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

1. Tyson is the sole IBM WebSphere Portal administrator in his company. He has developed a portlet that uses content spots to bind certain portlet markup to users specific to a certain group accessing the portlet itself. What bindings can Tyson create to associate the users with the content spots to be shown?

A) He can use Personalization Rules based on user and group information, hiding and showing the content spots per each grouping as desired.
B) Portlets cannot include dynamic content spots.
C) He can store a personalization rule in the theme that creates a new version of the portlet for each user group automatically on first access,using the PortletClientModel and leveraging the PUMA UserGroup object
D) He can use the ContentPresentationModel to hide and show content spots based on any parameter included in the ContentPresentationResource and change the content spot based on the user's group

2. Evan wants to develop a portlet to act as a target using click-to-action. He wants to develop a client-side click-to-action handler. Which best describes the ways that he can get the source data submitted by the source portlet?

A) Either of the above.
B) He can retrieve the source data from the window.ibm.portal.c2a.event.value global variable.
C) He can retrieve the source form and the input inside from the page Document Object Model.
D) None of the above.

3. The JSR 286 Portlet Specification PLT.C appendix defines the Cascading Style Sheet classes for a variety of logical units in the markup. It follows the styles defined by the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets Technical Committee. What is the prefix used for the name of the CSS classes defined in this appendix?

A) portal- (for example portal-font, portal-form-field, portal-table-body)
B) portlet- (for example portlet-font, portlet-form-field, portlet-table-body)
C) css- (for example css-font, css-form-field, css-table-body)
D) wsrp- (for example wsrp-font, wsrp-form-field, wsrp-table-body)

4. A client named Rudy's Rocking Hot Rods sells high-end motor vehicles through its customized portal. When a user logs in, they are presented with several combinations of portlets and iWidgets. The user can select a car model, color, customize finishes, and perform other applicable actions. As part of a new development phase, the client has requested two updates: 1) Wire Portlet ABC to send an event to the iWidget XYZ. 2) Wire iWidget XYZ to send an event to the Portlet RSA. What option below is not correct, assuming all portlets on the page are JSR 286compatible?

A) When passing a mashup type from iWidget XYZ to Portlet RSA, which uses XSD types, that type must be manually converted because IBM WebSphere Portal does not provide an automatic type conversion mechanism.
B) If Portlet ABC uses a custom type defined as follows: org.za.StrongTypedthen the iWidget XYZ needs to have a corresponding payload definition as such:
C) If Portlet ABC defines a Java class in its portlet.xml under the element as "java.lang.String," it is able to pass that value to iWidgetXYZ.
D) iWidget XYZ will be able to receive events from Portlet ABC and send events to Portlet RSA.

5. Usha has developed a JSR 286 compliant portlet. She wants to use it on a WSRP producer so that it can be consumed by a remote IBM WebSphere Portal server. What changes if any should be made?

A) She does not have to make any changes.
B) She must set the enable WSRP portlet initialization parameter to true in the portlet.xml file.
C) She should change her portlet class to implement ServiceDescription and Markup interface.
D) She should change her portlet class to implement ServiceDescription, Markup, Registration and PortletManagement interface.

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