An organization has a widely distributed online environment, where applications are connected via WebSphere MQ messaging. A business requirement is brought forward that certain mission critical applications record audit trail data which is to be collected in a central location. No information can be lost. A central data warehouse must be loaded daily with this information as soon as possible after end of business. Which of the following proposed solutions is best in terms of the requirement, reliability and overall performance? The audit trail data is:

• A. inserted into a local database table under two phase commit using WebSphere MQ as the transaction manager and a bulk update is performed at end of day.
• B. written to a file on the local file system and transmitted to the central audit trail server via reliable file transfer over WebSphere MQ.
• C. sent as a persistent WebSphere MQ message and forwarded to the queue manager of the central server asynchronously.
• D. inserted into a central database table via a remote access database client under control of the local WebSphere MQ transaction.

A customer has an environment where applications are frequently redeployed to different servers
to react to changing capacity needs. Which of the following will provide the best support for the affected applications to be moved?

• A. Affected applications will be linked with the MQ Client interface and will maintain connectionsto all affected queue managers simultaneously; they will then find the respective queues byquerying the queue managers.
• B. Affected applications will first connect to a central queue manager via the WMQ client interfacewhere they can find configuration information in a special queue; they then open theirrespective application queues accordingly.
• C. Affected applications will connect to default queue managers and use generic, locationindependent queue names only; a set of alias and remote queue definitions are used in thequeue managers to connect applications to where the real queues are at any point in time.Input queues need to move with the owning applications.
• D. Affected applications will read configuration files from their local file system that are updatedby administrators to reflect the new locations of destination queues; they then have todynamically build the appropriate queue names before opening the queues.

An application is being designed which will send updates about customers to different applications. Given the sensitive nature of the data, the sending application needs to manage which applications receive the datA. Which of the following is the best solution to ensure this?

• A. All applications should listen on the same queue and after processing the message shouldupdate its header so the last application process can remove it from the queue
• B. Each application should have its own queue on which it will listen for updates
• C. Apply the publish-subscribe paradigm (one-to-many).
• D. All receiving applications should listen on the same queue and the sending application shouldsend separate copies of the message with attributes which allow the receiving applications tosearch the queue for their own copies.

A WebSphere MQ application needs to connect to multiple Queue Managers at the same time. In which environment(s) is this an option?

• A. (A) and (C)
• B. IMS
• C. Client applications
• D. CICS

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