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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