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 Duration 35 hours

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Introduction to Performance Testing

  • The performance testing life cycle.
  • Interpreting performance test results.

Exploring Architectures and Application Models

  • 2-tier and 3-tier architecture
  • N-tier architecture
  • Middleware-based architectures (using MQ, Web services, etc.)

Technology Fundamentals

  • Essential UNIX commands (grep, find, vi editor, etc.)
  • Basic Oracle/SQL operations (Queries, Tables, Triggers, etc.)
  • Fundamental C/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, etc.)
    • CPU metrics (Available, virtual, online, entitled, etc.)
  • Web Server and App Server Monitoring
    • JVM (Java heap) analysis and heap dumps
    • Connection Pools
    • Thread Pools
  • Overview of major monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli.
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning
    • SQL Trace
    • AWR or Statspack analysis
    • Query plan analysis
  • Concepts of Bandwidth and FTP
  • Network monitoring techniques using HTTPwatch or Fiddler

Requirements

  • Familiarity with database systems such as Oracle.
  • Experience with application containers like WebSphere or Weblogic.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Java.
  • A solid grasp of performance testing methodologies.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL.

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