Mastering IBM MQ for Enterprise Integration and Automation
You’re under pressure. Systems need to talk, data must flow, and outages cost millions. You can't afford downtime, integration failures, or being left behind as enterprises modernise their messaging backbones. The stakes are high, and the margin for error is zero. Legacy integration tools are brittle. Point-to-point connections break. Teams work in silos. And yet, reliable, secure, scalable message queuing is the invisible engine that keeps global systems running-day in, day out. If you're not fluent in IBM MQ, you're not in control. The solution? Mastering IBM MQ for Enterprise Integration and Automation. This isn’t a theoretical overview. It’s a precision-engineered curriculum that transforms you from integration observer to trusted architect in under 30 days. You’ll go from concept to deployment-ready design, able to build, secure, monitor, and automate enterprise-grade messaging solutions with confidence. One senior integration lead at a global banking firm used this course to redesign their core transaction routing system. Within three weeks, they eliminated a 17-minute processing lag during peak loads and reduced message loss incidents by 98%. Their project was fast-tracked for board-level recognition. That kind of impact starts with mastery of IBM MQ. This course is your competitive advantage. It gives you the clarity, the structure, and the hands-on depth to deliver mission-critical integration outcomes. No fluff. No filler. Just actionable mastery of one of the most trusted messaging platforms in finance, healthcare, logistics, and government. You’ll gain a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, recognised across 95+ countries and cited in thousands of successful job applications, promotions, and consulting contracts. Employers don’t just value this certification-they actively seek it. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced. Immediate Online Access. Built for Real Professionals.
This is a self-paced, on-demand learning experience. There are no rigid schedules, no fixed start dates, and no time zones to navigate. You begin when you're ready-and progress at your own speed. Most learners complete the core curriculum in 4 to 6 weeks while working full-time. Many report seeing measurable results-like configuring a secure queue manager or debugging dead-letter queues-within the first 72 hours of starting. Lifetime Access & Future-Proof Updates Included
Once enrolled, you receive lifetime access to all course materials. As IBM MQ evolves and new integration patterns emerge, we update the content-automatically, at no extra cost. You’re not buying a moment. You’re investing in a permanent, up-to-date reference system that grows with your career. Available Anytime. Anywhere. On Any Device.
The entire course is mobile-friendly and accessible 24/7 from any device with a modern browser. Study during your commute, review architecture patterns between meetings, or pull up troubleshooting workflows during an outage. It’s designed for real-world conditions, not ideal circumstances. Expert Instructor Support with Real-World Credibility
You’re not learning in isolation. Our instructor team includes former IBM integration architects and lead messaging engineers with 20+ years of experience across Fortune 500 environments. You’ll receive direct, written guidance when you have questions-reviewed by experts who’ve configured high-availability MQ clusters under regulatory audit conditions. Certificate of Completion Issued by The Art of Service
Upon finishing the course, you’ll earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This credential is trusted globally, cited in LinkedIn profiles, resumes, and promotion packages. It signals technical depth, project discipline, and commitment to enterprise-grade standards-not just participation. Transparent Pricing. No Hidden Fees.
The price you see is the price you pay. There are no upsells, no subscription traps, and no additional charges for certification or lifetime access. What you invest covers everything: curriculum, support, updates, and credentialing. Easy Payment Options
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After enrolling, you’ll receive an order confirmation email. Your secure access details will be sent separately once your learning environment is fully provisioned. This ensures every learner receives a consistent, high-integrity experience. Zero-Risk Learning Guarantee: Satisfied or Refunded
We offer a full money-back guarantee. If you complete the first two modules and find the course doesn’t meet your expectations for depth, clarity, or real-world applicability, simply request a refund. No forms, no hassle, no questions asked. Your only risk is not starting. “Will This Work for Me?” Trust-Building Answer
This works even if you’re not an infrastructure specialist. Even if your organisation hasn’t adopted IBM MQ yet. Even if you’re transitioning from Tibco, ActiveMQ, or Azure Service Bus. Our learners include middleware engineers, DevOps leads, cloud architects, integration consultants, and technical project managers. One Salesforce integration specialist used the course to unify her company’s CRM with legacy SAP systems via IBM MQ, reducing data sync failures by 90%. Another former ETL developer in the healthcare sector landed a $35,000 pay bump after leading his hospital network’s migration to secure, auditable message queuing. This works because it’s built on repeatable frameworks, not isolated facts. You’ll learn how to design, deploy, troubleshoot, and scale-skills that transfer across industries and environments. You’re not betting on hype. You’re investing in a proven learning system with measurable outcomes, global credibility, and real-world validation. Let’s dive into what you’ll master.
Module 1: Foundations of Message Queuing and Integration - Understanding asynchronous communication in distributed systems
- Core principles of message-oriented middleware (MOM)
- Contrasting point-to-point vs publish-subscribe architectures
- Real-world use cases for enterprise messaging
- The role of queuing in resilience and scalability
- Overview of IBM MQ within the integration ecosystem
- Key terminology: queue, channel, message, cluster, JMS
- How IBM MQ ensures guaranteed delivery and message ordering
- Differences between IBM MQ and competing messaging platforms
- Introduction to transaction integrity and message persistence
- Understanding message formats and payload standards
- The importance of decoupling applications via messaging
- Common integration anti-patterns and how messaging solves them
- Introduction to enterprise service buses (ESB) and API gateways
- IBM MQ’s role in hybrid cloud and on-prem environments
Module 2: Core Architecture and System Design - IBM MQ architecture: queue managers, queues, and channels
- Deep dive into the queue manager lifecycle and configuration
- Creating and managing local, remote, and transmission queues
- Understanding queue depth, backpressure, and flow control
- Shared queues and queue-sharing groups for high availability
- Designing queue naming conventions for consistency and governance
- Understanding channel types: sender, receiver, server-connection
- Message channel agents and performance implications
- Clustering fundamentals and benefits for scalability
- Designing resilient topologies with redundancy and failover
- How IBM MQ handles message retention and expiry
- Sequence number management and message grouping
- Designing for message replay and auditability
- Understanding correlation IDs and message context propagation
- Integration patterns: request-reply, fire-and-forget, event-driven
Module 3: Installation, Configuration, and Administration - Planning your IBM MQ installation: sizing, hardware, and OS
- Step-by-step installation on Windows, Linux, and AIX
- Using the IBM MQ Explorer for GUI-based administration
- Command-line interface (MQSC) syntax and best practices
- Creating and starting a queue manager using crtmqm
- Configuring listeners and TCP/IP channels
- Setting up client connections and connection pooling
- Configuring queue manager logging and trace settings
- Managing storage: log files, circular vs linear logging
- Setting up dead-letter queues (DLQ) and error handling
