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Course Outline
Introduction to Performance Testing
- The performance testing lifecycle.
- Interpreting performance test results.
Understanding Various Architectures and Application Models
- 2-tier and 3-tier architecture.
- N-tier architecture.
- Middleware-based architecture (e.g., MQ, Web Services).
Technology Foundations
- Fundamental UNIX commands (grep, find, vi editor, etc.).
- Basic Oracle/SQL concepts (queries, tables, triggers, etc.).
- Core C/Java programming concepts.
Detailed Analysis: Monitoring Concepts and Tools
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Hardware Monitoring (Windows Perfmon, UNIX nmon, vmstat)
- Run queue metrics (average processor queue length).
- Network I/O.
- Disk I/O.
- Memory usage (available, used, paging space, filesystem cache, etc.).
- CPU utilization (available, virtual, online, entitled resources, etc.).
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Web Server and Application Server Monitoring
- JVM (Java Heap) - heap dump analysis.
- Connection pools.
- Thread pools.
- Overview of monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli.
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Database Monitoring
- Basic query tuning techniques.
- SQL tracing.
- AWR or Statspack analysis.
- Query execution plans.
- Understanding bandwidth and FTP protocols.
- Network monitoring using tools like HTTPWatch or Fiddler.
Requirements
- Familiarity with database systems such as Oracle.
- Knowledge of application servers like WebSphere or WebLogic.
- Understanding of programming languages, particularly Java.
- Prior experience with performance testing methodologies.
- Proficiency in SQL.
35 Hours
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