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

1. A client wants to write several portlets for their new website. Each portlet must be labeled and record some trace information whenever it is accessed. The portlets must share common information with each other as well. When discussing best practices options with the client, which of the following would not be recommended?

A) Each portlet can be labeled by its own title bar.
B) Trace information can be logged to log files.
C) JSPs should be used to separate output and functionality of the portlets.
D) Portlets communicate via writing to a common file in the root directory.

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

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

A) 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.
B) 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.
C) 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.
D) The login service can be used to trigger a form-based login to IBM WebSphere Portal from any portlet.

4. A software delivery executive, by the name of Fry, is developing a custom theme called Popplers. He has deployed the theme with six custom layouts (Lla, Zdb, Bdr, Amy, Pff and Hms) at dav:fstype1/themes/Popplers/layout-templates.
Over the past few days, he has been trying to scope three of these layouts (Lla, Zdb and Bdr) however, none of them are visible in the WebSphere Portal 8.0 Layout tab.
He has performed the following steps:

Refreshed browser's cache 4) Reloaded the page What is the problem with Popplers based on the information provided?

A) One cannot partially scope custom layouts in a theme. Just like the default Portal 8.0 theme, you must scope all defined custom layouts.
B) The last two steps are in the wrong order - perform step 4 first and then step 3 to solve the problem.
C) Step 1 is incorrect. Changing the URL value to ibmCfg.themeConfig.themeRootURI+"/system/layouts.json" will resolve the issue.
D) Step 2 is incorrect because layouts must be listed alphabetically - listing them as Bdr, Lla and then Zdb will correct the issue.

5. 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 init(Preferences servicePreferences) {
String message = servicePreferences.get("message",
"Hello");
}
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 sayHello(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response)
{
String message = request.getParameter("message");
}

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