Test 000-103: AIX 6.1 Basic Operations

Understand and manipulate AIX filesystems (23%)

1. Determine current working directory
2. Change between directories
3. List the contents of a directory
4. Understand absolute and relative paths
5. Determine file system type
6. Rename, copy, move and delete files
7. Create, rename and delete directories
8. Locate files and directories (find command)
9. Change permissions associated with a file or directory
10. Understand symbolic and hard links
11. Show the contents of a file (pg, more, cat)

Understand AIX Storage (13%)

1. Understand the difference between physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes and filesystems
2. Determine which file systems are currently mounted
3. List system disks
4. Determine the used and available space of filesystems (lsfs, df, etc)
5. Determine the space available in a volume group
6. Determine which file systems are in a volume group
7. List available paging space
8. Mount filesystems, CD, and tape devices

Manage printing (4%)

1. List status of print queues and jobs
2. Print to a specific print queue
3. Cancel print jobs

Access a system (8%)

1. Start terminal session on the HMC
2. Telnet or SSH to a system
3. Transfer a file between systems (ftp / scp / sftp)
4. Determine IP address and hostname assigned to a system
5. Determine system connectivity (ping)

Using vi (9%)

1. Create or open a file using vi
2. Close a file using vi, both with and without saving changes
3. Add, delete and change text using vi
4. Find/replace using basic substitution, and search for text strings using vi
5. Copy and/or move text using vi
6. Navigating within vi (changing cursor position, etc.)

Korn shell (9%)

1. Redirect standard in, standard out, standard error, and pipe output to another command
2. Use shell history to look at previous commands
3. Run shell scripts
4. Use wildcard, regular expressions, and meta characters on the command line
5. Run a command in the background, and so it does not terminate upon exit

User management (8%)

1. Reset passwords
2. Show which groups a user belongs to
3. View and understand user permissions
4. Control logged-in users
5. Understand the login process (what happens during login)

Basic process control (11%)

1. Determine which processes are currently running on the system
2. Stop a process, or running or pending job.
3. Use at and cron to manage scheduled tasks
4. View pending jobs
5. Understand and use topas

Other operator tasks (11%)

1. Describe the function and use of smit
2. Use 'man' pages
3. View system logs and errors (errrpt, syslog, alog)
4. Create, read, delete and forward mail
5. Use commands to find devices and determine their status (lsdev, lscfg)
6. Understand and run different types of backups
7. Understand environment variables (e.g. TERM, EDITOR)

Advanced tasks (4%)

1. Shutdown and reboot the system
2. Start or stop logical partitions
3. Recognize system or partition hangs and crashes