• Messaging concepts and fundamentals
• Role of an MQ Administrator
• Benefits of message-oriented middleware
• MQ use cases in enterprises
• MQ versions and platforms
• Queue Manager concepts
• Local and remote queues
• Message channels overview
• Listeners and communication flow
• Distributed vs mainframe MQ
• Installing IBM WebSphere MQ
• Creating queue managers
• Environment configuration
• Verifying MQ installation
• Basic system setup
• Queue manager properties
• Local, alias, and remote queues
• Clustered queue managers
• Queue depth monitoring
• Administration best practices
• Sender and receiver channels
• Server connection channels
• Channel authentication rules
• Starting and stopping channels
• Troubleshooting channel issues
• Persistent and non-persistent messages
• Message priority
• Message expiry
• Dead-letter queue handling
• Message routing basics
• Authentication and authorization
• Object authority manager
• Channel security
• SSL and certificate configuration
• Security best practices
• Cluster queue managers
• Cluster repositories
• Load balancing in clusters
• Managing clustered queues
• Cluster troubleshooting
• Queue and channel monitoring
• MQ logs overview
• Event messages
• Alerting and notifications
• Health monitoring techniques
• MQ backup strategies
• Queue manager backup
• Media recovery concepts
• Disaster recovery planning
• High availability overview
• Recovery testing
• MQ performance fundamentals
• Channel performance tuning
• Queue manager tuning
• Message throughput optimization
• Capacity planning
• Performance monitoring tools







