 Solution Development Sample Questions:

1. The XYZ company has a custom portlet that provides access to data from the company's mainframe. Twice a day, the mainframe performs a batch process to update the data. During the batch process, the portlet cannot access the data. Which one of the following options allows Sara to hide the portlet during the batch processing times?

A) Use the Personalization editor to create a portlet visibility rule, then use the Page Layout editor to assign the rule to the portlet.
B) Use the Policy editor to create a portlet availability policy, then use the Page Layout editor to assign the policy to the portlet.
C) Use the Personalization editor to create a portlet visibility rule and to assign the rule to the portlet.
D) Use the Policy editor to create a portlet availability policy and to assign the policy to the portlet.

2. In the case of a processAction or serveResource call, what is the expected behavior if an action or resource parameter has the same name as a public render parameter?

A) The public render parameter takes precedence and overwrites the value of the action/resource parameter.
B) The public render parameter is ignored.
C) The public render parameter values must be the last entries in the parameter value array.
D) The public render parameter is appended with a unique identifier to distinguish it from the action/resource parameter.

3. Peter has a custom portlet skin that he wants to deploy to an IBM WebSphere Portal server. Which one of these steps can best be used to deploy his custom skin?

A) Place his skin project in the /installedApps//wps.ear/wps.war/skins folder and restart the server.
B) Use the 'uploadNewSkin' ConfigEngine task.
C) Use the 'installNewSkin' ConfigEngine task.
D) Use WebDav to deploy to the skinlist entry point.

4. Which is not a valid CSS style defined in the JSR 286 Portlet Specification?

A) portlet-a
B) portlet-msg-info
C) portlet-font
D) portlet-section-text

5. Which of the following statements is not a true statement about the Portlet Login service?

A) The login service can be used to retrieve a com.ibm.portal.um.User object representing the current user and providing the current user'sprofile attributes.
B) The login service can be used to change the default behavior in reaction to particular errors that might occur during the login, such asredirecting the user to a change password page if the user's password is expired.
C) The login service can be used to trigger a form-based login to IBM WebSphere Portal from any portlet.
D) The login service can be used to propagate information to the WebSphere Portal login, for example, in the javax.security.auth.Subject objectpassed on to the JAAS login.

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