Digital Badge Program ZZ-DUPLICATES

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to run various administrative procedures, from initial installation & setup through ongoing maintenance of the appliances in production. This includes available management interfaces, such as the command-line interface (CLI), Web Management graphical interface, & XML Management Interface; using interfaces to run various administrative tasks; running backup & restore operations; configuring user accounts & domains.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Administration of IBM DataPower Gateway V7.6 - Code: WE761G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding advanced report building techniques to enhance, customize, manage, and distribute reports. Topics also include how to create highly interactive and engaging reports that can be run offline by creating Active Reports.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Advanced (V11.1.x) - Code: B6259G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to streamline your daily operations by implementing the latest features, such as inline data deduplication using storage containers, secure communications, and node replication. Skills covered include using the Operations Center and administrative command line to manage multiple IBM Spectrum Protect servers and nodes.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 Advanced Administration, Tuning, and Troubleshooting - Code: TS626G

This credential earner completed instructor-led learning for understanding of implementation & basic administration of an IBM Spectrum Protect environment. This includes: purpose; install & configure components; administrative & client interfaces; storage methodology option & storage pool; data movement & retention policies; database configuration & storage pools for protection; optimize client configuration; backup, restore, archive & retrieve operations; daily tasks; automation & monitoring.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.6 Implementation and Administration - Code: TS617G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to install, configure & administer IBM Spectrum Protect Plus v10.1.4. Topics include: software capabilities, requirements & architecture; tasks to configure the environment on an installed virtual appliance; how to customize SLA policy; using available options to protect virtual machines & applications, plus the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog; monitor & manage jobs; disaster recovery; view log files; & reports.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.4 - Implementation and Administration - Code: TSP11G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS) components, architecture, and concepts. This includes the System Operations component with Processor Operations as an optional topic. This course is a prerequisite for attending the operations or admin classes.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM System Automation for z/OS 4.1 Architecture - Code: SM917G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the concepts and implementation details of the software-defined networking and storage features of PowerVC on IBM Power Systems servers, known as IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). This includes how to implement a PowerVM infrastructure with software-defined storage based on IBM Spectrum Scale using NovaLink in SDE-mode, and software-defined networking based on Open vSwitch (OVS).

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Implementing PowerVC Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) - Code: QZC35G

This badge holder has demonstrated knowledge with the IBM TS1120 and LTO4 Tape Encryption and its components. They have a good working knowledge of the IBM tape encryption key manager, along with the benefits provided by IBM tape encryption.

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During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:  Describing IBM tape encryption and the benefits of using it; Defining IBM tape encryption key manager (EKM); Illustrating system managed using AIX device driver; Characterizing application managed tape encryption using TSM.

This badge holder can implement a scalable and centralized user authentication, authorization, and web single sign-on solution using Security Access Manager.

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Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:  Understanding authentication & authorization, and access control for the reverse proxy; Configuring and managing the Web Gateway Appliance; Setting up the reverse proxy to handle web requests; Adding web content protection to reverse proxy; and Auditing reverse proxy events.

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to implement Pervasive Encryption in a z/OS installation, including: technologies involved in z System & z/OS Cryptographic Services, ICSF, RACF & DFSMS access method Services; setting up a hardware crypto environment (CCA crypto express & CPACF); load & activate AES master keys; setup of ICSF & its Key datasets (CKDS PKDS TKDS); data encryption keys; data set encryption policy; & encrypt data sets and zFS systems

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Pervasive Encryption on z/OS - Code: ESS10G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the System Automation for z/OS® (SA z/OS) commands that are used for system operations. Skills covered include: starting and stopping automated resources; monitoring and controlling automated resources; and how to IPL and shut down systems.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: System Automation for z/OS 4.1 Operations - Code: SM927G

This badge holder has demonstrated experience with how to install, configure & administer IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The recipient is able to customize SLA policy, protect virtual machines and applications, as well as the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog. They are also able to monitor & manage jobs, plan & prepare for disaster recovery, generate and view log files, & create custom reports.

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During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with: Performing installation for Hyper-v and/or VMware environments; Configuring VADP proxies & policy based on SLA; Adding vSnap backup storage; Delineating disaster recovery options for Spectrum Protect Plus data; Collecting logs for Spectrum Protect Plus support

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to create, publish, and secure APIs with IBM API Connect V2018. Skills covered include: Creating APIs in API Connect; Implementing APIs with the LoopBack Node.js framework; Creating message processing policies that transform API requests and responses; Authorizing client API requests with security definition; Enforcing an OAuth flow with an OAuth 2.0 API security; & Publishing & test APIs on the API Connect cloud.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Create, Secure, and Publish APIs with IBM API Connect v2018 - Code: WD514G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding report building techniques using relational data models. This includes techniques to enhance, customize, and manage professional reports. Topics covered include: report creation, uploading data, list reports, data aggregation, multi-fact queries, creating and exploring crosstab reports, visualization reports, using calculations, report layouts, and more.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (v11.0.x) - Code: B6158G