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DB2 – 730 Certification Overview `

AJAY SHANKAR KHARE

Technical Consultant DB2 – IBM Academic Initiative
Webtek Labs Pvt. Ltd.

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DB2 V8.1- Family Fundamentals- Test 700

ƒ DB2 product Information (Product Overview)

ƒ DB2 concepts-D.A.S. & Cataloging (Getting Started,
Getting Connected)
ƒ Tools, wizards (demostrations)
ƒ Data Storage Management
ƒ User defined datatypes
ƒ Constraints
ƒ Access Control (Controlling Data Access)
ƒ Joins
ƒ Views
ƒ Concurrency

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CERTIFICATION EXAM

ƒ IBM Certified Database Associate for

DB2 9 (Test – 730)

ƒ Objective type exam

No. of questions : 64
Passing % required : 59 %
Duration of exam : 90 minutes

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Why DB2 9

 DB2 History & DB2 9 ( Viper)

 XML Technology
 XML in DB2 Viper
 XQuery
 Table Partitioning
 Granular Security - LBAC
 Data Compression
 DB2 Express - C

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Section 1 - Planning (15%)

 Knowledge of DB2 UDB products (client, server, etc.)
 Knowledge of the features and functions provided by
DB2 tools such as the Control Center, the Configuration
Advisor, the Configuration Assistant and the Command
Line Processor
 Knowledge of database workloads (OLAP versus data
warehousing)
 Knowledge of non-relational data concepts (extenders)
 Knowledge of XML data implications (non-shredding)

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Section 2 - Security (11%)

 Knowledge of restricting data access

 Knowledge of different authorities and
privileges available
 Knowledge of encryption options available
(data and network)
 Given a DCL SQL statement, ability to identify
results (GRANT, REVOKE, CONNECT
statements)
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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, ability to identify
results (ability to create DB2 objects)
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Section 4 - Working with DB2 Data using

SQL and XQuery (23.5%)
 Given a DML SQL statement, ability 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 INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE 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

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Section 5 - Working with DB2 Tables, Views,

and Indexes (23.5%)
 Ability to demonstrate proper usage of DB2 data types
 Given a situation, ability to create a table
 Ability to identify when referential integrity should be used
 Ability to identify methods of data constraint
 Ability to identify characteristics of a table, view or index
 Ability to identify when triggers should be used
 Knowledge of schemas
 Knowledge of data type options for storing XML data

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Section 6 - Data Concurrency (11%)

 Ability to identify factors that influence locking

 Ability to list objects on which locks can be
obtained
 Ability to identify characteristics of DB2 locks
 Given a situation, ability to identify the
isolation level that should be used

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Important Websites -

For information about Tests

http://www.ibm.com/certify

Job Opportunities for Certified professionals

http://www.ibm.com/in/university
http://www.ibm.com/university

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