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Introduction to Performance Testing

  • The performance testing lifecycle.
  • Interpreting performance test results.

Understanding Various Architectures and Application Models

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

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 and Monitoring Concepts/Tools

  • Hardware Monitoring (Windows Perfmon, UNIX nmon, vmstat)
    • Run queue (Average processor queue length).
    • Network I/O.
    • Disk I/O.
    • Memory metrics (Available, Used, Paging space, File System Cache, etc.).
    • CPU metrics (Available, virtual, online, entitled, etc.).
  • Web Server and Application Server Monitoring
    • JVM (Java Heap) and heap dump analysis.
    • Connection Pools.
    • Thread Pools.
  • Overview of monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli.
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning.
    • SQL Tracing.
    • AWR or Statspack analysis.
    • Query execution plans.
  • Understanding bandwidth and FTP.
  • Network monitoring techniques using tools like HTTPWatch or Fiddler.

Requirements

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