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 Duration 35 hours

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Fundamentals of Performance Testing

  • The performance testing lifecycle.
  • Interpreting performance test results.

Exploring Architectures and Application Models

  • 2-tier and 3-tier architectures
  • N-tier architectures
  • Architectures based on middleware (e.g., MQ, Web services)

Technical Foundation

  • Core UNIX commands (such as grep, find, and the vi editor)
  • Basics of Oracle and SQL (including queries, tables, and triggers)
  • Fundamental concepts of C and Java

In-Depth Analysis: Monitoring Concepts and Tools

  • Hardware Monitoring (Windows - Perfmon, UNIX - nmon, vmstat)
    • Run queue (Average processor queue length)
    • Network IO
    • Disk IO
    • Memory (Available, Used, Paging space, FS Cache, etc.)
    • CPU (Available, virtual, online, entitled, etc.)
  • Web Server and App Server Monitoring
    • JVM (Java heap) - heap dump analysis
    • Connection Pools
    • Thread Pools
  • Overview of monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli.
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning
    • SQL Trace
    • AWR or Statspack analysis
    • Query plans
  • Understanding Bandwidth and FTP
  • Network Monitoring using tools like HTTPwatch or Fiddler

Requirements

  • Familiarity with databases such as Oracle.
  • Proficiency in application containers, including WebSphere or Weblogic.
  • Working knowledge of programming languages, particularly Java.
  • Foundational understanding of performance testing methodologies.
  • Proficiency in SQL.

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