- Defining channel authentication and security exits
- Backup and recovery strategies for queue managers
- Using saveqmgr and restoreqmgr commands
- Scheduling automated health checks and status reports
- Integrating with third-party monitoring tools
- Setting up multiple queue managers on one host
Module 4: Messaging Protocols and APIs - Overview of IBM MQ API types: MQI, JMS, .NET, REST
- Programming with IBM MQI: key function calls (MQCONN, MQOPEN)
- Sending and receiving messages using Put and Get operations
- Working with message descriptors (MQMD) and properties
- Implementing message persistence and non-persistence
- Using JMS with IBM MQ: queues, topics, and message selectors
- Configuring connection factories and destinations
- Integrating IBM MQ with Spring Boot and Jakarta EE
- Using the .NET client library in C# applications
- Securing client access with SSL/TLS and cipher specs
- Testing API integrations with MQ script commands
- Handling asynchronous message consumption with callbacks
- Implementing message transformation within applications
- Best practices for error handling in messaging code
- Using correlation IDs for message tracking across systems
- Testing message interfaces with mock queues and simulation
Module 5: Security and Compliance - Principles of secure messaging and data integrity
- Configuring SSL/TLS for queue manager and client channels
- Setting up cipher specifications and channel security policies
- Using digital certificates and keystores (JKS, CMS)
- Implementing LDAP and OAuth for user authentication
- Setting up object authorities (AUTHREC) and access control
- Role-based access control for queues and topics
- Auditing message flows and access logs for compliance
- Meeting GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX requirements with IBM MQ
- Encrypting message payloads at rest and in transit
- Secure communication between queue managers
- Using exit routines for custom security validation
- Implementing message signing for non-repudiation
- Securing administrative access to MQSC commands
- Best practices for password and credential management
- Securing IBM MQ in containerised environments
Module 6: High Availability and Disaster Recovery - Designing for uptime: HA principles and patterns
- Configuring queue-sharing groups on z/OS
- Using MQ active/standby queue managers
- Setting up replication between data centres
- Multi-instance queue managers on distributed platforms
- Understanding failover and fallback behaviour
- Quorum management and network availability detection
- Testing failover scenarios with controlled outages
- Configuring distributed queuing across sites
- Synchronising configuration changes across clusters
- Backup and restore workflows for disaster scenarios
- Implementing geographic redundancy for critical systems
- Monitoring replication lag and message consistency
- Designing for data sovereignty and cross-border compliance
- Automating recovery scripts and status checks
- Documenting DR procedures for audit readiness
Module 7: Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting - Essential monitoring tools: DISPLAY commands, MQSC
- Interpreting queue manager status and event messages
- Using performance statistics and accounting data
- Configuring application activity tracing
- Analyzing FFST (First Failure Symptom Report) logs
- Identifying and resolving channel stalls
- Diagnosing slow Put or Get performance
- Monitoring queue depth trends and thresholds
- Using IBM MQ probes and trace facilities
- Setting up alerts for queue full or channel down
- Correlating timestamps across distributed systems
- Using dead-letter queue analysis to fix routing issues
- Interpreting error codes like MQRC 2035, 2059, 2085
- Replicating issues in test environments
- Collecting diagnostic data for IBM support tickets
- Best practices for log rotation and retention
Module 8: Performance Tuning and Optimisation - Performance benchmarking and baseline setting
- Tuning log file size and buffer allocation
- Optimising channel batch sizes and sync intervals
- Configuring message compression and payload efficiency
- Using shared queues to balance load
- Tuning connection pooling for client applications
- Reducing message latency in high-throughput systems
- Scaling queue managers vertically and horizontally
- Monitoring CPU, memory, and I/O usage
- Using message grouping for ordered delivery without bottlenecks
- Optimising JMS selector performance
- Reducing network round trips with message bundling
- Tuning for low-latency financial transaction systems
- Analysing thread usage and connection contention
- Using persistence strategies to balance safety and speed
- Benchmarking PUT/GET rates under load
Module 9: Integration with Modern Platforms - Integrating IBM MQ with Apache Kafka
- Using MQ as a source or sink in Kafka Connect
- Bridge patterns: MQ to REST API gateways
- Exposing queues as HTTP endpoints using API Connect
- Using IBM App Connect for workflow automation
- Integrating MQ with IBM Integration Bus (IIB)
- Calling MQ from Node-RED flows
- Using MQ in microservices architectures
- Event-driven integration with IBM Event Streams
- Connecting MQ to cloud-native applications on Kubernetes
- Deploying MQ in containers using Docker and OpenShift
- Using Helm charts for MQ on Kubernetes
- Configuring persistent storage for stateful MQ pods
- Service mesh integration: Istio and MQ sidecars
- Securing inter-service communication with mTLS
- Observability: logging, metrics, traces in cloud-native MQ
Module 10: Automation and Operational Excellence - Automating MQ setup with shell and PowerShell scripts
- Using Ansible playbooks for MQ configuration management
- Infrastructure as Code: templating MQ definitions
- Automating queue creation and channel setup
- Using Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines with MQ testing
- Scheduled health checks and status dashboards
- Automated failover testing with scripts
- Self-healing workflows for queue manager restarts
- Automated backup and retention policies
- Integrating with PagerDuty and Opsgenie for alerts
- Using Python scripts to monitor and restart channels
- Automated certificate renewal and rotation
- Monitoring queue age and triggering alerts
- Generating compliance reports on access and usage
- Automated documentation of queue manager topology
- Using Git to version-control MQ configurations
Module 11: Advanced Topics and Enterprise Patterns - Message brokering and content-based routing
- Building request-response patterns with reply queues
- Implementing request aggregation and fan-out
- Using message propagation for audit trails
- Designing idempotent consumers to prevent duplicates
- Ensuring exactly-once delivery semantics
- Implementing message sequencing across clusters
- Using clusters for dynamic queue resolution
- Dynamic queues and temporary reply queues
- Message segmentation and reassembly
- Implementing store-and-forward with transmission queues
- Managing message groups for coordinated processing
- Using JMS message selectors for targeted delivery
- Batching messages to reduce overhead
- Designing for zero-downtime upgrades
- Using configuration managers in large estates
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Case Studies - Project 1: Build a secure transaction routing system
- Project 2: Integrate a legacy SAP system with a cloud CRM
- Project 3: Design a high-availability message backbone for banking
- Project 4: Migrate from ActiveMQ to IBM MQ with zero downtime
- Project 5: Automate a hospital’s patient data sync system
- Case study: Reducing order processing lag in e-commerce
- Case study: Achieving 99.999% uptime in logistics tracking
- Analysing message flow in a multi-region retail chain
- Designing secure queues for government audit systems
- Simulating disaster recovery in a financial institution
- Building a monitoring dashboard for queue health
- Implementing automated certificate rotation
- Creating a self-service provisioning portal for queues
- Using scripts to clone queue manager configurations
- Documenting integration architecture for compliance
- Presenting an MQ strategy to technical leadership
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Overview of IBM MQ certification paths (C9510-401, etc.)
