IBM MQ V8.0, System Administration

1.An application using the WebSphere MQ classes for JMS encountered an error. A First Failure Support
Technology (FFST) file has been created named JMS0001.FDC.
Which default directory should the system administrator review?

2.On a Sun Solaris system, applications cannot connect to a queue manager QM1 and are getting reason
code 2009 MQRC_CONNECTION_BROKEN.
a.What are the command(s) a system administrator can issue to check the queue manager status?
b.If the queue manager does not end with the endmqm –i command, what does the system administrator
need to do to be able to restart the non-responsive queue manager?

3.A system administrator cannot start a queue manager QMA on AIX and has been requested by IBM
Support to provide an MQ detailed early trace. There is only one installation on this system with two
queue managers, QMA and QMB.
To capture an early detailed trace, which command does the system administrator need to issue before
trying to start the QMA queue manager?

4.IBM MQ for z/OS recovery routines experienced an issue which resulted in an X’5C6” abend.
What type of dump needs to be investigated by the system administrator if no dump location has been
specified by JCL?

5.A financial company is having a problem with IBM MQ on their development system. The queue
manager is not down, but the new application keeps failing and MQ generates FDC files. This problem is
significantly affecting the business as they could miss the project deadlines.
The system administrator needs to open a Service Request (SR) to report the problem to IBM.
What should be the severity of the SR raised by the system administrator?

6.A client application with IP address 10.2.2.2 connecting to a queue manager needs to be blocked for
security purposes.
Which command does system administrator need to run to block this client application?

7.An application needs to clear a local queue using PCF commands. The application is getting reason
code 2035 MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED. Channel authentication records are disabled.
What are the minimum required permissions a system administrator needs to assign to the application
users?

8.A system administrator is determining the route that a message takes through a large network of queue
managers. Trace route messaging has been enabled on the queue managers. Messages are being
generated and delivered to the local queues on each queue manager in the network.
What can the system administrator do to make the collection of trace-route reply messages more
efficient?

9.A system administrator of a z/OS queue manager expects to have 1000 client channels connecting with
the queue manager at the same time.
What should system administrator do to tune the channel initiator to handle this work?

10.A system administrator needs to collect monitoring data on an AIX system for performance analysis
purposes. The system administrator needs to find out how many messages are put on and retrieved from
a queue, and the total number of bytes that the queue processes during a configured interval.
How can the system administrator enable the collection of the required data and set the interval to 15
minutes?

11.A system administrator would like to capture accounting and statistics data to analyze performance of
channels across multiple platforms.
Where can the system administrator capture the data?

12.An MQI Client application, which is run from different client machines, wants to benefit from the read
ahead performance advantages for non-persistent messages.
While the client programs are changed on some machines to specify the MQOO_READ_AHEAD option,
some other machines have to run the existing client application code without that option for a certain
period of time.
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What must the system administrator configure to support the coexistence of the two different versions of
the client application?

13.A system administrator needs to tune a SVRCONN channel for performance. Currently, the channel
shared conversation attribute, SHARECNV, has the default value.
To ensure performance enhancement, including the V8.0 distributed server performance improvement,
what value does the system administrator need to set the SHARECNV attribute to?

14.A client application receives en error MQRC_Q_FULL indicating that the queue is full. The
administrator sets the queue properties for queue depth max events (QDPMAXEV) to ENABLED.
Which setting must the system administrator configure at the queue manager level and which queue does
the system administrator need to monitor for event messages?

16.A system administrator is planning to enable events when queue manager objects are created,
changed or deleted.
Which events should the system administrator enable?

17.A user reports that the message was put to queue QUEUE1, but an application receives
MQRC_NO_MSG_AVAILABLE when it tries to get the message.
Which command can the system administrator use to check both the current depth of QUEUE1 and
whether there are uncommitted messages?

18.A system administrator needs to generate report messages that show the sequence of MQI calls that
an application sends.
What must the system administrator to do generate these messages?

19.The connection status is ‘Disconnected’ for a Remote Queue Manager in the MQ Explorer. An attempt
to connect to the Remote Queue Manager results in an error:
Command server not responding within timeout period. (AMQ4032)
Which MQSC command should the system administrator use to check if the command server is running?

20.QUEUE1 has messages from an uncommitted unit of work.
Which command can the system administrator use to find the name of the application connected to
QUEUE1?

21.An application puts a batch of messages onto a local queue for processing multiple times during the
day. The system administrator needs to determine the size of the messages put to the queue.
What type of monitoring does the system administrator need to enable and which value needs to be
reviewed by the system administrator that indicates the size of the messages put?

22.A system administrator migrated IBM MQ for z/OS from V7.1 to V8.0.
What operation mode allows the system administrator to backward migrate an existing queue manager?

