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TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Service-Oriented Architecture

This test will certify that the successful candidate has the requisite knowledge and skills necessary to design and oversee the implementation of SOA style architecture implemented using TIBCO products.

Exam Details 

  • Exam: Exam: TB0-115
  • Number of exam questions: 58
  • Exam duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
  • Percentage correct to pass the exam: 65%

Audience

Successful candidates will be able to take an end-to-end business process description of moderate complexity and architect the end-to-end solution, using accepted TIBCO and industry best practices, including end-point systems, TIBCO ActiveMatrix Product suite, adapters, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service. Moderate complexity business processes contain an end-point system that initiates the transaction, and a limited number of interactions with back-end systems. Successful candidates will be able to assist in the architecting of end-to-end solutions for complex business processes employing workflow and complex event processing given appropriate high-level guidance and design patterns by the enterprise architecture team.

Additionally, successful candidates will be able to:

  • independently specify the artifacts to be generated in the design process and the deployment patterns to be used in development, test, and production
  • independently design scalable, fault-tolerant and high-availability business processes using a variety of industry-standard and TIBCO-specific techniques. The candidate will be able to independently determine how the load balancing, fault tolerance and high availability of individual components should be used to achieve overall business process scalability, high availability and fault tolerance
  • encapsulate the functionality of the transaction as an operation of a service implemented in ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks. He or she will be able to create, deploy, and utilize the SOAP service using WSDL in both UDDI and non-UDDI environments
  • define, deploy, and utilize policies for authentication, authorization, and encryption in both the TIBCO ActiveMatrix and supported external environments using TIBCO Policy Manager and associated management agents
  • take an end-to-end solution or service lifecycle process definition and implement the governance of that process using the TIBCO Lifecycle Governance suite

Successful candidates will also have the experiences and have mastered the topics outlined below.

Recommended General Experience

Bachelor's degree in computer science or software engineering or equivalent work experience, and will have served four years or more as technical design lead, two years architecting distributed systems, and at least three years experience in design or development of distributed systems.

Product Specific Experience

Candidates should have at least two years experience designing message-based distributed systems using TIBCO products. It is recommended that candidates pass both the TB0-114: TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ 5 and TB0-112: TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™ 5 certification exams and attend the corresponding training courses.

Exam Topics and Objectives

  • SOA Concepts
    • Concepts
      • Define the concept of a service and its characteristics
      • Describe how services are accessed, used and managed
  • SOA and Other Related Standards
    • Standards
      • Explain the significant standards and their usage in an SOA implementation.
  • General Architecture Practices
    • Modeling
      • Given a scenario, identify the appropriate modeling representations and design patterns.
    • Architecture
      • Describe the process for creating and validating an SOA architecture
  • Services and Solutions with TIBCO ActiveMatrix® SOA Technology
    • Products
      • Select appropriate TIBCO products for a given scenario
      • Describe the critical features of TIBCO products and how to tune and configure them to implement a TIBCO ActiveMatrix® SOA solution
    • Construct TIBCO ActiveMatrix® SOA Solution with TIBCO Products
      • Define the infrastructure and infrastructure services required to support a TIBCO ActiveMatrix® SOA implementation
      • Explain the best practices for implementing services
      • Describe the stages in constructing and deploying services and TIBCO ActiveMatrix® SOA solutions utilizing them
      • Analyze the business requirements and design a suitable logical TIBCO ActiveMatrix® SOA architecture
  • Enterprise Services for Mission Critical Applications
    • Scalability
      • Given a scenario, apply the appropriate approach for scaling services implemented using TIBCO products
    • High Availability
      • Given a process definition scenario, select the appropriate fault tolerant design to make the process highly available
    • Transactions
      • Given a process definition scenario, identify the appropriate use of transactions
    • Service Level Agreements (SLA)
      • Define the different SLA measures and identify their impact on the service design
    • Site Disaster Recovery
      • Explain metrics (such as Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective) and approaches for site disaster recovery
  • Service Life Cycle and Governance
    • Runtime Policies
      • Given an application scenario and runtime security, routing, audit, and SLA monitoring requirements, define optimal runtime policies and the TIBCO components required to implement them.
    • Governance
      • Explain the purpose and rationale for the solution and service life cycle governance process and checkpoints
      • Explain how the management of a life cycle can be implemented with TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Life Cycle Governance
      • Explain the purpose and content of a service specification and service contracts
    • Service Identification
      • Identify and qualify service opportunities.
    • Change Management
      • Specify the change management mechanisms required for versioning services and migrating service components across environments.

Suggested Reading List

  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database Concepts Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database Configuration and Deployment Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Getting Started Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Concepts Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process Design Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix Release 2  Concept’s Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix Release 2  Composite Editor User's Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix Release 2  Policy Manager User’s Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix Release 2  Service Bus Getting Started Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix Release 2  Service Grid Getting Started Guide
  • TIBCO ActiveMatrix Release 2  Service Performance Manager User’s Guide
  • TIBCO Administrator User’s Guide
  • TIBCO Enterprise Messaging Service User’s Guide
  • Hewlett-Packard SOA Registry Foundation
  • Hewlett-Packard SOA Systinet Concepts Guide
  • Hewlett-Packard SOA Systinet User Guide 

*Documentation & manuals for TIBCO products are available through the TIBCOmmunity.

Standards Reference URLs

Recommended Courses and Knowledge Assessments

  • ARC601: Architecture Essentials of Distributed Systems *
  • ARC602: Architecting a TIBCO® SOA *
  • ARC601 Knowledge Assessment
  • ARC602 Knowledge Assessment

*Course materials may only be obtained by attending the course(s).
View details about Courses, Knowledge Assessments, and Class Schedules

Recommendations for Further Reading

  • Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture by Paul C. Brown
  • Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice by Paul C. Brown
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design, by Thomas Erl
  • Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services, by Thomas Erl
  • Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More, by Sanjiva Weerawarana, Francisco Curbera, Frank Leymann, Tony Storey, and Donald F. Ferguson

All five books are available from either Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

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