- How this course aligns with official exam objectives
- Practice scenarios for real certification questions
- Building a portfolio of completed projects
- Adding your Certificate of Completion to LinkedIn
- Drafting resumes that highlight MQ integration expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews with real-world examples
- Gaining visibility in enterprise architecture reviews
- Becoming the go-to integration authority in your team
- Transitioning from operator to solution designer
- Consulting opportunities with IBM MQ skills
- Freelance and contracting pathways
- Joining IBM partner networks and integration communities
- Staying updated with IBM developer resources
- Continuing education in hybrid integration platforms
- Leveraging your certification in salary negotiations
Module 14: Next Steps, Ongoing Support, and Community - Accessing the private alumni network for graduates
- Receiving updates on new IBM MQ features and best practices
- Exclusive access to downloadable reference guides and checklists
- Monthly Q&A with integration architects
- Peer review of real-world designs and diagrams
- Continued access to updated troubleshooting workflows
- Advanced tip sheets on performance and security
- Downloadable templates for documentation and proposals
- Integration pattern library: ready-to-use blueprints
- Architecture decision records (ADRs) for common scenarios
- Access to a curated list of enterprise tools and add-ons
- Connecting with other IBM MQ professionals globally
- Opportunities to contribute to community knowledge base
- Invitations to special technical deep-dive briefings
- Progress tracking and achievement badges
- Setting long-term career goals with MQ mastery
- Understanding asynchronous communication in distributed systems
- Core principles of message-oriented middleware (MOM)
- Contrasting point-to-point vs publish-subscribe architectures
- Real-world use cases for enterprise messaging
- The role of queuing in resilience and scalability
- Overview of IBM MQ within the integration ecosystem
- Key terminology: queue, channel, message, cluster, JMS
- How IBM MQ ensures guaranteed delivery and message ordering
- Differences between IBM MQ and competing messaging platforms
- Introduction to transaction integrity and message persistence
- Understanding message formats and payload standards
- The importance of decoupling applications via messaging
- Common integration anti-patterns and how messaging solves them
- Introduction to enterprise service buses (ESB) and API gateways
- IBM MQ’s role in hybrid cloud and on-prem environments
Module 2: Core Architecture and System Design - IBM MQ architecture: queue managers, queues, and channels
- Deep dive into the queue manager lifecycle and configuration
- Creating and managing local, remote, and transmission queues
- Understanding queue depth, backpressure, and flow control
- Shared queues and queue-sharing groups for high availability
- Designing queue naming conventions for consistency and governance
- Understanding channel types: sender, receiver, server-connection
- Message channel agents and performance implications
- Clustering fundamentals and benefits for scalability
- Designing resilient topologies with redundancy and failover
- How IBM MQ handles message retention and expiry
- Sequence number management and message grouping
- Designing for message replay and auditability
- Understanding correlation IDs and message context propagation
- Integration patterns: request-reply, fire-and-forget, event-driven
Module 3: Installation, Configuration, and Administration - Planning your IBM MQ installation: sizing, hardware, and OS
- Step-by-step installation on Windows, Linux, and AIX
- Using the IBM MQ Explorer for GUI-based administration
- Command-line interface (MQSC) syntax and best practices
- Creating and starting a queue manager using crtmqm
- Configuring listeners and TCP/IP channels
- Setting up client connections and connection pooling
- Configuring queue manager logging and trace settings
- Managing storage: log files, circular vs linear logging
- Setting up dead-letter queues (DLQ) and error handling
- Defining channel authentication and security exits
- Backup and recovery strategies for queue managers
- Using saveqmgr and restoreqmgr commands
- Scheduling automated health checks and status reports
- Integrating with third-party monitoring tools
- Setting up multiple queue managers on one host
Module 4: Messaging Protocols and APIs - Overview of IBM MQ API types: MQI, JMS, .NET, REST
- Programming with IBM MQI: key function calls (MQCONN, MQOPEN)
- Sending and receiving messages using Put and Get operations
- Working with message descriptors (MQMD) and properties
- Implementing message persistence and non-persistence
- Using JMS with IBM MQ: queues, topics, and message selectors
- Configuring connection factories and destinations
- Integrating IBM MQ with Spring Boot and Jakarta EE
- Using the .NET client library in C# applications
- Securing client access with SSL/TLS and cipher specs
- Testing API integrations with MQ script commands
- Handling asynchronous message consumption with callbacks
- Implementing message transformation within applications
- Best practices for error handling in messaging code
- Using correlation IDs for message tracking across systems
- Testing message interfaces with mock queues and simulation
Module 5: Security and Compliance - Principles of secure messaging and data integrity
- Configuring SSL/TLS for queue manager and client channels
- Setting up cipher specifications and channel security policies
- Using digital certificates and keystores (JKS, CMS)
- Implementing LDAP and OAuth for user authentication
- Setting up object authorities (AUTHREC) and access control
- Role-based access control for queues and topics
- Auditing message flows and access logs for compliance
- Meeting GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX requirements with IBM MQ
- Encrypting message payloads at rest and in transit
- Secure communication between queue managers
- Using exit routines for custom security validation
- Implementing message signing for non-repudiation
- Securing administrative access to MQSC commands
- Best practices for password and credential management
- Securing IBM MQ in containerised environments
Module 6: High Availability and Disaster Recovery - Designing for uptime: HA principles and patterns
- Configuring queue-sharing groups on z/OS
- Using MQ active/standby queue managers
- Setting up replication between data centres
- Multi-instance queue managers on distributed platforms
- Understanding failover and fallback behaviour
- Quorum management and network availability detection
- Testing failover scenarios with controlled outages
- Configuring distributed queuing across sites
- Synchronising configuration changes across clusters
- Backup and restore workflows for disaster scenarios
- Implementing geographic redundancy for critical systems
- Monitoring replication lag and message consistency
- Designing for data sovereignty and cross-border compliance
- Automating recovery scripts and status checks
- Documenting DR procedures for audit readiness
Module 7: Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting - Essential monitoring tools: DISPLAY commands, MQSC
- Interpreting queue manager status and event messages
- Using performance statistics and accounting data
- Configuring application activity tracing
- Analyzing FFST (First Failure Symptom Report) logs
- Identifying and resolving channel stalls
- Diagnosing slow Put or Get performance
- Monitoring queue depth trends and thresholds
- Using IBM MQ probes and trace facilities
