Section 1 –
Planning - Determine resource needs,
features and limitations of required and installed hardware and OS levels, and
redundancy requirements.
- Describe Virtualization
- LPAR and DLPAR and Advanced Power Virtualization features, benefits,
functions, and VIO capabilities)
- Micropartioning and Virtual
I/O
- Differentiate between the methods used to assign resources to
virtual and standard LPARs
- Requirements for installing a virtual
server and virtual client LPARs
- LPAR resource requirements for
processor, memory and disk
- Partition mobility
- Energy
requirements and strategy
Section 2 – AIX and other OS
Installation and Update - Install AIX from Media using CD ROM or DVD
- Install software
updates (including a new version, technology level, service pack, Interim Fixes
or efix)
- Evaluate the options available for adding and removing
filesets (e.g. commit, apply, remove, reject)
- Identify the operating
system technology level and service pack level and installed
filesets
- Verify integrity of OS (e.g. lppchk)
- Use the lslpp
command to identify
- back level filesets
- install
history
- to which fileset a program belongs
- content of a fileset
- Differences between migration, preservation, and new and
complete overwrite installation
Section 3 - Boot
Process - Describe the boot
process (cfgmgr, file system mounts, application startup, rootvg varyon, BIST,
POST, boot, sector load, login enablement)
- Manage the boot
process
- Troubleshoot the boot process
Section 4 –
Configuration - Describe the function
of smit and wsm
- Configure and check network configuration
- Describe the function of NSORDER, /etc/netsvc.conf. and
/etc/resolv.conf
- Determine the daemons that are running in
TCP/IP
- +Describe the function of inetd and
/etc/inetd.conf
- Describe the function of /etc/hosts
- Describe
the methods of adding and removing routes
- Check for possible exposure
in system access files (e.g. /etc/hosts.equiv, .rhosts, .netrc, .forward
/etc/inetd.conf /etc/rc.tcpip)
- Describe the methods of Network
security (IP filtering, TCP wrapper
- Configure Ethernet
adapter (e.g. speed, duplex, virtual Ethernet, and Etherchannel)
- Use
NFS to import/export file systems (e.g. /etc/exports, biod, nfsd, lssrc –g
nfs.)
- Configure, list and modify paging space
- Determine/modify
existing device configuration
Section 5 - Storage and
LVM - Describe the
relationship between physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes
- Describe the relationship between logical volumes and filesystems
- Describe the relationship between physical and logical
partitions
- Describe the differences between JFS and JFS2, including
snapshot VGs
- Manage VGs (varyonvg, varoffvg, mkvg, importvg, exportvg,
lsvg)
- Manage logical volumes (mklv, rmlv, and lslv)
- Manage
filesystems (mount, fsck, chfs, mkfs, defragfs) including filesystem
logs
- Determine whether a filesystem is protected at a hardware or
software level (striped, mirrored, or RAID)
Section 6 –
Monitoring and Tuning - Monitor root
mail, error log, system log, and console log for error messages
- Monitor filesystem growth
- Use and interpret output from
system monitoring tools
- Understand and use AIX tuning commands and
parameters (vmo, ioo, lvmo, nfso, no, and /ect/tunables)
- Monitor
current security settings and access
Section 7 – Problem
Determination and Resolution - Select and use appropriate problem determination tools (e.g., errpt,
diag, netstat, ifconfig, ping, filemon, traceroute, truss, trace, dbx,
set-x)
- Describe how to determine and recover from a full
filesystem
- Manage a support call with IBM (e.g., open, severity levels,
escalation, closing, information gathering)
- Describe hot plug
procedure for replacing devices
- Select appropriate actions (e.g.,
usrck, grpck, file permissions, resetting failed login, attempts, user limits)
to correct user id issues
- Select appropriate actions (e.g., usrck,
grpck, file permissions, resetting failed login, attempts, user limits) to
correct user id issues
Section 8 – Backup and Recovery /
Disaster Recovery - Describe and employ methods of backing up and restoring the operating
system (e.g., mksysb, mkcd, mkdvd, alt_disk) including selectively altering and
excluding data during backup and restore process , and extracting individual
files
- Describe the differences between full, differential, and
incremental backups and their effect on backup and restore
window
- Identify the elements of disaster recovery plans based on
business needs
- Describe the system commands that document current
system configuration
- Describe methods of backing up and restoring data
and data structures (savevg and restvg, backup and restore, tar, cpio, pax,
mkcd, gzip, and alt_disk_copy)
- Describe methods to list and verify
contents of backup media
- Describe how to set and check local and
global variables
Section 9 - Daily Management - Manage user and
group accounts (add / delete / alter userids and passwords)
- Alter
default user profiles and limits (i.e., command shell profiles and
/etc/security)
- Define or modify AIX file and directory permissions
(e.g., user, group, other) using chmod, chown, chgrp
- Monitor user
access (who, w, last)
- Describe methods to monitor and manage processes
(e.g., ps, kill, nice, jobs, fuser, lsof, topas, svmon, contents of /proc,
lssrc, stopsrc, startsrc, and refresh commands)
- Use available network
access functionality (telnet, rsh, rexec, /etc/inetd.conf,
/etc/services)
- Determine which directories and files are filling a
filesystems (du, sort, find)
- Manage the print queuing subsystem
- Edit a file using vi
- Describe how to redirect stdin, stdout,
and stderr
- Describe how to schedule tasks ( cron or
at)
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