IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 Solution Development Sample Questions:

1. Cheng is a registered user of his company's intranet portal. He accesses the portal by a web browser with a valid RememberMe cookie but he has not logged into the portal during the current session. How does the portal treat Cheng?

A) Unidentified and authenticated
B) Identified and unauthenticated
C) Identified and authenticated
D) Unidentified and unauthenticated

2. PreferencePortlet is Portlet Specification 2.0-compliant and the system is running IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0. What is the output of the following code? public PreferencePortlet extends GenericPortlet{ protected void processAction(ActionRequest actionRequest, ActionResponse){ actionRequest.getPreferences().setValue("test","ViewModePreferenceValue"); actionRequest.getPreferences().store(); } protected void doView(RenderRequest renderRequest, RenderResponse renderResponse) throws PortletException, IOException { // Generate action URL }

A) This code results in a compiler error because PortletPreference does not have the store() method.
B) The container throws java.lang.IllegalStateException because it is not allowed to change preferences in the processAction() method.
C) The code compiles and executes fine. It stores a "test" preference at the end of the processAction() method call.
D) The container throws javax.portlet.ReadOnlyException because it is only allowed to view preferences in the processAction() method.

3. Mr. Mosby is developing several different custom themes for the different brands his company offers. He's developed a custom theme WAR that provides the JSPs to be shared among the different themes. He has a JSP named brandNav.jsp and created a brandNav dynamic content spot that points to this JSP. However, for one particular theme he needs to use a different brandNav.jsp. Which one of the following is not a valid option?

A) Include the new JSP directly in the theme_xx.html and bypass the dynamic content spot
mapping:
<@include file="res:/CustomThemeContext/themes/html/MyTheme/custombrandNav.jsp" %>
B) Create a new Dynamic Content Spot pointing to the customBrandNav.jsp. Then modify the
theme_xx.html to use this new dynamic content spot.
C) Create an override in the themes metadata:key=com.ibm.portal.theme.brandNav
value="res:/CustomThemeContext/themes/html/MyTheme/custombrandNav.jsp"
D) Modify the theme_xx.html so that the html directly points to the new JSP:
href="res:/CustomThemeContext/themes/html/MyTheme/customBrandNav.jsp">

4. Which of the following options describes the rules created by selecting the Select Action rule type when creating a personalization rule?

A) Select Action rules send a personalized email to a set of users that is defined by another rule.
B) Select Action rules allow pages and portlets to be hidden based on conditions expressed in the rule.
C) Select Action rules return items of content from a resource collection based on conditions expressed in the rule.
D) Select Action rules return actions for a portlet based on conditions expressed in the rule.

5. On an ongoing basis, Ken wants to track status messages from an application that he is writing. Which one of the following options should he use as a best practice to make the status messages available?

A) He should write them to SystemError.log since they are status messages and could be considered errors.
B) He should use the standard Java logger at an "info" level since "info" is the default trace level for IBM WebSphere Portal server.
C) He should use the standard Java logger at an "error" level since they are status messages and could be considered errors.
D) He should write messages to to SystemOut.log since it is the easiest to implement.

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