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 Duration 35 hours

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Introduction to Performance Testing

  • The performance testing life cycle
  • Interpreting performance test results

Architectures and Application Models

  • Two and three-tier architectures
  • N-tier architectures
  • Middleware-based architectures (including MQ, Web services, etc.)

Core Technologies

  • Essential UNIX commands (grep, find, vi editor, etc.)
  • Fundamental Oracle and SQL concepts (Queries, Tables, Triggers, etc.)
  • Basic C and Java programming 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 (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 Pool
    • Thread Pool
  • Overview of monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope, IBM Tivoli, and others
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning
    • SQL Trace
    • AWR or Statspack analysis
    • Query plan analysis
  • Concepts of Bandwidth and FTP
  • Network Monitoring using tools like HTTPwatch or Fiddler

Requirements

  • Familiarity with database systems such as Oracle
  • Working knowledge of application containers like WebSphere or Weblogic
  • Proficiency in programming languages, particularly Java
  • Foundational understanding of Performance testing principles
  • Competence in writing SQL queries

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