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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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