IBM Certified Specialist for Rational Unified Process - Test 639

I recently took and passed the IBM Certified Specialist for Rational Unified Process - Test 639. Since I had a very difficult time finding information on it I thought I would post my thoughts here.

It contained high level concepts of the RUP. Most of which are defined in: The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner’s Guide to the RUP. My difficulty was deciding what I thought was important verse what the test providers thought was important. So I also used sample test questions from a site called Test King. They were fairly accurate to what was actually on the test, I disagreed with some of their answers but I didn’t get a perfect score on the actual test. Also the wording on some of the questions from Test King was very poor. My first pass though the practice test I looked up the concepts that were being addressed in the question either in the book above or on the internet. Wikipedia has a good synopsis of the RUP.

As for the actual test, it was broken into three topic areas:
• Models and Architecture
• Disciplines
• Iterative Development

Each had 16 questions. There were several questions on UML and several questions on best practices as defined by the RUP. If you have more specific questions I would be happy to answer them.

Good luck for anyone who plans on taking it.

Hiding Navigation in a WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 site

The following example will allow you to hide the different portions of a WSS 3.0 or MOSS site. In particular the left navigation bar, the top navigation bar, the breadcrumb trail and the top banner. Remember if you hide all of the zones, you will need to implement your own navigation. This will only hide the zones on a single web. There are ways to do this for every future site that is created but that is beyond the scope of this post.

1. Add a Content Editor Web Part to your page.
2. Edit the content of the web part, specifically the source editor.
3. Add the java script below:

<style>
.ms-nav, .ms-globalTitleArea, .ms-bannerframe, .ms-globalbreadcrumb
{
display: none;
}
</style>


4. The final thing you’ll want to do it set the web part to hidden.

Moss has a few other components you can hide. I’ll make another post shortly that will allow you to easily find out which style you would need to hide addition MOSS features.

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