23.A system administrator receives request to install IBM MQ V8.0 as a second installation on a server
where IBM MQ V7.0.1.3 is running. Both the product versions need to co-exist.
What should the system administrator do first to ensure both versions will run without impacting each
other?

24.A system administrator is preparing for a multi-instance queue manager configuration and has run the
amqmfsck command.
What does a positive report from the command amqmfsck tell the system administrator?

25.A system administrator has been given a task to install IBM MQ V8.0 on an AIX system which already
has WebSphere MQ V7.5 on it. The system administrator wants to set a specific installation name for the
second copy.
How can the system administrator do this?

26.A system administrator is planning to use IBM MQ V8.0 to process transactions requiring media and
restart recovery.
How can the system administrator implement this requirement?

27.A system administrator needs to design a solution for transferring confidential data from a financial
institution that is using MQ network to another institution that is using non-MQ network and FTP/SFTP
protocols. The data must be protected while the messages are on the queues on the MQ network and
during the transfer.
How can the system administrator do this?

28.IBM MQ will be installed into a multi-instance queue manager environment. After defining the shared
file system, the system administrator created the queue manager QMA on the first server.
How can the system administrator create the second queue manager in order for it to be the standby instance?

29.After a system crash, a system administrator tried to start queue manager QM1, but it failed with this
error:
AMQ7047: An unexpected error was encountered by a command.
In the queue manager error log, this error was reported:
AMQ7472: Object QM1, type catalogue damaged.
The queue manager was using linear logging.
The system administrator needs to recover the queue manager. How can the system administrator do
this?

30.A z/OS batch application called ORDRPROC processes order messages. Each message is 30 to 40
KB in size. In the past, a non-shared local queue was used and the application was always run on the
same single LPAR.
As part of a 24/7 high availability project, the queue is to be converted into a shared queue, so the
processing can take place on any of four LPARs, but it is critical that the messages are processed by only
one instance of the batch server program at a time.
The shared queue is to use an existing Coupling Facility structure named BATCHMSGS which is
configured to offload messages larger than 24 KB to shared message data set (SMDS).
In addition to setting QSGDISP(SHARED), which attributes (amongst others) must the system
administrator use within the define QLOCAL command for the new shared queue to support these
requirements?

31.A system administrator has migrated a z/OS queue manager from a previous version to V8.0.0. Which
action does the system administrator need to take to implement the larger 8-byte Relative Byte Address
(RBA) for the active logs?

32.An existing JMS Client application is to make use of the Automatic Client Reconnect feature without
changing the application code.
Where must the system administrator activate the automatic reconnect option for the JMS client
application?

33.A system administrator installed IBM MQ V8.0 on AIX. Business rules require complete recovery of
messages on queues to avoid data loss and a quick restart of IBM MQ V8.0 to minimize messaging
outages.
What must the system administrator to do make MQ compliant with these business rules?

34.A queue-sharing group on z/OS consists of three queue managers: QM1, QM2, and QM3. After an
unexpected failure, QM2 cannot be restarted. A system administrator needs to find out if there are any
indoubt threads that need to be recovered manually.
What command should the system administrator run on QM1 to see the indoubtthreads.

35.A system administrator created a program to monitor the queue manager using Programmable
Command Format (PCF) commands. The program reported an invalid format error in the message
header when the system administrator ran the program.
To correct the invalid program error, which message format should the system administrator specify in the
QMD Header?

36.IBM MQ servers were installed on both AIX and IBM i with one queue manager on each server. A
system administrator will administer both queue managers from MQ Explorer.
What must the system administrator verify to ensure that the MQ Explorer connects to both queue
managers?

37.A system administrator needs to know whether the elapsed time between a put and a get operation on
a queue is greater than 10 milliseconds.
What can system administrator do to get this information?

38.A system administrator was asked by an application team to find out when their queue manager
running on IBM i System was started.
Which Command Language (CL) command should the system administrator run?

39.A system administrator is using the MQ-supplied Dead Letter Queue Handler program. The system
administrator needs to ensure that the dead-letter queue does not fill up and the messages that cannot be
requeued to their original destination are moved to a queue named ‘SYS4.DEAD.QUEUE.MANUAL’, with
the dead-letter header included in the message.
Which final rule in the dead-letter queue rules table input should the system administrator use?

40.A system administrator needs to check the settings of a channel definition table on a client system that
has only MQ client software installed.
How can the system administrator check the local channel definition table on the client system?

41.A system administrator needs to ensure IBM MQ is at the Fix Pack 8.0.0.2 level.
a.What command should the system administrator use to find out the current version of IBM MQ?
b.If the current IBM MQ version is 8.0.0.0, which Fix Pack(s) need to be installed to upgrade it to 8.0.0.2?

