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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?
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Which one of the following WebSphere MQ Bridge for HTTP verbs is most similar to the MQI MQGET call with default MQGMO options?
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There are multiple instances of a cluster queue. Which of the following is recommended practice for the default binding (DEFBIND) parameter?
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A business requirement is brought forward for a back end server that is to send replies to requests sourced on the web and on internal application servers. The back end application will perform database lookups and formatting operations that are deemed trivial. Message sizes, traffic volumes and estimated annual growth rates are provided. The application designer is asked to provide a sizing estimate for a server that will be able to provide the response times stipulated in the SLA. Which is the fastest way to arrive at a reasonable estimate of the required server size?
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A weather bureau plans to offer a service to its customers whereby they can receive weather station information (e.g. temperature, humidity) up to one year old. Customer applications should be able to select from which region they want to get datA. What is the best way of implementing such a solution?
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Which one of the following statements is true about the use of message properties and message selectors?
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While trying to get messages from its input queue a program is receiving notification that no messages are available. However, the queue depth indicates that there are messages on the queue. Which of the following are possible explanations for this?
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Queue Managers QMA and QMB both have a cluster queue definition for Q1. A sending application resides on QMC, which is also part of the cluster. The messages being sent from QMC contain data from the same account that needs to be processed at the destination (Q1) in the same order that the messages were sent. Which one of the following is MOST LIKELY to enforce the sending order on the destination queue, assuming the message can be routed to the destination queue?
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Client applications are sending requests which are stored in a common queue. Each message might belong to one of three groups: A, B, or C. The receiving application has to process messages belonging to only one group and must also select messages by MQMD.MsgId. In addition, there are plans to add a department id as a searchable property. What is the BEST way of doing this?
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An application running on Unix is reading MQ messages that were created on z/OS and consist of multimedia content. A small percentage of the messages are large. The application should allocate a big buffer only when needed. The queue is opened with the MQOO_INPUT_EXCLUSIVE and the MQOO_BROWSE option. In addition to MQGMO_BROWSE_FIRST, which options should be used for getting messages?