IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 Solution Development - C9520-911 Exam Questions [2026]

QUESTION NO: 1
The following code sample uses the PUMA SPI within a standard portlet.

Sunil needs to retrieve attributes on the current user. Which one of the following lines of code, if inserted at line 6, will provide the functions to retrieve attributes from the User object?

A. PumaProfile p = service.getProfile( (javax.portlet.ActionRequest) request); B. PumaController p = service getController( (javax.portlet.PortletRequest) request); C. PumaProfile p = service.getProfile( (javax.portlet.PortletRequest) request); D. PumaController p = service getController( (javax.portlet.ActionRequest) request);

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 2
In the case of a processAction or serveResource call, what is the expected behavior if an action or resource parameter has the same name as a public render parameter?

A. The public render parameter is ignored. B. The public render parameter is appended with a unique identifier to distinguish it from the action/resource parameter. C. The public render parameter takes precedence and overwrites the value of the action/resource parameter. D. The public render parameter values must be the last entries in the parameter value array.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 3
Usha has developed a JSR 286 compliant portlet. She wants to use it on a WSRP producer so that it can be consumed by a remote IBM WebSphere Portal server. What changes if any should be made?

A. She does not have to make any changes. B. She should change her portlet class to implement ServiceDescription and Markup interface. C. She must set the enable WSRP portlet initialization parameter to true in the portlet.xml file. D. She should change her portlet class to implement ServiceDescription, Markup, Registration and PortletManagement interface.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 4
Emery is trying to make it so users from a specific geographic location do not have access to a specific metrics application hosted on their IBM WebSphere Portal server. Which of the following options is provided within WebSphere Portal that Emery can use to this purpose?

A. Emery can use the call to ensure the portlet is hidden for thegeography to block. B. None of the above. Emery is going to need to create a page and assign metadata parameters to hide the specific portlet from users fromgeographies that are not allowed to see it. C. Emery's users must register as being from a specific geography and Emery can develop workflow methods leveraging thePortalUserIdentityBean (or PUIB) object to ensure the portlet does not generate markup for the user in this geography. D. Emery can use Personalization Rules to hide the portlet, leveraging information in the user repository regarding the user's geographiclocation.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 5
A software delivery executive, by the name of Fry, is developing a custom theme called Popplers. He has deployed the theme with six custom layouts (Lla, Zdb, Bdr, Amy, Pff and Hms) at dav:fstype1/themes/Popplers/layout-templates.
Over the past few days, he has been trying to scope three of these layouts (Lla, Zdb and Bdr) however, none of them are visible in the WebSphere Portal 8.0 Layout tab.
He has performed the following steps:

Refreshed browser's cache 4) Reloaded the page What is the problem with Popplers based on the information provided?

A. Step 2 is incorrect because layouts must be listed alphabetically - listing them as Bdr, Lla and then Zdb will correct the issue. B. The last two steps are in the wrong order - perform step 4 first and then step 3 to solve the problem. C. Step 1 is incorrect. Changing the URL value to ibmCfg.themeConfig.themeRootURI+"/system/layouts.json" will resolve the issue. D. One cannot partially scope custom layouts in a theme. Just like the default Portal 8.0 theme, you must scope all defined custom layouts.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 6
The JSR 286 Portlet Specification PLT.C appendix defines the Cascading Style Sheet classes for a variety of logical units in the markup. It follows the styles defined by the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets Technical Committee. What is the prefix used for the name of the CSS classes defined in this appendix?

A. portlet- (for example portlet-font, portlet-form-field, portlet-table-body) B. wsrp- (for example wsrp-font, wsrp-form-field, wsrp-table-body) C. portal- (for example portal-font, portal-form-field, portal-table-body) D. css- (for example css-font, css-form-field, css-table-body)

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 7
Matt is developing an interactive AJAX widget that will allow content approvers to review content without leaving their home page. Which IBM Web Content Manager API feature should he use?

A. Managed Pages B. REST Services C. Web Services D. JSP Tags

Correct Answer: B