Application Lifecycle Management 15.x Site and Project Administration (ALM350-150) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Course Overview
  • Identify the contents and objectives of the course
  • Define the class schedule and class logistics
  • Identify the related courses
  • Discuss the lab environment details
Module 2: Implementation Planning
  • Describe the different ALM editions
  • Identify hardware and software considerations for installation
  • Summarize the steps necessary for upgrading to ALM 15.x from previous versions
Module 3: Introduction to Site Administration
  • Navigate Site Administration
  • Understand the structure of a project
  • Analyze the Site Analysis data
Module 4: Domains and Projects
  • Define domains, projects, and templates
  • Create a domain and project
  • Define a template and its use
  • Verify that the project connects to the database
  • Describe how to enable versioning when creating a project
Module 5: Maintaining ALM Projects
  • Query project tables
  • Copy and rename a project
  • Export and import a project
  • Add email capability
  • Describe the new optimized repository
  • Realign repositories
  • Convert a project to Unicode
  • Rename a module
  • Learn options to optimize ALM performance
Module 6: Upgrading a Project
  • Identify previous project versions that can be upgraded to ALM 15.x
  • Summarize items to consider before upgrading a project
  • Verify and repair a project
  • Upgrade a project
Module 7: Managing Users
  • Add users to ALM
  • Assign users to projects
  • Assign Site Administrator and/or Project Administrator privileges to a user
  • Configure login authentication
  • Configure Smart Card authentication
  • Use Single Sign On (SSO)
  • Deactivate and delete users
  • Interpret the data in Site Connections
Module 8: Managing Licenses
  • Load an ALM license
  • Assign licenses to domains and projects
  • Assign a named license
Module 9: Configuring the Server and Parameters
  • Modify server configurations
  • Describe significant newly added site parameters
  • Define a new database server
  • Modify an existing database server
  • Update default configuration parameters
  • Add optional configuration parameter
Module 10: Project Planning and Tracking
  • Define Project Planning and Tracking (PPT)
  • Set scheduling options
  • Manually activate PPT
  • Purge PPT data
  • Fine-tune PPT database activity
Module 11: Quality Center Sense
  • Define Quality Center (QC) Sense
  • Recognize the QC Sense monitors
  • Set configuration options
Module 12: Planning Project-level Customizations
  • Identify the available project-level customizations
  • Plan project groups and permissions
  • Determine the entities to customize
  • Determine new lookup lists to add
  • Plan the workflow customizations needed for email notifications and defect fields
Module 13: Managing User Groups
  • Manage a user group
  • Assign permissions to user groups
  • Add transition rules
  • Add a user to a project
  • Add a user to a user group
  • Use a template project
Module 14: Customizing Entities
  • Add user-defined fields to a project
  • Customize system fields
Module 15: Customizing Requirement Types and Risk-based Management
  • Customize default requirements
  • Add user-defined requirement types
  • Customize the risk-based quality management criteria
Module 16: Customizing Project Lists
  • Identify parts of a lookup list
  • Create a lookup list
  • Update a lookup list
  • Associate a list to a field
Module 17: Customizing Automail and Alerts
  • Designate Automail fields for a project
  • Define Automail conditions
  • Enable alerts
Module 18: Customizing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Customize key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Configure the transitions
Module 19: Creating Business Views and Configuring Sprinter
  • Create and manage business views
  • Build graphs from the Business Views user interface
  • Configure Sprinter
Module 20: Customizing Workflow
  • Access the ALM workflow page
  • Customize the Defects module lists
  • Customize the fields in the Defects module
Module 21: Implementing Workflow Using the Script Editor
  • Use the elements of the Script Editor
  • Identify the events in the Script Editor
  • Add a command button to an ALM module
Lab 22: Appendix A to Z
  • Describe the lab scenario
  • Restore, verify, repair, and upgrade a project
  • Create users and assign them to a project
  • Assign a user as a Project Administrator
  • Create a domain and a template and assign the Template Administrator
  • Create empty projects from a template
  • Add optional configuration parameters
  • Create and set permissions for a user group
  • Configure transition rules
  • Add an item to a list
  • Add a user to a user group
  • Hide data from a user group
  • Configure automail
  • Create a new field and customize workflow in the Defect module
  • Create a new requirement type