MegaCorp is working on integrating one of their applications existing in non-IBM WebSphere Portal environments into WebSphere Portal. Which of the following options should they use for this purpose?

• A. IntegrationPortlet_jsEnabled
• B. WebClipping Portlet
• C. WebClipping Portlet International Edition
• D. IntegrationPortlet

Hershel wants to programmatically check if specific users have access to his company's new portlet application, in order to show a message in another portlet asking them to purchase a subscription. He is trying to do so with the least amount of performance overhead. What would be the best way for Hershel to accomplish this?

• A. He should use the com.ibm.portal.ac.RoleData interface to verify explicit role assignments.
• B. He should use AccessControlRuntimeModel or AccessControlGlobalRuntimeModel to verify explicit role assignments.
• C. He should read role assignments using the com.ibm.portal.ac.RoleData interface and ensure portlet caching is enabled.
• D. He should use the com.ibm.portal.ac.UserRoles interface to verify explicit role assignments.

Tyson is the sole IBM WebSphere Portal administrator in his company. He has developed a portlet that uses content spots to bind certain portlet markup to users specific to a certain group accessing the portlet itself. What bindings can Tyson create to associate the users with the content spots to be shown?

• A. Portlets cannot include dynamic content spots.
• B. He can use Personalization Rules based on user and group information, hiding and showing the content spots per each grouping as desired.
• C. He can store a personalization rule in the theme that creates a new version of the portlet for each user group automatically on first access,using the PortletClientModel and leveraging the PUMA UserGroup object
• D. He can use the ContentPresentationModel to hide and show content spots based on any parameter included in the ContentPresentationResource and change the content spot based on the user's group

On an ongoing basis, Ken wants to track status messages from an application that he is writing. Which one of the following options should he use as a best practice to make the status messages available?

• A. He should write them to SystemError.log since they are status messages and could be considered errors.
• B. He should use the standard Java logger at an "info" level since "info" is the default trace level for IBM WebSphere Portal server.
• C. He should use the standard Java logger at an "error" level since they are status messages and could be considered errors.
• D. He should write messages to to SystemOut.log since it is the easiest to implement.

Corrie needs to create several iWidgets that will interact with each other. She is evaluating the mechanisms that she can use to share state information between the iWidgets. Which one of the following options is the best way to accomplish this?

• A. Store state information in the user's session.
• B. Implement public render parameters.
• C. Declare the state sharable in the ItemSet definition and register listeners in the individual iWidgets to be informed when shared state changes.
• D. Use the JSR 286 defined event and payload mechanism.