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Technical Competency Roadmap

IBM API Connect

November 2017

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Roadmap: IBM API Connect
Audience: Internal and Business Partner

Contents:

• Curriculum View: Critical path through the technical curriculum options pg# 3

• Supplemental Enablement Repositories pg# 4

• Certification: Guidance and program resources pg# 5

• Skills Rating Key: Defining acquired / applied / mastered pg# 6

• Resources and Acronym Key pg# 7

• Change control log pg# 8

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Roadmap: IBM API Connect
Audience: Internal and Business Partner

COURSE COURSE COURSE

Do you have VY102G – Develop ZD500G - Creating, ZD502G - Managing,
REST API NO REST API with Node.js
Start Publishing, and Securing Monitoring, and
with Node.js for Bluemix APIs with IBM API Subscribing APIs with IBM
skills? BYOE, 2 days Connect V5 API Connect V5
Self-study, 4 days Self-study, 2 days
YES IBM BP IBM BP IBM BP

COURSE CERTIFICATION
Do you have NO ZD504G - Using the DP IBM Certified Solution
DataPower Gateway with the IBM Implementer - API
Gateway skills? APIC Developer Toolkit Connect V5.0.5
Self-paced, 2.4 hours

IBM BP IBM BP
YES

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Supplemental Enablement Repositories
Audience: Internal and Business Partner

Name Description Offering type(s) Internal Partner

link link
Product Page Presentations, videos, overviews and more Self-study IBM BP

Sales Kits Partner Sales and Technical enablement, presentations, demos, and more Self-study IBM BP

Knowledge Center Product documentation Self-study IBM BP

Developer Area Community to evangelize offering, tutorials, videos, support for trial users, Self-study IBM BP
forum for user interaction, and more
YouTube Channel Demos, testimonials, and more Self-study IBM BP

Technical Roadmap for Partners Roadmap for business partners to guide them through their journey towards Self-study IBM BP
API Connect adoption
Quick Start Guide A one stop shop for all API Connect related resources for partners Self-study IBM BP

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IBM Professional Certification Program

Certification: It's a business solution. A way for skilled IT professionals to

demonstrate their expertise to the world. It validates your skills and
demonstrates your proficiency in the latest IBM technology and solutions.
• The certification exams below are associated with this enablement roadmap.
• Each exam page offers preparatory guidance and sample test materials. While courseware
is recommended before taking an exam, keep in mind that real world experience is required
to stand a reasonable chance of passing a certification test.
• A complete list of certifications is available on the program homepage.

Certification Test Certification exam Direct Link

IBM Certified Solution Implementer - API Connect V5.0.5 C9530-519 IBM API Connect v. 5.0.5 Solution Implementation Link

IBM PartnerWorld evaluation IBM Cloud Practice Accelerator Link

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Skills rating key

Acquired Applied Mastered

Acquired Skill
You have gained knowledge of the subject through formal or informal education, training,
mentoring, experiences or other skill development activities and have limited, if any,
application of the skill on any project or opportunity.

Applied Skill
You have repeated, successful application of the skill on projects or opportunities.

Mastered Skill
You have comprehensive, in-depth knowledge of the subject and extensive successful
applications of the skill on projects or opportunities. You have demonstrated the ability to
mentor, teach and lead the application of this skill and function as a subject matter expert.

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Resources and acronym key
• Additional sources of enablement information:
• Internal IBM asset locations for searching and enrolling in courses
• https://yourlearning.w3bmix.ibm.com/#home/queue/spotlight

• Business Partner asset locations

• IBM PartnerWorld

• Acronyms:
• ILT and ILO = Traditional live, instructor led, classroom training including hands-on experience.
• ILO = online class. ILT = in person class. ILx = available in either in-person or online format.
• SPVC = Self-Paced Virtual Classroom. Lecture recordings, course guides, and virtual machines combined
to give you the classroom experience on your own systems.
• BYOE = Bring Your Own Environment. Students use their own machines to build the lab environment and
work on the hands-on exercises. At the end of the course, students have a working environment that they
can continue to use
• WBT = Web-based training with recorded lecture and demos
• STE, TTEC, TTECGO = Playback of live calls with subject matter experts on new release features or
targeted topics.
• PoT = Proof of Technology: a demonstration of product functionality in a controlled, non-customer
environment.
• PoC = Proof of Concept: an objective-based demonstration of product functionality typically carried out on
customer premise utilizing customer-provided data.

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Change control log
Change description Page Author Date

Updated Roadmap Master, updated internal links to point to “YourLearning” site, removed non-productive links get

Replaced older courses with new offerings and updated some outdated links get 11/06/17

Added links to BP Technical Roadmap and QSG ssm 11/10/17

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