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Skills this practice test covers
- Set up Decision Center roles, security, governance and branching.
- Analyze business requirements to find decisions and decision points.
- Install ODM V8.9.1 and migrate existing rule projects.
- Build the XOM, BOM and vocabulary for a decision service project.
- Author rules, decision tables and ruleflows in Rule Designer.
- Deploy RuleApps and call them through the RES REST API.
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C1000-010 exam content
5 domains · 27 topics · 200 of 207 questions sorted by domain
Decision Center16%32 questions
Decision Center is where business users and developers share and govern rules. Candidates define roles and security, set up a decision governance framework, deploy from Decision Center, enable testing and simulations, and work with branches.
Skills tested
- Define user roles and permissions, and secure Decision Center with authentication.
- Set up a decision governance framework with a rule lifecycle and approval steps.
- Configure deployments from Decision Center to Rule Execution Server.
- Enable Excel-based testing and simulations for business users.
- Create branches and merge rule changes between them.
Questions by topic
- Define decision governance framework7
- Enable and customize testing and simulations for business users5
- Understand branching and merging8
- Secure Decision Center5
- Set up Deployment from Decision Center3
- Define Roles and Responsibilities4
Development: Architecture16%28 questions
Before building, candidates analyze business requirements and plan the architecture. They identify the decisions, decision points and business policies that a decision service must automate.
Skills tested
- Analyze business requirements and find the decision points in a process.
- Map business policies to decisions that rules can automate.
- Plan a decision service architecture for integration and scalability.
Questions by topic
- Plan the Architecture16
- Identify decisions, decision points, and business policies8
- Analyze business requirements4
Development: Environment Set-up9%16 questions
The smallest domain covers installing the ODM components and migrating to V8.9.1. Candidates plan an installation and move projects and data from earlier versions.
Skills tested
- Install the ODM components and configure their settings.
- Plan a migration with the IBM ODM migration tools and check that it is complete.
Questions by topic
- Migrate7
- Install9
Rule Designer39%87 questions
Rule Designer is the Eclipse-based development tool, and this is the largest domain. Candidates create decision service projects, import the XOM, build the BOM and vocabulary, write rules, decision tables and ruleflows, and deploy RuleApps.
Skills tested
- Create a decision service project and import the XOM it runs against.
- Build the BOM and its vocabulary, and keep them in step when the XOM changes.
- Author business rules and decision tables, and order rule tasks in a ruleflow.
- Add decision operations and deploy them as a RuleApp.
- Write a Java client application that calls a decision service.
Questions by topic
- Create BOM and vocabulary12
- Create Decision Service projects5
- Define and run queries5
- Create Client Application6
- Add Decision Operations8
- Create Ruleflow11
- Deploy RuleApp7
- Author rules and decision tables19
- Manage BOM update5
- Manage synchronization4
- Import the XOM5
Rule Execution Server20%37 questions
Rule Execution Server runs the deployed rules. Candidates call its REST API, manage RuleApp and ruleset versions, integrate it with applications, trace decisions in Decision Warehouse, and tune execution.
Skills tested
- Call and manage decision services through the RES REST API.
- Apply a RuleApp and ruleset versioning policy.
- Use Decision Warehouse to trace which rules fired in a decision.
- Tune execution with ruleset caching and pool settings.
Questions by topic
- Work with the RES REST API10
- Manage RuleApp and Ruleset Versioning policy6
- Optimize Execution9
- Integration6
- Use Decision Warehouse6
Requirements
- No formal prerequisites: anyone can book the exam.
- Recommended: experience with Java SE and Java EE, Eclipse and Java application servers.
- Recommended: business modeling and business rule modeling skills, plus basic Excel and XML or JSON.
- Recommended: basic Ant scripting, web services and DevOps knowledge.
