MQ interview questions -1

MQSeries Questionnaire
1.

Which of the following network protocols are supported for WebSphere MQ for
HP-UX?
A.

SPX

B. . UDP
C. . TCP/IP
D. . LU 6.2
E. . NETBIOS
2. In a WebSphere MQ environment where five queue managers are in a huband-spoke configuration, how many channels must be created in order for the four
spoke queue managers to exchange messages with the one hub queue manager?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 8
D. 10
3.

There are two channels to send messages from queue manager QM1 to queue
manager QM2. Channel C1 uses transmission queue QM1.QM2 and channel C2 uses
transmission queue QM2. QM1 has a remote queue definition, Q2, which specifies
QM1.QM2 as the transmission queue to reach QM2. An application connected to
QM1 performs an MQPUT1 specifying both an object queue name Q2 and an object
queue manager name QM2. Which of the following channel(s) will be used to
transmit the message?
A. C1
B. C2
C. C1 or C2 will be selected
D. No transmission will occur

4.

A triggered sender channel is defined with a disconnect interval of 600. Which of

the following channel states will NOT be shown after issuing a DISPLAY CHSTATUS
command?
A. INACTIVE
B. BINDING
C. REQUESTING
D. STOPPING
5. A WebSphere MQ client program written in java receives a 2059
(MQRC_Q_MGR_NOT_AVAILABLE) error when attempting to connect to a queue

manager. Which of the following should be verified to determine the cause of this
problem?
A.

The MQSERVER environment variable is set

B.

The program has access to the client channel definition table

C.

The program has set the MQ environment correctly

D.

The queue manager's listener is running

E.
6.

The program has been compiled using the correct JDK

Which of the following represents a callback?
A.

Requester sender

B.

Requester Server

C.

Sender receiver

D. Cluster sender
7.

Which of the following scenarios require an authority check to be performed?

A. When an application connects to a queue manager using an MQCONN or
MQCONNX call
B.

When an application opens a WebSphere MQ object using an MQOPEN or

MQPUT1 call

C.

When an application deletes a permanent dynamic queue using an MQCLOSE

call

D. All of the above

8.

E. A and B
In WebSphere MQ for iSeries, the SSL key repository is accessed using:
A. The MQSC command ALTER QMGR SSLKEYR.
B. The Digital Certificate Management tool.
C. The IBM GSKit package.
D. iKeyMan.

9.

When an application opens an object, the application can supply a user ID on

the
MQOPEN or MQPUT1 call and ask the queue manager to use this user ID for
authority checks instead of the one associated with the application. This is called:
A. MQM privilege
B.

Alternate user authority

C.

Additional User authority

D. None of the above

10. Which of the following commands are checked for authority by the OAM
(Object Authority Manager)

A.

Create Channel

B.

Reset Cluster

C.

Start Channel Listener

D. Start Channel Initiator

E.

All of the above

F. None of the above

11. Which is the default directory in UNIX where the key repository DB file is stored?
(QM1 is the Queue manager)
A.

/var/mqm/qmgrs/QM1/ssl/key.kdb.

B.

/var/mqm/ssl/key.kdb.

C.

/var/qmgrs/QM1/ssl/key.kdb.

D. None of the above

12.

Which of the following does not apply to a security exit?

A. Security exits are called immediately after the initial data negotiation has
completed on channel startup, but before any messages start to flow
B.

Security exits can be called only on message channels, not on MQI channels.

C.

The name of a security exit is specified as a parameter in the channel definition

D. Security exit can perform functions that have nothing to do with security
13.

Which of the following security services are performed by DCE channel exits?
A. Identification
B.

authentication

C.

Confidentiality

D. Data integrity

14.

E.

All of the above

E.

a)b) and c)

In which structure will the userid for authentication of the application be set?
A. MQMD
B.

MQTXH

C.

MQCD

D. None of the above

E.

A and B

15. The API-crossing exit is invoked for the following MQI calls namely (multi
choice)
A.

MQCLOSE

B.

MQGET

C.

MQINQ

16.

17.

18.

D. MQCONN
Which of the following are common reasons for authentication failures during
the
SSL handshake(multiple choice)
A.

The SSL client does not have a certificate

B.

A certificate has expired or is not yet active

C.

There is no matching CA root certificate or the certificate chain is incomplete

D. A certificate is not supported

What is the difference between Removing and Unassigning a certificate?
A. When you remove a certificate, it is deleted from the certificate store for the
queue manager or WebSphere MQ client but When you unassign a certificate, it
remains in the certificate store but cannot be used for authentication purposes.
B.

When you remove a certificate, it is deleted from the certificate store for the
queue manager but When you unassign a certificate, it remains in the certificate
store but cannot be used for authentication purposes.

