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Introduction to Performance Testing

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

Exploring Architectures and Application Models

  • 2-tier and 3-tier architectures.
  • N-tier architectures.
  • Architectures leveraging Middleware (such as MQ, Webservices, etc.).

Core Technologies

  • Essential UNIX commands (including grep, find, vi editor, etc.).
  • Fundamental Oracle/SQL concepts (Queries, Tables, Triggers, etc.).
  • Basic principles of C and Java programming.

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 (Available, Used, Paging space, FS Cache, etc.)
    • CPU (Available, virtual, online, entitled, etc.)
  • Web Server and Application Server Monitoring
    • JVM (Java heap) -heap dump analysis
    • Connection Pool
    • Thread Pool
  • Familiarization with key monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli.
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning techniques.
    • SQL Trace analysis.
    • AWR or Statspack interpretation.
    • Query plan analysis.
  • Concepts of Bandwidth and FTP.
  • Network Monitoring techniques using HTTPwatch or Fiddler.

Requirements

  • Familiarity with database systems such as Oracle.
  • Proficiency with application containers including WebSphere, Weblogic, and similar platforms.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Java.
  • Foundational knowledge of performance testing methodologies.
  • Working knowledge of SQL.
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