Datastage Certification

We found very interesitng story of Vincent McBurney (Consultant, Solution Architect), who shared his certification story on ITToolbox blog. Please look at the test preparation stages Vicent mentioned:

Test Preparation
I booked an afternoon test so I could spend the morning studying. That was really dumb, I should have booked a midnight test to fit in the studying I needed. I read up on the following doco:
- Parallel Job Advanced Developers Guide
* environment variables (APT_) they recommend you change.
* Buildops and custom stages.
- Parallel Job Developers Guide
* Read up on the partitioning types I never use (modulus).
* Took a quick look through the enterprise DB stages I never use.
* Tried to find some doco on orchdbadmin as I had never heard of it.
* Configuration files and node pools.
(That's the great thing about certification, it's filled in a few gaps).
- Server Job Developers Guide
* Refresher on the command line interface dsjob, dssearch and dsadmin.
- Designer Guide
* Ah ha, found the orchdbadmin in here.
* Read up on any sequence job stages I don't normally use.
* Make sure you know your stage variable uses
* Environment and project specific variables.
- Installation Guide
* Had a quick read of kernel settings as it's in the objectives. The test whammed me with a doosy of a kernel question.
* Read up on USS deployment as it's in the objectives though there was no sign of it in the test.

The full article available here: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/bi/websphere/archives/datastage-certification-how-to-pass-the-exam-8120