Course Outline

Introduction to Performance Testing for Government

  • Performance testing life cycle.
  • Interpretation of performance test results.

Understanding Various Architectures/Application Models for Government

  • 2/3 tier architecture
  • N-tier architecture
  • Middleware-based architecture (e.g., MQ, Web services)

Technology for Government

  • Basic UNIX commands (grep, find, vi editor, etc.)
  • Basic Oracle/SQL (queries, tables, triggers, etc.)
  • Basic C/Java concepts

Detailed Analysis - Monitoring Concepts and Tools for Government

  • Hardware Monitoring (Windows - Perfmon, UNIX - nmon, vmstat)
    • Run queue (average processor queue length)
    • Network I/O
    • Disk I/O
    • Memory (available, used, paging space, file system cache, etc.)
    • CPU (available, virtual, online, entitled, etc.)
  • Web Server/App Server Monitoring
    • JVM (Java heap) - heap dump analysis
    • Connection pool
    • Thread pool
  • Understanding of various monitoring tools, such as CA Wily Introscope, IBM Tivoli, etc.
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning
    • SQL Trace
    • AWR or Statspack analysis
    • Query plan
  • Understanding of bandwidth and FTP
  • Network monitoring using HTTPWatch or Fiddler

Requirements

  • Understanding of databases such as Oracle, for government applications.
  • Familiarity with application containers like WebSphere or WebLogic.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Java.
  • Knowledge of performance testing methodologies.
  • Competence in SQL for data management and analysis.
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