About Exam

• Architecting a Portal Solution 
• Install, Set up and Configure the Development Environment 
• Write a portlet 
• Backend Portlet Services 
• Testing and Debugging a Portal Solution 
• Additional Portlet Concepts

Exam Objectives

Architecting a Portal Solution

1. Develop themes, skins and screens
2. Identify portal dependencies on existing software
3. Search the IBM Workplace Solutions catalog
4. Size the custom portlets that have to be written
5. Use out-of-the-box portlets

Install, Set up and Configure the Development Environment

1. Debug a portlet on a local server
2. Diagnose problems with development environment installation
3. Identify Software Requirements
4. Optimize development environment
5. Understand software prerequisites (including compatibility questions)

Write a portlet

1. Ajax basics
2. Compile and package a WAR file
3. Describe the portlet life cycle
4. Develop Portlet applications utilizing Portlet JSR 168 API core objects
5. Effectively use JSPs to supply portlet rendering markup
6. Effectively utilize portlet configuration and state objects to control portlet behavior
7. Effectively utilize portlet modes and states
8. Embed references to resources within a portlet
9. Implement action processing
10. Make effective use of portlet application wizards
11. Support multiple locales, clients and devices within a portlet application
12. Support multiple markup
13. Use APIs to forward and redirect URLs
14. Wiring cooperative portlets
15. Work with portlet deployment descriptors (caching)

Backend Portlet Services

1. Configure and access application-specific data sources
2. Create a portlet service
3. Implement cooperative portlets
4. Use a portlet service
5. Use Service Data Objects (SDO) tooling to enable access to remote systems
6. Use the credential vault service

Testing and Debugging a Portal Solution

1. Debug a portlet on a local server
2. Debug a portlet using WebSphere Portal remote
3. Set up portlet parameters
4. Troubleshoot portlet applications

Additional Portlet Concepts

1. Implement personalization within portlet application
2. Use struts concepts within the portal framework and JavaServer Faces
3. Use the business process engine (bpe) API
4. Using Content Manager APIs
5. Work with composite applications/templates