- Setting up alerts for queue full or channel down
- Correlating timestamps across distributed systems
- Using dead-letter queue analysis to fix routing issues
- Interpreting error codes like MQRC 2035, 2059, 2085
- Replicating issues in test environments
- Collecting diagnostic data for IBM support tickets
- Best practices for log rotation and retention
Module 8: Performance Tuning and Optimisation - Performance benchmarking and baseline setting
- Tuning log file size and buffer allocation
- Optimising channel batch sizes and sync intervals
- Configuring message compression and payload efficiency
- Using shared queues to balance load
- Tuning connection pooling for client applications
- Reducing message latency in high-throughput systems
- Scaling queue managers vertically and horizontally
- Monitoring CPU, memory, and I/O usage
- Using message grouping for ordered delivery without bottlenecks
- Optimising JMS selector performance
- Reducing network round trips with message bundling
- Tuning for low-latency financial transaction systems
- Analysing thread usage and connection contention
- Using persistence strategies to balance safety and speed
- Benchmarking PUT/GET rates under load
Module 9: Integration with Modern Platforms - Integrating IBM MQ with Apache Kafka
- Using MQ as a source or sink in Kafka Connect
- Bridge patterns: MQ to REST API gateways
- Exposing queues as HTTP endpoints using API Connect
- Using IBM App Connect for workflow automation
- Integrating MQ with IBM Integration Bus (IIB)
- Calling MQ from Node-RED flows
- Using MQ in microservices architectures
- Event-driven integration with IBM Event Streams
- Connecting MQ to cloud-native applications on Kubernetes
- Deploying MQ in containers using Docker and OpenShift
- Using Helm charts for MQ on Kubernetes
- Configuring persistent storage for stateful MQ pods
- Service mesh integration: Istio and MQ sidecars
- Securing inter-service communication with mTLS
- Observability: logging, metrics, traces in cloud-native MQ
Module 10: Automation and Operational Excellence - Automating MQ setup with shell and PowerShell scripts
- Using Ansible playbooks for MQ configuration management
- Infrastructure as Code: templating MQ definitions
- Automating queue creation and channel setup
- Using Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines with MQ testing
- Scheduled health checks and status dashboards
- Automated failover testing with scripts
- Self-healing workflows for queue manager restarts
- Automated backup and retention policies
- Integrating with PagerDuty and Opsgenie for alerts
- Using Python scripts to monitor and restart channels
- Automated certificate renewal and rotation
- Monitoring queue age and triggering alerts
- Generating compliance reports on access and usage
- Automated documentation of queue manager topology
- Using Git to version-control MQ configurations
Module 11: Advanced Topics and Enterprise Patterns - Message brokering and content-based routing
- Building request-response patterns with reply queues
- Implementing request aggregation and fan-out
- Using message propagation for audit trails
- Designing idempotent consumers to prevent duplicates
- Ensuring exactly-once delivery semantics
- Implementing message sequencing across clusters
- Using clusters for dynamic queue resolution
- Dynamic queues and temporary reply queues
- Message segmentation and reassembly
- Implementing store-and-forward with transmission queues
- Managing message groups for coordinated processing
- Using JMS message selectors for targeted delivery
- Batching messages to reduce overhead
- Designing for zero-downtime upgrades
- Using configuration managers in large estates
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Case Studies - Project 1: Build a secure transaction routing system
- Project 2: Integrate a legacy SAP system with a cloud CRM
- Project 3: Design a high-availability message backbone for banking
- Project 4: Migrate from ActiveMQ to IBM MQ with zero downtime
- Project 5: Automate a hospital’s patient data sync system
- Case study: Reducing order processing lag in e-commerce
- Case study: Achieving 99.999% uptime in logistics tracking
- Analysing message flow in a multi-region retail chain
- Designing secure queues for government audit systems
- Simulating disaster recovery in a financial institution
- Building a monitoring dashboard for queue health
- Implementing automated certificate rotation
- Creating a self-service provisioning portal for queues
- Using scripts to clone queue manager configurations
- Documenting integration architecture for compliance
- Presenting an MQ strategy to technical leadership
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Overview of IBM MQ certification paths (C9510-401, etc.)
- How this course aligns with official exam objectives
- Practice scenarios for real certification questions
- Building a portfolio of completed projects
- Adding your Certificate of Completion to LinkedIn
- Drafting resumes that highlight MQ integration expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews with real-world examples
- Gaining visibility in enterprise architecture reviews
- Becoming the go-to integration authority in your team
- Transitioning from operator to solution designer
- Consulting opportunities with IBM MQ skills
- Freelance and contracting pathways
- Joining IBM partner networks and integration communities
- Staying updated with IBM developer resources
- Continuing education in hybrid integration platforms
- Leveraging your certification in salary negotiations
Module 14: Next Steps, Ongoing Support, and Community - Accessing the private alumni network for graduates
- Receiving updates on new IBM MQ features and best practices
- Exclusive access to downloadable reference guides and checklists
- Monthly Q&A with integration architects
- Peer review of real-world designs and diagrams
- Continued access to updated troubleshooting workflows
- Advanced tip sheets on performance and security
- Downloadable templates for documentation and proposals
- Integration pattern library: ready-to-use blueprints
- Architecture decision records (ADRs) for common scenarios
- Access to a curated list of enterprise tools and add-ons
- Connecting with other IBM MQ professionals globally
- Opportunities to contribute to community knowledge base
- Invitations to special technical deep-dive briefings
- Progress tracking and achievement badges
- Setting long-term career goals with MQ mastery
- Planning your IBM MQ installation: sizing, hardware, and OS
- Step-by-step installation on Windows, Linux, and AIX
- Using the IBM MQ Explorer for GUI-based administration
- Command-line interface (MQSC) syntax and best practices
- Creating and starting a queue manager using crtmqm
- Configuring listeners and TCP/IP channels
- Setting up client connections and connection pooling
- Configuring queue manager logging and trace settings
- Managing storage: log files, circular vs linear logging
- Setting up dead-letter queues (DLQ) and error handling
- Defining channel authentication and security exits
- Backup and recovery strategies for queue managers
- Using saveqmgr and restoreqmgr commands
- Scheduling automated health checks and status reports
- Integrating with third-party monitoring tools
- Setting up multiple queue managers on one host
Module 4: Messaging Protocols and APIs - Overview of IBM MQ API types: MQI, JMS, .NET, REST
- Programming with IBM MQI: key function calls (MQCONN, MQOPEN)
- Sending and receiving messages using Put and Get operations
- Working with message descriptors (MQMD) and properties
- Implementing message persistence and non-persistence
