Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Advanced Administrator II (1Z0-134) Practice Exam

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Advanced Administrator II (1Z0-134)

About Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Advanced Administrator II (1Z0-134)

1Z0-134 exam will lead you towards Oracle Certified Professional and WebLogic Server 12c Administrator certification with raising the bar for WLS administrators. Earning this certification gives you the skills to perform advanced system administration tasks in a complex environment and proves fluency in and a solid understanding of Oracle WebLogic Server Administration. With Oracle WebLogic Server 12c being more cloud-ready than ever before, new features like Dynamic Clusters and Elastic JMS make it easier to deploy WLS in a private or public cloud, or both.

Knowledge Required 

Candidate for this certification should have a strong foundation in and experience with administering a WebLogic Server and holds the Oracle Certified Associate WLS 12c or 11g Administrator credential. 

Course Structure

1 Upgrading WebLogic Server

• Identify the correct steps, and related issues,  in the process for performing a rolling upgrade, including backup, shutdown, upgrade and restart.

• Describe a "rolling upgrade" and how it differs from other upgrades. Identify upgrade types officially supported for WebLogic rolling upgrades. Identify issues with multiple installation locations and domain locations. 

• Describe how to leverage WebLogic Clusters to avoid downtime

• Bring down and patch servers individually; Use multiple install/domain folders for cluster members

2 Server Operations

• Configure Node Manager to start failed servers. Identify how to manage crash recovery per-domain node manager

• Configure Node Manager to start on system boot

• Describe the Node Manager architecture. Identify Node Manager default behaviour. Configure a Java-based Node Manager. Configure the Node Manager to start on system boot under Windows, Linux, and Solaris

• Describe how the Node Manager restarts an administration server and a Managed Server

3 Transport Layer Security

• Configure keystores in WLS. Describe keystore concepts.

• Configure WebLogic SSL with the following architectures: WebLogic Proxy Plug-ins, Oracle HTTP server, Hardware Load Balancers.

• Describe SSL concepts as they relate to WLS, including symmetric encryption and decryption, asymmetric encryption and decryption, digital certificates, certificate authorities, SSL communication and one-way and two-way SSL handshakes.

• Use the keytool utility for managing keys and certificates

4 Application Work Managers

• Create and use work managers

• Apply an understanding of WebLogic Request Handling concepts:  WebLogic Server Threads, Monitoring a Server Thread Pool, Monitoring Server Threads, Stuck Thread Handling, Configuring Stuck Thread Handling, Application Stuck Thread Handling

• Explain Work Manager Concepts, including Work Managers, Work Manager Scope, Work Manager Architecture

• Apply an understanding of the following concepts to create a Work Manager:

• Request Classes, Creating a Work Manager, Creating a Request Class, Constraints, Creating a Constraint, Work Manager WLST Example, Work Managers and Stuck Threads, Assigning Work Managers to Applications

5 Security Realm

• Define users, groups, policies, and roles for an embedded LDAP server

• Configure auditing, role mapping, and credential mapping, including Sample Auditing Output, Security Audit Events, WebLogic Auditing Architecture, Custom Versus Default Auditing Provider, Creating and configuring the Default Auditing Provider, Configuration Auditing

• Apply an understanding of key concepts and techniques about the embedded LDAP Authentication System, including Users and Groups, Group Membership, Roles, and Policies, Configuring New Users and groups; and group memberships, Configuring New Roles, Configuring Role Mapping, Configuring Roles and policies Using WLST, Security Configuration Sources, Configuring Sources Using WLST and weblogic.Deployer, embedded LDAP Server, Configuring the Embedded LDAP Server

• Describe troubleshooting of log-in issues

• Configure an audit provider to audit domain configuration changes

6. Diagnostic Framework

• Configure WebLogic Diagnostic Framework (WLDF) to monitor a domain

• Apply the concepts and techniques associated with the WLDF, including WLDF Architecture, Diagnostic Archives, Configuring Server Diagnostic Archives, Diagnostic Modules, Dynamic Diagnostic Modules, Resource Descriptors, Creating a Diagnostic Module, New WLST Commands for WLDF

• Apply concepts and techniques associated with diagnostic images, including capturing a server diagnostic image

• Describe a Harvester and configure a metric collector to capture WebLogic runtime MBean data

• Describe and configure watches and notifications

7 Coherence

• Configure and use Coherence*Web for HTTP session persistence; Apply key concepts and techniques for Coherence*Web session replication, types of Session Persistence, Coherence*Web definition and requirements, Coherence*Web and WebLogic Clusters, Coherence*Web Session Failover, Configuring Coherence*Web in WebLogic

• Configure and use managed Coherence servers

• Describe key concepts associated with Oracle Coherence, with particular reference to its use to cluster an applications' objects and data