About the C1000-010 exam
C1000-010 checks how well a developer builds business rules applications with IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Standard V8.9.1. ODM keeps the rules in decision services that sit outside the application code. IBM rates the certification at an intermediate level, for developers who have already designed and built decision management solutions. The exam covers analysis and architecture, setup, rule development in Rule Designer, execution on Rule Execution Server and governance in Decision Center. Passing earns IBM's Application Developer certification for ODM Standard V8.9.1.
Rule Designer has the most questions in the PlanetCert practice test, and authoring rules and decision tables is its largest topic. The explanations trace each answer to the model behind it, such as which XOM class a BOM element maps to, or which ruleset version a client calls. Study Mode suits the BOM and vocabulary questions, where one wrong mapping breaks a rule. Brainy AI Assistant can explain how a ruleflow chooses the next rule task, or what Decision Warehouse records about a decision.
How to earn the certification
- Earns
- IBM Certified Application Developer - Operational Decision Manager Standard V8.9.1Intermediate
The certification has no expiration date.
How to prepare for C1000-010
- 1
Install ODM and open Rule Designer
Install ODM V8.9.1 with its sample server and open Rule Designer in Eclipse. Every Rule Designer objective can then be tried by hand, and the install itself covers the environment set-up domain.
- 2
Turn one policy into a decision service
Pick a simple policy, such as a loan approval rule, and find its decision points. Build the XOM, the BOM and its vocabulary, then write the policy as business rules and a decision table.
- 3
Spend the most time in Rule Designer
Rule Designer is the largest domain. Add a ruleflow, a decision operation and a RuleApp to the project, deploy it, and call it from a small Java client.
- 4
Version it on Rule Execution Server
Call the deployed ruleset through the RES REST API, deploy a second version, and check which version the client gets. Then turn on Decision Warehouse and read the trace of one decision.
- 5
Govern a change, then time a run
Publish the project to Decision Center, open a release and a change activity, and approve a rule edit in the Business Console. Finish with the C1000-010 practice test in Timed Mode, and ask Brainy AI Assistant about any missed governance question.
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IBM's exam page points to the Redbook Governing Operational Decisions in an Enterprise Scalable Way and to the Operational Decision Manager Version 8.9.1 documentation.
Who C1000-010 is for
- Java developers who build business rules applications with ODM.
- Decision management and business rules developers moving their projects to V8.9.1.
- IT architects and technical consultants who design ODM solutions for clients.
Typical job titles: ODM developer · Business rules developer · Java developer · Decision management consultant · Application architect
C1000-010 glossary
15 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.
- BOM
- The business object model: a business-friendly layer over the XOM that rule authors write against.
- Business Console
- The Decision Center web console where business users write, review, test and approve rules.
- Decision Center
- The ODM repository and web consoles where business users and developers manage, test, govern and deploy rules.
- Decision governance framework
- Decision Center's process of releases and change activities, which controls how rule changes are made, reviewed and approved.
- Decision operations
- The entry points of a decision service, which set its input and output parameters and the rules it runs.
- Decision tables
- Tables in which each row is a rule, with condition columns on one side and action columns on the other.
- Decision Validation Services
- ODM's testing and simulation features, which run test suites and simulations against rulesets.
- Decision Warehouse
- The ODM feature that stores execution traces, so teams can see which rules fired for each decision.
- Rule Designer
- The Eclipse-based development environment where developers create rule projects, the BOM, rules and RuleApps.
- Rule Execution Server
- The ODM runtime that runs deployed rulesets for client applications and keeps track of their versions.
- RuleApp
- A deployable package of one or more rulesets that Rule Execution Server runs.
- Ruleflow
- A flow diagram that sets the order in which groups of rules run, with branches and conditions between them.
- Ruleset
- An executable set of rules with its input and output parameters, deployed inside a RuleApp.
- Vocabulary
- The natural-language terms and phrases, built from the BOM, that rule authors use to write rules.
- XOM
- The execution object model: the Java classes or XML schema that rules actually run against.
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