- Using JMS with IBM MQ: queues, topics, and message selectors
- Configuring connection factories and destinations
- Integrating IBM MQ with Spring Boot and Jakarta EE
- Using the .NET client library in C# applications
- Securing client access with SSL/TLS and cipher specs
- Testing API integrations with MQ script commands
- Handling asynchronous message consumption with callbacks
- Implementing message transformation within applications
- Best practices for error handling in messaging code
- Using correlation IDs for message tracking across systems
- Testing message interfaces with mock queues and simulation
Module 5: Security and Compliance - Principles of secure messaging and data integrity
- Configuring SSL/TLS for queue manager and client channels
- Setting up cipher specifications and channel security policies
- Using digital certificates and keystores (JKS, CMS)
- Implementing LDAP and OAuth for user authentication
- Setting up object authorities (AUTHREC) and access control
- Role-based access control for queues and topics
- Auditing message flows and access logs for compliance
- Meeting GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX requirements with IBM MQ
- Encrypting message payloads at rest and in transit
- Secure communication between queue managers
- Using exit routines for custom security validation
- Implementing message signing for non-repudiation
- Securing administrative access to MQSC commands
- Best practices for password and credential management
- Securing IBM MQ in containerised environments
Module 6: High Availability and Disaster Recovery - Designing for uptime: HA principles and patterns
- Configuring queue-sharing groups on z/OS
- Using MQ active/standby queue managers
- Setting up replication between data centres
- Multi-instance queue managers on distributed platforms
- Understanding failover and fallback behaviour
- Quorum management and network availability detection
- Testing failover scenarios with controlled outages
- Configuring distributed queuing across sites
- Synchronising configuration changes across clusters
- Backup and restore workflows for disaster scenarios
- Implementing geographic redundancy for critical systems
- Monitoring replication lag and message consistency
- Designing for data sovereignty and cross-border compliance
- Automating recovery scripts and status checks
- Documenting DR procedures for audit readiness
Module 7: Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting - Essential monitoring tools: DISPLAY commands, MQSC
- Interpreting queue manager status and event messages
- Using performance statistics and accounting data
- Configuring application activity tracing
- Analyzing FFST (First Failure Symptom Report) logs
- Identifying and resolving channel stalls
- Diagnosing slow Put or Get performance
- Monitoring queue depth trends and thresholds
- Using IBM MQ probes and trace facilities
- Setting up alerts for queue full or channel down
- Correlating timestamps across distributed systems
- Using dead-letter queue analysis to fix routing issues
- Interpreting error codes like MQRC 2035, 2059, 2085
- Replicating issues in test environments
- Collecting diagnostic data for IBM support tickets
- Best practices for log rotation and retention
Module 8: Performance Tuning and Optimisation - Performance benchmarking and baseline setting
- Tuning log file size and buffer allocation
- Optimising channel batch sizes and sync intervals
- Configuring message compression and payload efficiency
- Using shared queues to balance load
- Tuning connection pooling for client applications
- Reducing message latency in high-throughput systems
- Scaling queue managers vertically and horizontally
- Monitoring CPU, memory, and I/O usage
- Using message grouping for ordered delivery without bottlenecks
- Optimising JMS selector performance
- Reducing network round trips with message bundling
- Tuning for low-latency financial transaction systems
- Analysing thread usage and connection contention
- Using persistence strategies to balance safety and speed
- Benchmarking PUT/GET rates under load
Module 9: Integration with Modern Platforms - Integrating IBM MQ with Apache Kafka
- Using MQ as a source or sink in Kafka Connect
- Bridge patterns: MQ to REST API gateways
- Exposing queues as HTTP endpoints using API Connect
- Using IBM App Connect for workflow automation
- Integrating MQ with IBM Integration Bus (IIB)
- Calling MQ from Node-RED flows
- Using MQ in microservices architectures
- Event-driven integration with IBM Event Streams
- Connecting MQ to cloud-native applications on Kubernetes
- Deploying MQ in containers using Docker and OpenShift
- Using Helm charts for MQ on Kubernetes
- Configuring persistent storage for stateful MQ pods
- Service mesh integration: Istio and MQ sidecars
- Securing inter-service communication with mTLS
- Observability: logging, metrics, traces in cloud-native MQ
Module 10: Automation and Operational Excellence - Automating MQ setup with shell and PowerShell scripts
- Using Ansible playbooks for MQ configuration management
- Infrastructure as Code: templating MQ definitions
- Automating queue creation and channel setup
- Using Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines with MQ testing
- Scheduled health checks and status dashboards
- Automated failover testing with scripts
- Self-healing workflows for queue manager restarts
- Automated backup and retention policies
- Integrating with PagerDuty and Opsgenie for alerts
- Using Python scripts to monitor and restart channels
- Automated certificate renewal and rotation
- Monitoring queue age and triggering alerts
- Generating compliance reports on access and usage
- Automated documentation of queue manager topology
- Using Git to version-control MQ configurations
Module 11: Advanced Topics and Enterprise Patterns - Message brokering and content-based routing
- Building request-response patterns with reply queues
- Implementing request aggregation and fan-out
- Using message propagation for audit trails
- Designing idempotent consumers to prevent duplicates
- Ensuring exactly-once delivery semantics
- Implementing message sequencing across clusters
- Using clusters for dynamic queue resolution
- Dynamic queues and temporary reply queues
- Message segmentation and reassembly
- Implementing store-and-forward with transmission queues
- Managing message groups for coordinated processing
- Using JMS message selectors for targeted delivery
- Batching messages to reduce overhead
- Designing for zero-downtime upgrades
- Using configuration managers in large estates
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Case Studies - Project 1: Build a secure transaction routing system
- Project 2: Integrate a legacy SAP system with a cloud CRM
- Project 3: Design a high-availability message backbone for banking
- Project 4: Migrate from ActiveMQ to IBM MQ with zero downtime
- Project 5: Automate a hospital’s patient data sync system
- Case study: Reducing order processing lag in e-commerce
- Case study: Achieving 99.999% uptime in logistics tracking
- Analysing message flow in a multi-region retail chain
- Designing secure queues for government audit systems
- Simulating disaster recovery in a financial institution
- Building a monitoring dashboard for queue health
- Implementing automated certificate rotation
- Creating a self-service provisioning portal for queues
- Using scripts to clone queue manager configurations
- Documenting integration architecture for compliance
- Presenting an MQ strategy to technical leadership
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Overview of IBM MQ certification paths (C9510-401, etc.)
