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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide

By : Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura
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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide

By: Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura

Overview of this book

IBM Db2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that helps you store, analyze, and retrieve data efficiently. This comprehensive book is designed to help you master all aspects of IBM Db2 database administration and prepare you to take and pass IBM's Certification Exams C2090-600. Building on years of extensive experience, the authors take you through all areas covered by the test. The book delves deep into each certification topic: Db2 server management, physical design, business rules implementation, activity monitoring, utilities, high availability, and security. IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide provides you with more than 150 practice questions and answers, simulating real certification examination questions. Each chapter includes an extensive set of practice questions along with carefully explained answers. This book will not just prepare you for the C2090-600 exam but also help you troubleshoot day-to-day database administration challenges.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Answers

Question 1: The correct answer is 1. Authentication occurs at the server by using the OS security facility. However, the user ID and password that the user enters to attach to an instance or connect to a database stored on the server may be encrypted at the client before it is sent to the server for validation.

Question 2: The correct answer is 2. VERIFY_TRUSTED_CONTEXT_ROLE_FOR_USER (SESSION_USER, [RoleNameExp]) - Returns a value that indicates that the authorization ID identified by the SESSION_USER special register has acquired a role under a trusted connection associated with some trusted context, and that the role is in (or contained in any of) the role names specified by the list of RoleNameExp arguments.

Question 3: The correct answers are 4 and 5. The database manager configuration parameters keystore_type and keystore_location are key to implementing the encryption...