C.

When you remove a certificate, it is deleted from the certificate store for the
queue manager but When you unassign a certificate, it remains in the certificate
store but is not associated with any queue manager

Which of the following are true?

A. A caller MCA is an SSL client and a responder MCA is an SSL server.
B.

A caller MCA is an SSL server and a responder MCA is an SSL client.

C.

Both A and B

D. None of the above

19. An existing cluster has two queue managers, LONDON and NEW_YORK. Only
LONDON has a full repository. A queue manager, PARIS, is being added to the
cluster. It needs to send messages to the INVENTQ queue hosted by queue
manager NEW_YORK and to the PAYROLL queue hosted by queue manager
LONDON. Network connectivity exists between all three locations. How many
additional definitions are required at queue managers LONDON and NEW_YORK to
add queue manager PARIS to the cluster?
A. 0
B. 2
C. 4
D. It varies based on platform
20. What is the queue name, where the cluster queue managers exchange repository
information in messages?
A. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.COMMAND.QUEUE
B. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.REPOSITORY.QUEUE
C. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.ADMIN.QUEUE
D. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.EXCHANGE.QUEUE
21. A company has been running an MQSeries application for some time. In the
application, client components send request messages to a server component

which processes the messages and sends back replies. The company now wishes
to migrate the application to use a queue manager cluster to have MQSeries
balance the workload across the multiple instances of the server. As part of the
migration planning, it has been identified that some request messages are related
to each other, or form a sequence, and must be processed by the same instance of
the server in the new environment. Which should be considered first as a way of
dealing with such message affinities?
A.

Name a specific queue manager on the MQOPEN call

B.

Use the MQOO_BIND_ON_OPEN option on the MQOPEN call

C.

Use a cluster workload exit

D. Try to remove the message affinities from the application design

22. What happens if a message-batch is sent to a particular queue manager and that
queue manager becomes unavailable in a cluster?
A. undelivered batch of messages is backed out to the cluster transmission
queue on the sending queue manager.
B.

If the backed-out batch of messages is not in doubt and the messages are not
bound to the particular queue manager, the workload management routine is
called. The workload management routine selects a suitable alternative queue
manager and the messages are sent there.

C.

Messages that have already been delivered to the queue manager, or are in
doubt, or have no suitable alternative, wait until the original queue manager
becomes available again.

D. All are correct

23. Which of the following network protocols are supported for WebSphere MQ for
AIX?
A.

SPX

B.

UDP

C.

TCP/IP

D.

NetBIOS

24. What is the queue name where the cluster queue managers hold the full
repository information?
A. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.COMMAND.QUEUE
B. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.REPOSITORY.QUEUE
C. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.ADMIN.QUEUE
D. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.EXCHANGE.QUEUE
25. When an application opens (MQOPEN) a queue with MQOO_BIND_ON_OPEN?
A. To send sequence of all messages to available queue instance
B. To send sequence of all messages to same instance of queue
C. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.ADMIN.QUEUE
D. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.EXCHANGE.QUEUE

26. What are advantages of using Clusters?

A.

Reduced system administration.

B.

Increased availability

C.

Workload balancing.

D. All of the above

27. An existing cluster has two queue managers, LONDON and NEW_YORK. Only
LONDON has a full repository. A queue manager, PARIS, is being added to the
cluster. It needs to send messages to the INVENTQ queue hosted by queue
manager NEW_YORK and to the PAYROLL queue hosted by queue manager
LONDON. Network connectivity exists between all three locations. How many
Transmission queue definitions are required at queue manager PARIS to send
messages to INVENTQ and PAYROLL queue?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 3
28. To establish a cluster with four queue managers (QM1, QM2, QM3 and QM4)
how many total number of channels required?
A. 3
B.

C.

D. 2

29. What is command used to create cluster queue, where SALES is the name of
the cluster?
A.

DEFINE QLOCAL(Q1) CLUSTER(SALES)

B.

DEFINE QLOCAL(Q1)

C.

DEFINE QLOCAL(Q1) REPOS(SALES)

D.

DEFINE QLOCAL(Q1) QMGR(SALES)

30. What is the cluster transmission queue which will be created by default on
each cluster queue manager?
A. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.TRANSMIT.QUEUE
B. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.XMIT.QUEUE
C. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.TRANSMISSION.QUEUE
D. SYSTEM.CLUSTER.TRANS.QUEUE

31. What is the command used to specify the cluster workload exit?
A. ALTER QMGR CLWLEXIT(myexit)
B. ALTER QMGR CWLEXIT(myexit)
C. ALTER QMGR EXIT(myexit)
D. ALTER QMGR EXIT n workload
32. What are the different ways that clusters will achieve work load balancing?
A.

