A system administrator needs to monitor a transaction and determine how much time it spends in
the web container, EJB container, and backend database. Which tool should the administrator use
to gather response times for each component?

An administrator needs to monitor the frequency of garbage collection (GC) cycles that are
triggered when a typical client load is run against the server. How should the administrator monitor
the frequency of garbage collections?

A system administrator needs to improve performance of a WebSphere Application Server
runtime. The computations of JavaServer Pages (JSP), servlets, portlets, Web services and
WebSphere commands should be performed once and served from memory. What should the
administrator configure?

A system administrator is tuning a WebSphere Application Server system for optimal performance,
based on advice obtained from the Performance and Diagnostic advisor. What setting should the
administrator configure to ensure accurate advice for the specific configuration of the system?

While monitoring a JDBC data source’s performance during a test load, a system administrator
notices that there are a large number of prepared statements discarded from the cache. In order to
improve application throughput, how should the administrator tune the data source?

A system administrator needs to identify the performance of a database application and JDBC
connection pool, CPU usage time and response time. Which tools should the administrator use to
get this data?

A system administrator needs to identify the most time-intensive web components of a running
application, and determine which components are the slowest. The administrator does this from
the Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV) by:

An application server is configured with the default garbage collection (GC) policy. An
administrator needs to load test different GC policies. How can the administrator change the
server’s GC policy?

A system administrator needs to modify the Java 2 security permissions for applications running
on a server. How should the administrator perform this task?

The lead administrator needs to limit access to the Integrated Solutions Console (ISC) by a group
of administrators who only need to: ?view the configuration of the WebSphere Application Server.
?monitor its status. ?stop and start the server. To what administrative role should the lead
administrator assign this group?