EX442K: Red Hat® Enterprise Performance Tuning Exam IES

$600.00


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Duration: 1 Day

The Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning Exam (IES) is a performance-based test of the skills covered in Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning (RH442). To enroll in this exam, you must hold a current Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification.

What You Will Learn

 

Audience

 

  • Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning
  • RHCEs interested in earning a Red Hat Certification of Expertise or an RHCA certification

Prerequistes

 

  • Current RHCE certification at the time the exam is taken
  • Real-world system administration experience is an important aspect of exam preparation

Course Outline

 

You should be able to:

  • Use utilities such as vmstat, iostat, mpstat, sar, gnome-system-monitor, top, powertop, and others to analyze and report system and application behavior
  • Configure systems to provide performance metrics using utilities such as RRDtool
  • Use the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) mechanism to implement restrictions on critical system resources
  • Configure graphical SNMP client utilities such as MRTG, RRDtool, etc.
  • Use the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) mechanism to implement restrictions on critical system resources
  • Use /proc/sys, sysctl, and /sys to examine and modify and set kernel run-time parameters
  • Use utilities such as dmesg, dmidecode, x86info, and sosreport to profile system hardware configurations
  • Analyze system and application behavior using tools, including ps, strace, top, and Valgrind
  • Configure systems to run SystemTap scripts
  • Alter process priorities of both new and existing processes
  • Configure systems to support alternate page sizes for applications that use large amounts of memory
  • Given multiple versions of applications that perform the same or similar tasks, choose which version of the application to run on a system based on its observed performance characteristics
  • Configure disk subsystems for optimal performance using mechanisms such as swap partition placement, I/O scheduling algorithm selection, and file system layout
  • Configure kernel behavior by altering module parameters
  • Calculate network buffer sizes based on known quantities such as bandwidth and round-trip time and set system buffer sizes based on those calculations
  • Select and configure tuned profiles.
  • Manage system resource usage using control groups

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.

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