o Knowledge on using the Message Broker Information Center introduced in WebSphere Message Broker V6 (V7).
o Know how to work with the new default configuration wizard.
o Understand and describe the relationship between service-oriented architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and Message Broker.
o Describe the overall improvements in the areas of Rational, ESQL, and mappings in WebSphere Message Broker V6.
o Use the Flow Debugger software.
o Knowledge of using and implementing the XPath features in the product.
o Use and control the runtime versioning feature of the WebSphere Message Broker V6.
o Know how to use the Configuration Manager Proxy to deploy and remove deployed message flows.
o Understand and use the mqsilist commands to investigate what is deployed on the broker.
o Use and create new command line utilities to create execution groups, deploy message flows, and create bar files.
o Use of the MQGet node to store stable information and get a message from a queue.
o Define, and use in a message flow, the new Timer nodes to cause a message flow to start at periodic levels.
o Knowledge of how to use the HTTP nodes to execute WebSphere Message Broker flows.
o Use the enhanced Web services support for modeling and working with SOAP messages and MIME attachments.
o Create message set that generates a WSDL for Web Services.
o Configure the Java Compute node and write basic Java code to understand the Filter Message class template.
o Configure WMQ as the JMS provider and use the JMS nodes to convert a message and placing them to a JMS destination.
o Knowledge of the XSLT and Aggregation nodes.