WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances Curriculum

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• WE420 Administration of IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V4.0
• VE420 Administration of IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V4.0 (INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE)

  In this 3-day course, students learn how to perform system administration tasks for the IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. Through a combination of instructor-led lectures and hands-on lab exercises, students learn how to perform various administrative procedures, from initial installation and setup through ongoing maintenance of the appliances in production. Students learn about the available management interfaces such as the command-line interface (CLI), Web GUI, and XML Management Interface. Students also learn how to use these interfaces to perform various administrative tasks such as upgrading firmware, performing backup and restore operations, monitoring system performance, configuring user accounts and domains.

• WB580 Administration of IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V3.8.2
• VB580 Administration of IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V3.8.2 (INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE)

  In this 3-day course, students learn how to perform system administration tasks for the IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. Through a combination of instructor-led lectures and hands-on lab exercises, students learn how to perform various administrative procedures, from initial installation and setup through ongoing maintenance of the appliances in production. Students learn about the available management interfaces such as the command-line interface (CLI), Web GUI, and XML Management Interface. Students also learn how to use these interfaces to perform various administrative tasks such as upgrading firmware, performing backup and restore operations, monitoring system performance, configuring user accounts and domains.

• WB559 Administration of IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V3.8.1
• VB559 Administration of IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V3.8.1 (INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE)

  In this 3-day instructor-led course, students learn how to perform system administration tasks for the IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. Through a combination of instructor-led lectures and hands-on lab exercises, students learn how to perform various administrative procedures, from initial installation and setup through ongoing maintenance of the appliances in production. Students learn about the available management interfaces such as the command-line interface (CLI), Web GUI, and XML Management Interface. Students also learn how to use these interfaces to perform various administrative tasks such as upgrading firmware, performing backup and restore operations, monitoring system performance, configuring user accounts and domains.

• ZB562 WebSphere DataPower Option for Application Optimization (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)

  This four-hour course begins by introducing the concept of Application Optimization (AO), and how it is implemented in the WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. Students learn where the Option for Application Optimization applies in a typical DataPower topology, and how the feature is deployed to WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. The course then provides an in-depth look at how to configure the self-balancing features and concludes an in-depth look at the Intelligent Load Distribution features that provide load balancing capabilities to back-end WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and Virtual Enterprise and non-WebSphere environments.

• WE400 Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with IBM DataPower V4.0.1
• VE400 Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE)
• ZE400 Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)

  In this 5-day instructor-led course, students learn the fundamental skills required to implement IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with firmware version 4.0.1. In this course you will learn how to implement the key use cases for the DataPower appliances, including XML acceleration and threat protection, web service virtualization, web services security, integrating with IBM WebSphere MQ and Java Message Service (JMS), and authentication, authorization, and auditing (AAA). Students also learn how to use various problem determination tools such as logs, monitors, and probes, as well as techniques for testing DataPower services and handling errors.

• WB540 Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V3.8.2
• VB540 Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V3.8.2 (INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE)

  In this 5-day course, students learn the fundamental skills required to implement IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with firmware version 3.8.2. Through a combination of instructor-led lectures and hands-on lab exercises, students learn how to implement the key use cases for the DataPower appliances, including XML acceleration and threat protection, web service virtualization, web services security, integrating with IBM WebSphere MQ and Java Message Service (JMS), and authentication, authorization, and auditing (AAA). Students also learn how to use various problem determination tools such as logs, monitors, and probes, as well as techniques for testing DataPower services and handling errors.

• WB565 Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V3.8.1
• VB565 Accelerate, Secure and Integrate with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances V3.8.1 (INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE)

  In this 5-day course, you will learn the fundamental skills required to implement IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with firmware version 3.8.1. Through a combination of instructor-led lectures and hands-on lab exercises, students will learn how to implement the key use cases for the DataPower appliances, including XML acceleration and threat protection, Web service virtualization, Web services security, integrating with IBM WebSphere MQ and Java Message Service (JMS), and authentication, authorization, and auditing (AAA). . Students also learn how to use various problem determination tools such as logs, monitors, and probes, as well as techniques for testing DataPower services and handling errors.