- How this course aligns with official exam objectives
- Practice scenarios for real certification questions
- Building a portfolio of completed projects
- Adding your Certificate of Completion to LinkedIn
- Drafting resumes that highlight MQ integration expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews with real-world examples
- Gaining visibility in enterprise architecture reviews
- Becoming the go-to integration authority in your team
- Transitioning from operator to solution designer
- Consulting opportunities with IBM MQ skills
- Freelance and contracting pathways
- Joining IBM partner networks and integration communities
- Staying updated with IBM developer resources
- Continuing education in hybrid integration platforms
- Leveraging your certification in salary negotiations
Module 14: Next Steps, Ongoing Support, and Community - Accessing the private alumni network for graduates
- Receiving updates on new IBM MQ features and best practices
- Exclusive access to downloadable reference guides and checklists
- Monthly Q&A with integration architects
- Peer review of real-world designs and diagrams
- Continued access to updated troubleshooting workflows
- Advanced tip sheets on performance and security
- Downloadable templates for documentation and proposals
- Integration pattern library: ready-to-use blueprints
- Architecture decision records (ADRs) for common scenarios
- Access to a curated list of enterprise tools and add-ons
- Connecting with other IBM MQ professionals globally
- Opportunities to contribute to community knowledge base
- Invitations to special technical deep-dive briefings
- Progress tracking and achievement badges
- Setting long-term career goals with MQ mastery
- Principles of secure messaging and data integrity
- Configuring SSL/TLS for queue manager and client channels
- Setting up cipher specifications and channel security policies
- Using digital certificates and keystores (JKS, CMS)
- Implementing LDAP and OAuth for user authentication
- Setting up object authorities (AUTHREC) and access control
- Role-based access control for queues and topics
- Auditing message flows and access logs for compliance
- Meeting GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX requirements with IBM MQ
- Encrypting message payloads at rest and in transit
- Secure communication between queue managers
- Using exit routines for custom security validation
- Implementing message signing for non-repudiation
- Securing administrative access to MQSC commands
- Best practices for password and credential management
- Securing IBM MQ in containerised environments
Module 6: High Availability and Disaster Recovery - Designing for uptime: HA principles and patterns
- Configuring queue-sharing groups on z/OS
- Using MQ active/standby queue managers
- Setting up replication between data centres
- Multi-instance queue managers on distributed platforms
- Understanding failover and fallback behaviour
- Quorum management and network availability detection
- Testing failover scenarios with controlled outages
- Configuring distributed queuing across sites
- Synchronising configuration changes across clusters
- Backup and restore workflows for disaster scenarios
- Implementing geographic redundancy for critical systems
- Monitoring replication lag and message consistency
- Designing for data sovereignty and cross-border compliance
- Automating recovery scripts and status checks
- Documenting DR procedures for audit readiness
Module 7: Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting - Essential monitoring tools: DISPLAY commands, MQSC
- Interpreting queue manager status and event messages
- Using performance statistics and accounting data
- Configuring application activity tracing
- Analyzing FFST (First Failure Symptom Report) logs
- Identifying and resolving channel stalls
- Diagnosing slow Put or Get performance
- Monitoring queue depth trends and thresholds
- Using IBM MQ probes and trace facilities
- Setting up alerts for queue full or channel down
- Correlating timestamps across distributed systems
- Using dead-letter queue analysis to fix routing issues
- Interpreting error codes like MQRC 2035, 2059, 2085
- Replicating issues in test environments
- Collecting diagnostic data for IBM support tickets
- Best practices for log rotation and retention
Module 8: Performance Tuning and Optimisation - Performance benchmarking and baseline setting
- Tuning log file size and buffer allocation
- Optimising channel batch sizes and sync intervals
- Configuring message compression and payload efficiency
- Using shared queues to balance load
- Tuning connection pooling for client applications
- Reducing message latency in high-throughput systems
- Scaling queue managers vertically and horizontally
- Monitoring CPU, memory, and I/O usage
- Using message grouping for ordered delivery without bottlenecks
- Optimising JMS selector performance
- Reducing network round trips with message bundling
- Tuning for low-latency financial transaction systems
- Analysing thread usage and connection contention
- Using persistence strategies to balance safety and speed
- Benchmarking PUT/GET rates under load
Module 9: Integration with Modern Platforms - Integrating IBM MQ with Apache Kafka
- Using MQ as a source or sink in Kafka Connect
- Bridge patterns: MQ to REST API gateways
- Exposing queues as HTTP endpoints using API Connect
- Using IBM App Connect for workflow automation
- Integrating MQ with IBM Integration Bus (IIB)
- Calling MQ from Node-RED flows
- Using MQ in microservices architectures
- Event-driven integration with IBM Event Streams
- Connecting MQ to cloud-native applications on Kubernetes
- Deploying MQ in containers using Docker and OpenShift
- Using Helm charts for MQ on Kubernetes
- Configuring persistent storage for stateful MQ pods
- Service mesh integration: Istio and MQ sidecars
- Securing inter-service communication with mTLS
- Observability: logging, metrics, traces in cloud-native MQ
Module 10: Automation and Operational Excellence - Automating MQ setup with shell and PowerShell scripts
- Using Ansible playbooks for MQ configuration management
- Infrastructure as Code: templating MQ definitions
- Automating queue creation and channel setup
- Using Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines with MQ testing
- Scheduled health checks and status dashboards
- Automated failover testing with scripts
- Self-healing workflows for queue manager restarts
- Automated backup and retention policies
- Integrating with PagerDuty and Opsgenie for alerts
- Using Python scripts to monitor and restart channels
- Automated certificate renewal and rotation
- Monitoring queue age and triggering alerts
- Generating compliance reports on access and usage
- Automated documentation of queue manager topology
- Using Git to version-control MQ configurations
Module 11: Advanced Topics and Enterprise Patterns - Message brokering and content-based routing
- Building request-response patterns with reply queues
- Implementing request aggregation and fan-out
- Using message propagation for audit trails
- Designing idempotent consumers to prevent duplicates
- Ensuring exactly-once delivery semantics
- Implementing message sequencing across clusters
- Using clusters for dynamic queue resolution
- Dynamic queues and temporary reply queues
- Message segmentation and reassembly
- Implementing store-and-forward with transmission queues
- Managing message groups for coordinated processing
- Using JMS message selectors for targeted delivery
- Batching messages to reduce overhead
- Designing for zero-downtime upgrades
- Using configuration managers in large estates
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Case Studies - Project 1: Build a secure transaction routing system
- Project 2: Integrate a legacy SAP system with a cloud CRM
- Project 3: Design a high-availability message backbone for banking
- Project 4: Migrate from ActiveMQ to IBM MQ with zero downtime
- Project 5: Automate a hospital’s patient data sync system
- Case study: Reducing order processing lag in e-commerce
- Case study: Achieving 99.999% uptime in logistics tracking
- Analysing message flow in a multi-region retail chain
- Designing secure queues for government audit systems
- Simulating disaster recovery in a financial institution
- Building a monitoring dashboard for queue health
- Implementing automated certificate rotation
- Creating a self-service provisioning portal for queues
- Using scripts to clone queue manager configurations
- Documenting integration architecture for compliance
- Presenting an MQ strategy to technical leadership
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Overview of IBM MQ certification paths (C9510-401, etc.)