42.The security exit code for a RECEIVER channel has been modified.
What does the system administrator have to do to activate the changed security exit with minimum impact to the running systems?

43.There is a requirement to create a development queue manager on AIX with authorization checks
disabled.
How can a system administrator do this?

44.A system administrator needs to ensure that the users of a particular SVRCONN channel provide
a user ID and password while other SVRCONN channels may continue to work unauthenticated.
How can the system administrator do this?

45.For a queue manager with CHLAUTH(DISABLED), the AUTHINFO has been defined as follows:
DEFINE AUTHINFO (‘CHECK.PWD’) AUTHTYPE (IDPWOS) CHCKCLNT (REQUIRED) ADOPTCTX
(NO)
A developer tried to test the connection by setting the MQSAMP_USER_ID to “user1” setting the
MQSERVER environment variable, and running the amqsputc sample program. The developer logon ID,
“user2”, has no access to the queue manager, but “user1” has all the required access.
When the developer ran amqsputc, it prompted for a password. The developer provided a valid password
for “user1”, but amqsputc failed with the MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED 2035 reason code.
What did the system administrator identify as the cause for the 2035 reason code?

46.A new local queue named ACCOUNTQ has been created on queue manager QMA to be used by a
client application. The application user is ‘appusr’ who will be required to browse and destructively read
messages, and to query queue attributes. The MQ server runs on an AIX host.
Which command does a system administrator need to run?

47.A channel connection between two queue managers, QM01 and QM2, on different machines is to be
secured by mutual SSL/TLS authentication.
After a key repository and a self-signed certificate have been created for both queue managers, what
does the system administrator have to do next?

48.A system administrator has set up the MQ infrastructure in a company as shown below: There are
three queue managers QMGR1, QMGR2 and QMGR3. QMGR2 and QMGR3 are part of a cluster
MYCLUS. QMGR1 and QMGR2 are connected using sender-receiver channels using QMGR2 as the
transmission queue.
As part of a new requirement, the system administrator creates the following definitions QMGR1
defqr(MQ8QM.REMOTE) RNAME (MQ8QM.LOCAL) RQMNAME (MQ8QM) XMITQ QMGR2: defqr
(MQ8QM) RQMNAME (QMGR3) defqlocal (MQ8QM.NEW) QMGR3: defqalias (MQ8QM.LOCAL) target
(MQ8QM.NEW) defqlocal (MQ8QM.NEW) The system administrator tests the connectivity by putting a message on MQ8QM.REMOTE on QMGR1 using IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer. Where does the message end up?

50.While monitoring a message queue, a system administrator finds a continuous growth of unused topic
node subscriptions on a queue manager.
Which parameter should the system administrator decrease to reduce unwanted topisc?

51.On a Linux system, a system administrator needs to define transmission queue QL1 to trigger channel
QMTOKYO.TO.QMNEWYORK, using initiation queue QL.INITQ.
Which command should the system administrator use to create the QL1 definition?

52.Application A is connected to a queue manager that is named QM1. Application B is connected to a queue manager that is named QM2. The messages that Application A puts to a queue on QM1, must be transferred to QM2 only when QM2 notifies QM1 that it is ready to receive the messages. What channels must the system administrator create on QM1 and QM2 to support this topology?

53.A system administrator has defined a queue manager cluster, CLUS1, consisting of three queue
managers QMGR1, QMGR2 and QMGR3 running on three different servers. The system administrator
also defined a clustered queue Q1 on the three queue managers. The messages currently get distributed
to Q1 across the three queue managers uniformly.
The system administrator has been asked to ensure that the Q1 on QMGR1 gets more messages
compared to QMGR2 and QMGR3.
Which channel attribute should the system administrator modify to achieve this?

54.An application connects to local queue manager QM1 and puts messages on remote queue QR1.
QR1 has been defined with target queue QL2, target queue manager QM2, and XMITQ QM2.
QL2 is defined as a local queue in QM2. For security purposes, another queue manager, QM3, has been
created behind a firewall and all messages destined for QL2 on QM2 need to be routed to QL3 on QM3.
Assuming QM2 and QM3 are interconnected, what changes does the system administrator need to make
to achieve this without application failure?

55.A JMS 2.0 application running on z/OS specifies a delivery delay of 20 seconds when sending
messages.
What must the system administrator do to support the delivery delay?

56.On a Linux system, a system administrator needs to change the default queue manager from QM1 to a
newly created queue manager QM2.
How can the system administrator do this?

57.In a network topology, a queue manager will have multiple clients connecting to a single
server-connection channel by using a TCP client-connection channel. The channel must be configured so
that an idle client does not stay connected.
To support this topology, the system administrator should: