IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 Solution Development Sample Questions:

1. Evan needs to share action URL parameters used in a portlet with another portlet. In the binding section of the WSDL files used for specifying a portlet's participation with the property broker, an action URL parameter can be bound to several scopes. Which one of the following options best describes the scopes that Evan can use to share the action URL parameters using the property broker?

A) Request attribute, Request parameter, or Session attribute
B) Request parameter or Session attribute
C) Session attribute only
D) Page attribute, Request attribute, Request parameter, Session attribute

2. Emery is trying to make it so users from a specific geographic location do not have access to a specific metrics application hosted on their IBM WebSphere Portal server. Which of the following options is provided within WebSphere Portal that Emery can use to this purpose?

A) Emery can use the call to ensure the portlet is hidden for thegeography to block.
B) None of the above. Emery is going to need to create a page and assign metadata parameters to hide the specific portlet from users fromgeographies that are not allowed to see it.
C) Emery's users must register as being from a specific geography and Emery can develop workflow methods leveraging thePortalUserIdentityBean (or PUIB) object to ensure the portlet does not generate markup for the user in this geography.
D) Emery can use Personalization Rules to hide the portlet, leveraging information in the user repository regarding the user's geographiclocation.

3. When creating and registering a custom portlet service, it is possible to set initialization parameters. What code would Adrienne use to access a parameter with the name sample.portletservice.HelloServiceImpl2.message?

A) public void sayHello(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response)
{
String message = request.getParameter("message");
}
B) public void sayHello(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response)
{
String message = request.getAttribute("message");
}
C) public void init(Preferences servicePreferences) {
String message = servicePreferences.getInitParam("message",
"Hello");
}
D) public void init(Preferences servicePreferences) {
String message = servicePreferences.get("message",
"Hello");
}

4. Which one of the following statements is valid regarding credential objects?

A) Credential objects are serializable.
B) To create a slot for storing active credentials, set the active parameter of the CredentialVaultService.createSlot method to true.
C) Passive credential objects hide the credential's secret from the portlet.
D) Portlets that use active credential objects need to extract the secret from the credential to authenticate with the backend.

5. Bill is developing a mail portlet. One of the requirements of the mail portlet is that it should prompt the user for a user name and password on the first access, then store that information in the credential vault. After that, the mail portlet should read the credential from the credential vault and use it for logging in to the external application. Which type of credential slot should Bill use?

A) System slot
B) Shared user slot
C) Portlet private slot
D) Administrative slot

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