- How this course aligns with official exam objectives
- Practice scenarios for real certification questions
- Building a portfolio of completed projects
- Adding your Certificate of Completion to LinkedIn
- Drafting resumes that highlight MQ integration expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews with real-world examples
- Gaining visibility in enterprise architecture reviews
- Becoming the go-to integration authority in your team
- Transitioning from operator to solution designer
- Consulting opportunities with IBM MQ skills
- Freelance and contracting pathways
- Joining IBM partner networks and integration communities
- Staying updated with IBM developer resources
- Continuing education in hybrid integration platforms
- Leveraging your certification in salary negotiations
Module 14: Next Steps, Ongoing Support, and Community - Accessing the private alumni network for graduates
- Receiving updates on new IBM MQ features and best practices
- Exclusive access to downloadable reference guides and checklists
- Monthly Q&A with integration architects
- Peer review of real-world designs and diagrams
- Continued access to updated troubleshooting workflows
- Advanced tip sheets on performance and security
- Downloadable templates for documentation and proposals
- Integration pattern library: ready-to-use blueprints
- Architecture decision records (ADRs) for common scenarios
- Access to a curated list of enterprise tools and add-ons
- Connecting with other IBM MQ professionals globally
- Opportunities to contribute to community knowledge base
- Invitations to special technical deep-dive briefings
- Progress tracking and achievement badges
- Setting long-term career goals with MQ mastery
- Essential monitoring tools: DISPLAY commands, MQSC
- Interpreting queue manager status and event messages
- Using performance statistics and accounting data
- Configuring application activity tracing
- Analyzing FFST (First Failure Symptom Report) logs
- Identifying and resolving channel stalls
- Diagnosing slow Put or Get performance
- Monitoring queue depth trends and thresholds
- Using IBM MQ probes and trace facilities
- Setting up alerts for queue full or channel down
- Correlating timestamps across distributed systems
- Using dead-letter queue analysis to fix routing issues
- Interpreting error codes like MQRC 2035, 2059, 2085
- Replicating issues in test environments
- Collecting diagnostic data for IBM support tickets
- Best practices for log rotation and retention
Module 8: Performance Tuning and Optimisation - Performance benchmarking and baseline setting
- Tuning log file size and buffer allocation
- Optimising channel batch sizes and sync intervals
- Configuring message compression and payload efficiency
- Using shared queues to balance load
- Tuning connection pooling for client applications
- Reducing message latency in high-throughput systems
- Scaling queue managers vertically and horizontally
- Monitoring CPU, memory, and I/O usage
- Using message grouping for ordered delivery without bottlenecks
- Optimising JMS selector performance
- Reducing network round trips with message bundling
- Tuning for low-latency financial transaction systems
- Analysing thread usage and connection contention
- Using persistence strategies to balance safety and speed
- Benchmarking PUT/GET rates under load
Module 9: Integration with Modern Platforms - Integrating IBM MQ with Apache Kafka
- Using MQ as a source or sink in Kafka Connect
- Bridge patterns: MQ to REST API gateways
- Exposing queues as HTTP endpoints using API Connect
- Using IBM App Connect for workflow automation
- Integrating MQ with IBM Integration Bus (IIB)
- Calling MQ from Node-RED flows
- Using MQ in microservices architectures
- Event-driven integration with IBM Event Streams
- Connecting MQ to cloud-native applications on Kubernetes
- Deploying MQ in containers using Docker and OpenShift
- Using Helm charts for MQ on Kubernetes
- Configuring persistent storage for stateful MQ pods
- Service mesh integration: Istio and MQ sidecars
- Securing inter-service communication with mTLS
- Observability: logging, metrics, traces in cloud-native MQ
Module 10: Automation and Operational Excellence - Automating MQ setup with shell and PowerShell scripts
- Using Ansible playbooks for MQ configuration management
- Infrastructure as Code: templating MQ definitions
- Automating queue creation and channel setup
- Using Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines with MQ testing
- Scheduled health checks and status dashboards
- Automated failover testing with scripts
- Self-healing workflows for queue manager restarts
- Automated backup and retention policies
- Integrating with PagerDuty and Opsgenie for alerts
- Using Python scripts to monitor and restart channels
- Automated certificate renewal and rotation
- Monitoring queue age and triggering alerts
- Generating compliance reports on access and usage
- Automated documentation of queue manager topology
- Using Git to version-control MQ configurations
Module 11: Advanced Topics and Enterprise Patterns - Message brokering and content-based routing
- Building request-response patterns with reply queues
- Implementing request aggregation and fan-out
- Using message propagation for audit trails
- Designing idempotent consumers to prevent duplicates
- Ensuring exactly-once delivery semantics
- Implementing message sequencing across clusters
- Using clusters for dynamic queue resolution
- Dynamic queues and temporary reply queues
- Message segmentation and reassembly
- Implementing store-and-forward with transmission queues
- Managing message groups for coordinated processing
- Using JMS message selectors for targeted delivery
- Batching messages to reduce overhead
- Designing for zero-downtime upgrades
- Using configuration managers in large estates
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Case Studies - Project 1: Build a secure transaction routing system
- Project 2: Integrate a legacy SAP system with a cloud CRM
- Project 3: Design a high-availability message backbone for banking
- Project 4: Migrate from ActiveMQ to IBM MQ with zero downtime
- Project 5: Automate a hospital’s patient data sync system
- Case study: Reducing order processing lag in e-commerce
- Case study: Achieving 99.999% uptime in logistics tracking
- Analysing message flow in a multi-region retail chain
- Designing secure queues for government audit systems
- Simulating disaster recovery in a financial institution
- Building a monitoring dashboard for queue health
- Implementing automated certificate rotation
- Creating a self-service provisioning portal for queues
- Using scripts to clone queue manager configurations
- Documenting integration architecture for compliance
- Presenting an MQ strategy to technical leadership
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Overview of IBM MQ certification paths (C9510-401, etc.)
- How this course aligns with official exam objectives
- Practice scenarios for real certification questions
- Building a portfolio of completed projects
- Adding your Certificate of Completion to LinkedIn
- Drafting resumes that highlight MQ integration expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews with real-world examples
- Gaining visibility in enterprise architecture reviews
- Becoming the go-to integration authority in your team
- Transitioning from operator to solution designer
- Consulting opportunities with IBM MQ skills
- Freelance and contracting pathways
- Joining IBM partner networks and integration communities
- Staying updated with IBM developer resources
- Continuing education in hybrid integration platforms
- Leveraging your certification in salary negotiations
Module 14: Next Steps, Ongoing Support, and Community - Accessing the private alumni network for graduates
- Receiving updates on new IBM MQ features and best practices
- Exclusive access to downloadable reference guides and checklists
- Monthly Q&A with integration architects
- Peer review of real-world designs and diagrams
- Continued access to updated troubleshooting workflows
- Advanced tip sheets on performance and security
- Downloadable templates for documentation and proposals
- Integration pattern library: ready-to-use blueprints
- Architecture decision records (ADRs) for common scenarios
- Access to a curated list of enterprise tools and add-ons
- Connecting with other IBM MQ professionals globally
- Opportunities to contribute to community knowledge base
- Invitations to special technical deep-dive briefings
- Progress tracking and achievement badges
- Setting long-term career goals with MQ mastery
- Integrating IBM MQ with Apache Kafka
- Using MQ as a source or sink in Kafka Connect
- Bridge patterns: MQ to REST API gateways
- Exposing queues as HTTP endpoints using API Connect
- Using IBM App Connect for workflow automation
- Integrating MQ with IBM Integration Bus (IIB)
- Calling MQ from Node-RED flows
- Using MQ in microservices architectures
- Event-driven integration with IBM Event Streams
- Connecting MQ to cloud-native applications on Kubernetes
- Deploying MQ in containers using Docker and OpenShift
- Using Helm charts for MQ on Kubernetes
- Configuring persistent storage for stateful MQ pods
- Service mesh integration: Istio and MQ sidecars
- Securing inter-service communication with mTLS
- Observability: logging, metrics, traces in cloud-native MQ
Module 10: Automation and Operational Excellence - Automating MQ setup with shell and PowerShell scripts
- Using Ansible playbooks for MQ configuration management
- Infrastructure as Code: templating MQ definitions
- Automating queue creation and channel setup
- Using Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines with MQ testing
- Scheduled health checks and status dashboards
- Automated failover testing with scripts
- Self-healing workflows for queue manager restarts
- Automated backup and retention policies
- Integrating with PagerDuty and Opsgenie for alerts
- Using Python scripts to monitor and restart channels
- Automated certificate renewal and rotation
- Monitoring queue age and triggering alerts
- Generating compliance reports on access and usage
- Automated documentation of queue manager topology
- Using Git to version-control MQ configurations
Module 11: Advanced Topics and Enterprise Patterns - Message brokering and content-based routing
- Building request-response patterns with reply queues
- Implementing request aggregation and fan-out
- Using message propagation for audit trails
- Designing idempotent consumers to prevent duplicates
- Ensuring exactly-once delivery semantics
- Implementing message sequencing across clusters
- Using clusters for dynamic queue resolution
- Dynamic queues and temporary reply queues
- Message segmentation and reassembly
- Implementing store-and-forward with transmission queues
- Managing message groups for coordinated processing
- Using JMS message selectors for targeted delivery
- Batching messages to reduce overhead
- Designing for zero-downtime upgrades
- Using configuration managers in large estates
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Case Studies - Project 1: Build a secure transaction routing system
- Project 2: Integrate a legacy SAP system with a cloud CRM
- Project 3: Design a high-availability message backbone for banking
- Project 4: Migrate from ActiveMQ to IBM MQ with zero downtime
- Project 5: Automate a hospital’s patient data sync system
- Case study: Reducing order processing lag in e-commerce
- Case study: Achieving 99.999% uptime in logistics tracking
- Analysing message flow in a multi-region retail chain
- Designing secure queues for government audit systems
- Simulating disaster recovery in a financial institution
- Building a monitoring dashboard for queue health
- Implementing automated certificate rotation
- Creating a self-service provisioning portal for queues
- Using scripts to clone queue manager configurations
- Documenting integration architecture for compliance
- Presenting an MQ strategy to technical leadership
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Overview of IBM MQ certification paths (C9510-401, etc.)
