SW741: IBM WebSphere Portal Version 5 Fundamentals

27 July 2005

The purpose of this course is to give an overview of WebSphere Portal V5 in a high-level format while introducing concepts and terms relevant to portals. In addition, it will cover introductory administration concepts and procedures, such as logging into the portal, getting help, moving portlets on a page, adding portlets and placing them on pages, and so on.

IBM's WebSphere Portal solution provides a single point of interaction with dynamic information, applications, processes and people to help build business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) portals. This course offers an introduction to WebSphere Portal and is the prerequisite to all WebSphere Portal education courses in this series.

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This course is divided into six parts or modules, the first of which is an introduction that describes the Web-based training experience and helps you select the modules you wish to complete.

Audience

This course is suitable for IBM customers, Independent Software Vendors, Systems Integrators, and IBM technical staff members, including architects and developers, who implement portal solutions built on the IBM WebSphere Portal platform.

Objectives

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Understand the portal environment and personalized portals.
• Understand the main features of WebSphere Portal and how it fits within the WebSphere family of products.
• Understand the concepts of collaboration and the value of WebSphere Portal in a collaborative environment.
• Gain working knowledge to common administrative tasks.
• Learn about the follow-on courses available for WebSphere Portal and the roadmap for further education opportunities.

Prerequisites

• Students should be knowledgeable in Web concepts and the value of Web based applications to their organization.

System requirements

• This course requires Microsoft® Internet Explorer version 5 or greater.

Duration

The time required to complete the course depends upon your reading speed, and how many units you complete. Each lecture typically takes twenty to forty minutes to read. Demonstrations typically last between five and fifteen minutes. Completing the quiz may take another five minutes. Therefore, you can allow an average of a forty-five minutes for each module.

One benefit of a self-paced course is that you can take it a portion at a time. Allocating some time each day for a week may be more a effective approach to completing this course than setting aside an entire day.

Languages

English