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Introduction to Performance Testing

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

Understanding Various Architectures and Application Models

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

Technology

  • Basic UNIX commands (e.g., grep, find, vi editor).
  • Basic Oracle/SQL concepts (queries, tables, triggers, etc.).
  • Fundamental C/Java concepts.

Detailed Analysis: Monitoring Concepts and Tools

  • Hardware Monitoring (Windows Perfmon, UNIX nmon, vmstat)
    • Run queue (average processor queue length)
    • Network I/O
    • Disk I/O
    • Memory (available, used, paging space, file system cache, etc.)
    • CPU (available, virtual, online, entitled, etc.)
  • Web Server and Application Server Monitoring
    • JVM (Java heap) and heap dump analysis
    • Connection pools
    • Thread pools
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli.
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning
    • SQL trace
    • AWR or Statspack analysis
    • Query plans
  • Understanding of bandwidth and FTP.
  • Network monitoring using tools like HTTPWatch or Fiddler.

Requirements

  • Understanding of databases such as Oracle.
  • Familiarity with application containers like WebSphere or WebLogic.
  • Knowledge of programming languages such as Java.
  • Knowledge of performance testing.
  • Proficiency in SQL.
 35 Hours

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