This book contains practice exams, plus detailed answers and explanations, covering every concept and technique for the advanced DBA Certification. Topics covered will include: advanced administration, high availability backup and recovery, performance tuning and scalability, networking and security, how to manage a large number of users and connections and large amounts of data, authentication, and encryption. People will need to pass the Fundamentals and DBA exams before they can take the Advanced DBA. IBM estimates that a large percentage of those who take the regular DBA exam will go on to seek Advanced DBA certification since the information covered with the Advanced DBA material will greatly improve their skills.
DWAINE R. SNOW has twelve years of experience implementing and tuning DB2 to support workloads from Web-based transactions up to multiterabyte data warehouses. Snow is the product manager for DB2 partitioned databases and is co-author of The DB2 Cluster Certification Guide.
THOMAS X. PHAN is an IBM Certified I/T Specialist in the IBM Data Management Consulting practice with over thirteen years of data processing experience. He specializes in relational database-related services including application design, logical and physical database design, and performance and tuning on numerous DB2 UDB platforms.