The business wants to alert administrators and business owners to any service disruptions as soon as possible. This is to include any applications that receive request messages on input queues and have to respond to them as quickly as possible. The ideal solution will not introduce significant overhead to the environment. The WebSphere MQ solution designer is asked to evaluate the available features in WebSphere MQ that can be used to address this requirement.
Which of the following is the most responsive mechanism to address outages as soon as they develop?

• A. Trace Route messages
• B. Queue service interval events
• C. Queue depth events
• D. Activity Recording

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. 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.
• 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. 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.
• 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 company utilizes virtualization technologies and frequently moves workloads between servers and data centers. A WebSphere MQ solution designer is attempting to plan the MQ naming standards, and wants to provide for the greatest level of architectural flexibility and portability. Which of the following is NOT a recommended best practice to meet these goals?

• A. Use a configuration file for the application which contains the environment specific queuenames.
• B. Use alias queues and/or model queues with the application configuration.
• C. Use full uppercase for all objects and avoid forward slash (/) and percent (%) specialcharacters, to prevent portability issues.
• D. Use generic names for MQ objects inside applications to avoid hard-coding the actual names.

A solution designer wants to select a WebSphere MQ Publish/Subscribe architecture that does not have a single point of failure. Which one of the following would be the best topology to choose?

• A. Hierarchical
• B. Parent/Child
• C. Point-to-Point
• D. Clustered

Which of the following is NOT a generally recommended best practice for naming conventions?

• A. When possible, avoid forward slash (/) and percent (%) special characters because they cancause cross-platform difficulties.
• B. Queues should not have the word QUEUE in their name, nor should they have the topology inthe name (local, remote, alias, etc).
• C. Use full uppercase for WebSphere MQ objects, including the queue manager, to preventportability issues in heterogeneous environments.
• D. Queue and channel names should be limited to less than 24 characters because of platformportability concerns.