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 Duration 35 hours

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Fundamentals of Performance Testing

  • The performance testing lifecycle
  • Interpreting performance test outcomes

Exploring Architectures and Application Models

  • 2-tier and 3-tier architectures
  • N-tier architectures
  • Architectures based on Middleware (such as MQ and Webservices)

Technical Foundations

  • Essential UNIX commands (including grep, find, and the vi editor)
  • Core Oracle and SQL concepts (Queries, Tables, Triggers)
  • Basic C and Java concepts

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 metrics (Available, Used, Paging space, FS Cache)
    • CPU metrics (Available, virtual, online, entitled)
  • Web Server and Application Server Monitoring
    • JVM (Java heap) and heap dump analysis
    • Connection Pools
    • Thread Pools
  • Proficiency in monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli
  • Database Monitoring
    • Fundamentals of query tuning
    • SQL Trace
    • Analysis of AWR or Statspack
    • Query plans
  • Concepts of Bandwidth and FTP
  • Network Monitoring using tools like HTTPwatch or Fiddler

Requirements

  • Familiarity with databases such as Oracle
  • Knowledge of application containers like WebSphere or WebLogic
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Java
  • Understanding of Performance testing principles
  • Competence in SQL

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