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 Duration 35 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to performance testing

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

Exploring various architectures and application models

  • 2/3-tier architecture
  • N-tier architecture
  • Middleware-based architecture (utilising MQ, Webservices, etc.)

Core technologies

  • Essential UNIX commands (such as grep, find, and the vi editor)
  • Fundamental Oracle/SQL concepts (Queries, Tables, Triggers, etc.)
  • Basic C/Java concepts

Detailed 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 various monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, IBM Tivoli, etc.
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning
    • SQL Trace
    • AWR or Statspack analysis
    • Query plan analysis
  • Understanding Bandwidth and FTP
  • Network Monitoring using HTTPwatch or Fiddler

Requirements

  • Familiarity with relational databases such as Oracle.
  • Working knowledge of application containers, including WebSphere or Weblogic.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Java.
  • Foundational understanding of performance testing principles.
  • Competency in SQL.

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