IBM Assessment: IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management V8.0, Application Development Sample Questions:

1. Within a pricing application, there are three valid regions: A, B, and C.
The pricing rules currently include this decision table. The current version of this table has a gap in the rules and does not assign a discount for Gold customers in region C.
To prevent this rule from getting deployed in the future, gaps for this decision table should be treated as an error.

What should the application developer do in Rule Designer to treat gaps as an error condition within this decision table?

A) From the decision tables properties, turn on gap checking for all condition columns and set the reporting of gaps to an error level.
B) From the general tab, update the preconditions section with gapChecking=true;
C) From the column condition builder, turn on check interval for each condition column.
D) From the decision tables properties, turn on gap checking for all condition columns and enforce locking for this table.

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Business users would like the output of a simulation run to be displayed as a pie chart. What should the application developer do to implement this requirement?

A) Implement the interface IlrScenarioSuiteResourcesRenderer and repackage the Decision Center EAR file to include this new class.
B) Implement the interface IlrKPIResultAggregator and repackage the Decision Center EAR file to include the new class.
C) Implement the interface IlrScenarioSuiteKPIRenderer and repackage the Decision Center EAR file to include this new class.
D) Create a custom JSP page that includes pie chart widget and repackage the Decision Center EAR file to include this JSP Page.

3. Due to recent government legislation regarding mortgages, a financial institution needs to improve its governance processes by ensuring that all deployed changes to loan processing rules are traceable for auditing purposes. What should the application developer do to set up the Decision Center environment?

A) Work with the business analysts to design custom queries that return all deployed loan processing rules.
B) Work with the rule authors to define loan processing rule templates.
C) Turn on the default Decision Center tracing.
D) Create deployment baselines for each RuleApp deployment.

4. An application developer needs to ensure that a set of rules covers all possible cases leaving no gaps. Which artifact should the application developer use to perform this task?

A) Completeness analysis report
B) Consistency analysis report
C) Rule project statistics report
D) Ruleset execution trace

5. A custom hierarchy property location is defined for each rule to specify geographical location to which the rule applies. The following figure shows the value of the location property for various rules.

An application developer wants to select all rules that apply to Los Angeles. For example, Rule 1, Rule 2 and Rule 3. Which runtime rule selection Business Action Language (BAL) construct should the application developer use?

A) the location of the rule is under 'Los Angeles'
B) the location of the rule is 'Los Angeles'
C) the location of the rule is greater than or equal to 'Los Angeles'
D) the location of the rule is over 'Los Angeles'

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