- How this course aligns with official exam objectives
- Practice scenarios for real certification questions
- Building a portfolio of completed projects
- Adding your Certificate of Completion to LinkedIn
- Drafting resumes that highlight MQ integration expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews with real-world examples
- Gaining visibility in enterprise architecture reviews
- Becoming the go-to integration authority in your team
- Transitioning from operator to solution designer
- Consulting opportunities with IBM MQ skills
- Freelance and contracting pathways
- Joining IBM partner networks and integration communities
- Staying updated with IBM developer resources
- Continuing education in hybrid integration platforms
- Leveraging your certification in salary negotiations
Module 14: Next Steps, Ongoing Support, and Community - Accessing the private alumni network for graduates
- Receiving updates on new IBM MQ features and best practices
- Exclusive access to downloadable reference guides and checklists
- Monthly Q&A with integration architects
- Peer review of real-world designs and diagrams
- Continued access to updated troubleshooting workflows
- Advanced tip sheets on performance and security
- Downloadable templates for documentation and proposals
- Integration pattern library: ready-to-use blueprints
- Architecture decision records (ADRs) for common scenarios
- Access to a curated list of enterprise tools and add-ons
- Connecting with other IBM MQ professionals globally
- Opportunities to contribute to community knowledge base
- Invitations to special technical deep-dive briefings
- Progress tracking and achievement badges
- Setting long-term career goals with MQ mastery
- Message brokering and content-based routing
- Building request-response patterns with reply queues
- Implementing request aggregation and fan-out
- Using message propagation for audit trails
- Designing idempotent consumers to prevent duplicates
- Ensuring exactly-once delivery semantics
- Implementing message sequencing across clusters
- Using clusters for dynamic queue resolution
- Dynamic queues and temporary reply queues
- Message segmentation and reassembly
- Implementing store-and-forward with transmission queues
- Managing message groups for coordinated processing
- Using JMS message selectors for targeted delivery
- Batching messages to reduce overhead
- Designing for zero-downtime upgrades
- Using configuration managers in large estates
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Case Studies - Project 1: Build a secure transaction routing system
- Project 2: Integrate a legacy SAP system with a cloud CRM
- Project 3: Design a high-availability message backbone for banking
- Project 4: Migrate from ActiveMQ to IBM MQ with zero downtime
- Project 5: Automate a hospital’s patient data sync system
- Case study: Reducing order processing lag in e-commerce
- Case study: Achieving 99.999% uptime in logistics tracking
- Analysing message flow in a multi-region retail chain
- Designing secure queues for government audit systems
- Simulating disaster recovery in a financial institution
- Building a monitoring dashboard for queue health
- Implementing automated certificate rotation
- Creating a self-service provisioning portal for queues
- Using scripts to clone queue manager configurations
- Documenting integration architecture for compliance
- Presenting an MQ strategy to technical leadership
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Overview of IBM MQ certification paths (C9510-401, etc.)
- How this course aligns with official exam objectives
- Practice scenarios for real certification questions
- Building a portfolio of completed projects
- Adding your Certificate of Completion to LinkedIn
- Drafting resumes that highlight MQ integration expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews with real-world examples
- Gaining visibility in enterprise architecture reviews
- Becoming the go-to integration authority in your team
- Transitioning from operator to solution designer
- Consulting opportunities with IBM MQ skills
- Freelance and contracting pathways
- Joining IBM partner networks and integration communities
- Staying updated with IBM developer resources
- Continuing education in hybrid integration platforms
- Leveraging your certification in salary negotiations
Module 14: Next Steps, Ongoing Support, and Community - Accessing the private alumni network for graduates
- Receiving updates on new IBM MQ features and best practices
- Exclusive access to downloadable reference guides and checklists
- Monthly Q&A with integration architects
- Peer review of real-world designs and diagrams
- Continued access to updated troubleshooting workflows
- Advanced tip sheets on performance and security
- Downloadable templates for documentation and proposals
- Integration pattern library: ready-to-use blueprints
- Architecture decision records (ADRs) for common scenarios
- Access to a curated list of enterprise tools and add-ons
- Connecting with other IBM MQ professionals globally
- Opportunities to contribute to community knowledge base
- Invitations to special technical deep-dive briefings
- Progress tracking and achievement badges
- Setting long-term career goals with MQ mastery
- Overview of IBM MQ certification paths (C9510-401, etc.)
- How this course aligns with official exam objectives
- Practice scenarios for real certification questions
- Building a portfolio of completed projects
- Adding your Certificate of Completion to LinkedIn
- Drafting resumes that highlight MQ integration expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews with real-world examples
- Gaining visibility in enterprise architecture reviews
- Becoming the go-to integration authority in your team
- Transitioning from operator to solution designer
- Consulting opportunities with IBM MQ skills
- Freelance and contracting pathways
- Joining IBM partner networks and integration communities
- Staying updated with IBM developer resources
- Continuing education in hybrid integration platforms
- Leveraging your certification in salary negotiations