• Apply key concepts and techniques for Managed Coherence Servers, including the relation between Coherence and WebLogic Server, WebLogic Managed Coherence ServersOperations, Grid Archive (GAR), Coherence Application Deployment on WebLogic, Coherence Container: Benefits

• Coherence Cluster

8 JMS Persistence, Transactions, and Durability

• Compare JMS persistence options

• Configure file or JDBC persistence for JMS

• Explain the use of transactions with JMS

• Configure and monitor JMS transactions

• Manage and monitor durable subscribers

9 Creating and Extending Domains 

• Create a domain template with the Template Builder

• Create an extension template with the Template Builder

• Create a domain using a template

• Extend a domain with a template

• Recognize template concepts, including Template contents, template exclusions, and script replacement variables; Recognize concepts associated with extension templates. Describe Fusion Middleware templates. Explain the reasons for using custom templates. Apply techniques for correctly using the template builder. Correctly select the Template Domain Source. Use the Custom Extension Template with the Configuration Wizard.

• Execute post-domain creation tasks

10 WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) & JMX

• Create, Modify, and monitor a domain with WLST

• Run commands in WLST interactive mode

• Write simple WLST scripts

• Identify how to run WLST scripts

• Program Jython variables, conditionals, loops, I/O commands and exception handling to work with WLST. Identify key WLST concepts, including online and offline modes. Record scripts using the WLST administration console. Use tools such as configToScript, Script recording, and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse) to help write WLST scripts. Use online and offline WLST commands. Apply Java Management eXtension (JMX) concepts as they apply to WLS Mbeans

• Execute common WLST tasks including:

11 Applications and Deployment

• Configure a server's staging mode in staged, no stage, and external stage modes. Deploy an application to multiple environments (development, test, production). Explain deployment descriptor Values

• Create and use deployment plans in different environments. Use tools to accelerate deployment plan creation, including the administration console, WLST createPlan option, and weblogic.PlanGenerator Java class. Explain how Java EE deployment descriptors such as appmerge and appc  configure Java EE application features.

• Deploy an application as a shared Java EE library with the console, with weblogic.Deployer and with WLST. Apply an understanding of shared Java EE library concepts to deploying an application as a shared library.

• Deploy versioned applications (Production Redeployment)

12 Data Sources

• Suspend and resume a data source, Perform operations on your data source, including suspend, force suspend, resume, reset, shrink, stop and start.

• Configure a multi-data source, manage members. Apply concepts of Multi Data Sources, including Multi Data Source Architecture, Comparison of GridLink and Multi Data Sources, Failover Option, Load Balancing Option

• Identify key concepts associated with GridLink Data Source, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle GridLink for RAC

• Identify the role and techniques for Connection Testing when configuring failover

13 Disaster Recovery

• Create a backup administration server

• Configure service-level transaction migration

• Describe whole server migration for WLS

• Apply disaster recovery concepts, including Site Symmetry, Recommended Architecture, General Best Practices

• Address Admin Server backup techniques and concepts, including Impact of Administration Server Failure, Backing Up a Domain Configuration, Recovery of the Administration Server, Restarting an Administration Server on a New Computer

• Apply the concepts and techniques for service-level migration, including Service Migration Prerequisites, Service Migration Architecture: Database Leasing.

14 Clustering

• Describe differences between configured vs dynamic cluster

15 JMS Concepts, Configuration & Monitoring

• Discuss the benefits of enterprise messaging. Define terms such as producer, consumer, and destination. Compare two different messaging models. Explain the JMS communication architecture.

• Describe a message-driven EJB

• Discuss WebLogic's JMS administration architecture

• Create and target a JMS server

• Create a JMS module and define subdeployments. Create connection factories. Add a connection factory to a module. Create queues and topics. Configure error destinations. Create destination quotas; configure a JMS server quota.

• Use destination templates; create a destination from a template; configure an existing destination's template

• Monitor basic JMS and MDB statistics, Monitor destinations on a JMS Server, Monitor connections and sessions, Use the Monitoring Dashboard

• Administer JMS including: Inspect in-progress messages, Create test messages, Move messages across destinations, Pause JMS services for maintenance and troubleshooting

16 JMS & Clustering

• Target JMS resources to both configured and dynamic clusters

• Discuss the advantages of distributed destinations

• Describe how clients interact with distributed destinations

• Create and target a uniform distributed destination

• Describe how JMS load balancing decisions are made

• Discuss the challenges of making JMS highly available

• Configure the cluster leasing service

• Configure automatic server migration

• Manually migrate a failed server

• Compare service and whole server migration

• Configure and use migratable targets

• Configure automatic service migration

• Manually migrate JMS and related services

Exam Pattern 

• Exam Name: Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Advanced Administrator II
• Exam Code: 1Z0-134
• Number of Questions: 80
• Length of Time:  120 minutes
• Exam Fee $245 USD 
• Exam Language: English

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