DB2 9 Family Fundamentals(000-730) - Q & A
Read and Download several question and answers for the IBM DB2 9 certification exam.
Section 1 - Planning (14%)
- Knowledge of restricting data access
- Knowledge of the features or functions available in DB2 tools (just tools that come with product - distributed +space - i.e., control center, configuration advisor, configuration assistant, command line processor)
- Knowledge database workloads (OLTP vs warehousing)
- Knowledge of non-relational data concepts (extenders)
- Knowledge of XML data implications (non-shreading)
Section 2 - Security (11%)
- Knowledge of DB2 products (client, server, etc.)
- Knowledge of different privileges and authorities
- Knowledge of encryption options (data and network)
- Given a DDL SQL statement, knowledge to identify results (grant/revoke/connect statements)
Section 3 - Working with Databases and Database Objects (17%)
- Ability to identify and connect to DB2 servers and databases
- Ability to identify DB2 objects
- Knowledge of basic characteristics and properties of DB2 objects
- Given a DDL SQL statement, knowledge to identify results (ability to create objects)
Section 4 - Working with DB2 Data using SQL (23.5%)
- Given a DML SQL statement, knowledge to identify results
- Ability to use SQL to SELECT data from tables
- Ability to use SQL to SORT or GROUP data
- Ability to use SQL to UPDATE, DELETE, or INSERT data
- Knowledge of transactions (i.e., commit/rollback and transaction boundaries)
- Ability to call a procedure or invoke a user defined function
- Given an XQuery statement, knowledge to identify results
Section 5 - Working with DB2 Tables, Views and Indexes (23.5%)
- Ability to demonstrate usage of DB2 data types
- Given a situation, ability to create table
- Knowledge to identify when referential integrity should be used
- Knowledge to identify methods of data constraint
- Knowledge to identify characteristics of a table, view or index
- Knowledge to identify when triggers should be used
- Knowledge of schemas
- Knowledge of data type options for storing XML data
Section 6 - Data Concurrency (11%)
- Knowledge to identify factors that influence locking
- Ability to list objects on which locks can be obtained
- Knowledge to identify characteristics of DB2 locks
- Given a situation, knowledge to identify the isolation levels that should be used