• WB561 Advanced Configuration, Security, and Integration of DataPower SOA Appliances
• VB561 Advanced Configuration, Security, and Integration of DataPower SOA Appliances (INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE)

  This 3-day teaches students how to create advanced and highly customized deployments of IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with firmware version 3.8.1. Students learn how to perform advanced configuration of DataPower SOA Appliances, including how to enforce access control using various security architectures and govern services using a service registry. This course also covers how to integrate the DataPower appliance with external systems, such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers, databases, and WebSphere Transformation Extender. Students learn the recommended methodologies for implementing these features in a development environment, as well as supporting source control management and environment migration. In addition, students learn about the available DataPower extension functions and how to take advantage of them using custom XSL Transformations (XSLT).

• ZE441 Using Variables and Extensions with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Lab Exercises) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)
• ZE471 Using Variables and Extensions with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Demonstrations) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)

  This self-paced course combines streaming lecture with a demonstration (ZE471) or lab exercises (ZE441) to introduce the DataPower tooling that supports the use of context variables and extensions. In the course lecture, you learn how to develop a sample service web service policy that supports dynamic routing based on an XML document and an XSLT style sheet. The course concludes with a demonstration or lab that shows you how to create two DataPower services that includes dynamic routing based on XSLT, and the other service includes conditional processing based on advanced action flow control using context variables.

• ZE442 Creating RESTful Services with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Hands-On Lab) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)
• ZE472 Creating RESTful Services with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Demonstration) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)

  This self-paced course combines a streaming lecture with a hands-on lab exercise or demonstration to introduce participants to the IBM DataPower support for Representational State Transfer (REST) and RESTful services. This course starts with a lecture that briefly introduces REST and the REST terminology, and then describes the tooling within the DataPower firmware that supports RESTful interactions. The course lecture ends with a sample service policy that supports a RESTful client with a SOAP-based web service back end. The course concludes with a demonstration or lab that shows the creation of the DataPower service supporting this sample scenario.

• ZE443 Controlling Access with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Hands-On Lab) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)
• ZE473 Controlling Access with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Demonstration) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)

  The course starts with a streaming lecture that describes the security technologies supported by the DataPower AAA framework. Students learn how to enforce access control using approaches that execute on the appliance itself, and approaches that use external technologies such as Tivoli Access Manager or Tivoli Security Policy Manager. The lecture covers end-to-end security between DataPower and a back-end application server, and then describes how to write AAA policies using the DataPower AAA framework. Students learn how to customize the steps of the AAA policy to extract identities, and perform custom authentication or authorization.

• ZE444 Using FTP with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Hands-On Lab) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)
• ZE474 Using FTP with IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Demonstration) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)

  The course lecture explains options for transferring files from one system to another using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and SFTP (SSH (Secure Shell) File Transfer Protocol). Students explore the most popular options for securing file transfers, and the benefits and drawbacks of each option. The lecture also describes how to use the DataPower appliance with FTP, Secure FTP, and SFTP, and how to configure the appliance over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol handlers. Finally, students learn how to use the URL-Open extension function to programmatically use the FTP protocol.

• ZE448 Processing Attachments for IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Hands-On Lab) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)
• ZE478 Processing Attachments for IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Demonstration) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)

  The course lecture begins with a description of the common ways that attachments are used in SOAP messages: SOAP with Attachments (SwA) and Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM). It explains how DataPower supports messages with attachments from various configuration settings to service policy actions. The lecture then reviews actions that can manipulate attachments, and describes the attachment-related configuration options in the service policy and in the service itself. Next, the lecture describes the configuration of the MTOM Policy object to enable encoding and decoding of MTOM-formatted messages. It lists DataPower extension functions, elements, and variables that relate to attachments.

• ZE449 Using Scripts to Manage Migration for IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Hands-On Lab) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)
• ZE479 Using Scripts to Manage Migration for IBM DataPower V4.0.1 (With Demonstrations) (SELF-PACED VIRTUAL COURSE)

  In the course lecture, students learn multiple options for performing the migration of a DataPower configuration from one platform to another while identifying common problems and tools that can be used to mediate them. The lecture describes how to create and use deployment polices and how to integrate external scripting tools, such as Python/ANT (Another Neat Tool) and shell scripts.