Written primarily for readers who work with the DB2 system, this book covers everything they need to know in order to pass the exam to become IBM-certified database administrators for DB2 10.1 or DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. This comprehensive study guide goes step by step through all of the topics on the test. Each chapter contains an extensive set of practice questions along with carefully explained answers, and a complete practice test that closely models the actual exam is included with an answer key. The book discusses server management, activity monitoring, high availability, security, and connectivity and networking, among other issues.