Increasing repository queue managers

B.

Writing workload exits

C.

Maintaining same instance of queue

D.

Creating more clusters

33. Using the following configuration: DEFINE QREMOTE(Q1) RNAME(Q1) RQMNAME(QM1)

XMITQ(QM1.XMIT)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QM1) USAGE(XMITQ)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QM1.XMIT) USAGE(XMITQ)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QXMIT) USAGE(XMITQ)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QMY.XMIT) USAGE(XMITQ)
ALTER QMGR DEFXMITQ(QXMIT)
DEF QREMOTE(QMY) RQMNAME(QMX)
If an application running on QMX sets up the Object Descriptor such that the
ObjectName is 'Q1', and the ObjectQMgrName is 'QM1', which transmission queue
will messages end up on when the application issues MQPUT1s?
QXMIT
QM1
QM1.XMIT
QMY.XMIT
34. Using the following configuration:
DEFINE QREMOTE(Q1) RNAME(Q1) RQMNAME(QM1) XMITQ(QM1.XMIT)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QM1) USAGE(XMITQ)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QM1.XMIT) USAGE(XMITQ)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QXMIT) USAGE(XMITQ)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QMY.XMIT) USAGE(XMITQ)
ALTER QMGR DEFXMITQ(QXMIT)
DEF QREMOTE(QMY) RQMNAME(QMX)
If an application running on QMX sets up the Object Descriptor such that the
ObjectName is 'Q1' and the ObjectQMgrName is 'QMY', which transmission queue

will messages end up on when the application issues MQPUT1s?

QXMIT
QM1
QM1.XMIT
QMY.XMIT
35. Using the following configuration:
DEFINE QREMOTE(Q1) RNAME(Q1) RQMNAME(QM1) XMITQ(QM1.XMIT)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QM1) USAGE(XMITQ)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QM1.XMIT) USAGE(XMITQ)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QXMIT) USAGE(XMITQ)
DEFINE QLOCAL(QMY.XMIT) USAGE(XMITQ)
ALTER QMGR DEFXMITQ(QXMIT)
DEF QREMOTE(QMY) RQMNAME(QMX)

If an application running on QMX sets up the Object Descriptor such that the
ObjectName is 'Q1' and the ObjectQMgrName is 'QMZ', which transmission queue
will messages end up on when the application issues MQPUT1s?
QXMIT
QM1
QM1.XMIT
QMY.XMIT
36. When using the ALTER CHANNEL command, which one of the following
keywords is a required parameter?
TRPTYPE
CONNAME
XMITQ
CHLTYPE
37.You have 10 Sun Solaris client systems and a server queue manager on a Windows NT
system.

You need to configure an MQI channel between each client system and the server queue
manager.
What is the minimum number of textually different DEFINE CHANNEL commands
are necessary to acomplish this?
0
1.
10.
11.
20.

38. The maximum number of messages that can be placed on a queue on MQSeries
for Windows NT V5 is limited to (assuming no MQGETs are being done):
The number of messages that make up 320MB
The number of messages that make up 1GB
The value of MAXDEPTH
The limit is based on the upper limit of your file system

39. Queue manager aliases are defined using:

The DEFINE QMGRA command
The DEFINE QMALIAS command
The ALTER QMGR ALIAS(aliasname) command
The DEFINE QREMOTE command
40. Two WebSphere MQ applications are being deployed. One will put requests
onto a queue. The other will get these requests off of the queue and process them.
It has been determined that each application should only be able to open the
queue in the mode that it uses. Which of the following runmqsc commands will
enable this action to occur?
A. define ql(APPL.QUEUE) define qalias(APPL.GET.QUEUE) targq(APPL.QUEUE)
PUT(ENABLED) GET(DISABLED) define qalias(APPL.PUT.QUEUE)
targq(APPL.QUEUE) PUT(DISABLED) GET(ENABLED)

B. define ql(APPL.QUEUE) define qalias(APPL.PUT.QUEUE) targq(APPL.QUEUE)

PUT(ENABLED) GET(DISABLED) define qalias(APPL.GET.QUEUE)
targq(APPL.QUEUE) PUT(DISABLED) GET(ENABLED)
C. define ql(APPL.QUEUE) define qmodel(APPL.PUT.QUEUE) like(APPL.QUEUE)
PUT(ENABLED) GET(DISABLED) define qmodel(APPL.GET.QUEUE)
like(APPL.QUEUE) PUT(DISABLED) GET(ENABLED)
D. define ql(APPL.QUEUE) put(ENABLED) get(ENABLED) alter ql(APPL.QUEUE)
process(GetApplication) get(ENABLED) alter ql(APPL.QUEUE)
process(PutApplication) put(ENABLED)