IBM Certified System Programmer - IBM IMS Sample Questions:

1. A customer write-up on business processes includes a description of handling requests for new user identities or changes to identities. These processes are handled in different ways by different disciplines. For example, there is an RACF team to handle processing of RACF identities and a UNIX team to handle processing of UNIX identities. From a process standpoint, all these processes are documented. They allinvolve assessments and approval processes. The customer seems fairly happy with how these processes are running. They are however receiving complaints that the process of issuing identities and updating identities is slow. Which two value propositions might you present to this customer that relate to their situation? (Choose two.)

A) Introducing intrusion detection will help the customer more quickly determine if their various disciplines are under attack or not.
B) Automating the user provisioning processes can shorten the provisioning cycle, increase satisfaction, and reduce help desk calls.
C) Managing the user provisioning processes with an enterprise-spanning solution offers efficiencies and increases effectiveness.
D) Using automation to synchronize user information across platforms will reduce erroneous information and improve business and application processing.
E) Keeping these processes separate and distinct allows them to be focused on individually and have process improvements that are particular to each involved area (RACF, UNIX, etc.).

2. A customer is performing a disaster recovery test using the RESTORE SYSTEM utility. Where would the BSDS be recovered from in this scenario?

A) The image copy data set of the catalog and directory.
B) The SMS log copy pool backup.
C) The most current active log data set.
D) The second data set created from the last -ARCHIVE LOG command.

3. Click the Exhibit button.
In the exhibit, a customer has a two way data sharing group running with one internal coupling facility (ICF) and one external coupling facility (CF). The only CF structures allocated are the ones depicted in the exhibit. ICF1 is a volatile CF. No ARM policy is active. The customer experiences a power failure to CEC1. Which statement regarding the state of data sharing group DB2G is true?

A) Member DB2A will terminate, DB2B remains active and able to process work. Structure DB2G_SCA will be automatically rebuilt to the external CF.
B) Member DB2A will terminate but since this is a data sharing system, DB2B remains active and able to process work. DB2G_SCA will remain in CEC1 since it is in different partition than LPAR1.
C) Member DB2A will automatically be restarted on CEC2 and work will continue to be processed by both members.
D) Member DB2A and member DB2B both abnormally terminate and are unable to process work until restarted.

4. A customer has just migrated their DB2 system to V9 new function mode. They currently use the BACKUP SYSTEM utility and have optionally dumped the backup to tape. Which action should be performed to only use the system level backup that was taken to disk?

A) Use the TAPEDUMP(NORECSYS) keyword on the BACKUP SYSTEM utility when the backup is taken.
B) Set the RESTORE_RECOVER_FROMDUMP system parameter to NO.
C) Use the BACKUPTYPE(DASD) keyword on the RESTORE SYSTEM utility.
D) Run the DSNJU003 utility and modify the system point in time backup record to have DUMPSTATE=NONE.

5. A customer is planning on using system level point-in-time backup and recovery. DB2 uses two SMS copy pools with the names shown below: DSN$xxxx$DB DSN$xxxx$LG
What is the correct substitution for "xxxx" in the names shown above?

A) location name
B) group attach name
C) subsystem name
D) catalog alias

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