This book will cover the new Advanced DBA exam. The final step in becoming a Certified DB2 Expert.

This book contains practice exams, plus detailed answers and explanations, covering every concept and technique for the advanced DBA Certification. Topics covered will include: advanced administration, high availability backup and recovery, performance tuning and scalability, networking and security, how to manage a large number of users and connections and large amounts of data, authentication, and encryption. People will need to pass the Fundamentals and DBA exams before they can take the Advanced DBA. IBM estimates that a large percentage of those who take the regular DBA exam will go on to seek Advanced DBA certification since the information covered with the Advanced DBA material will greatly improve their skills.