Objectives on AIX 7 Administratione – TEST 000-221:

System Availability (10%)

1. Identify resources used by Cluster Aware AIX
2. Configure dump devices and analyze output
3. Determine elements necessary to reduce single points of failure
4. Understand geographical logical volume manager (GLVM)
5. Maintain hardware (CEC/Blade Hardware), deferred or concurrent firmware, AMM firmware (for Power Blades), whether an adapter replacement or new installation.

Storage Management (21%)

1. Create and manage filesystems
2. Create and manage logical volumes
3. Create and manage volume groups
4. Manage physical and virtual devices
5. Manage storage devices (traditional disk, Solid State Drives, and tape) including redundancy

System and Network Security (4%)

1. Configure Role Based Access Control
2. Configure and Manage remote access

Partition Management (11%)

1. Configure and manage Logical Partitions (LPARs), including DLPAR operations
2. Create and manage Workload Partitions (WPAR), including Versioned WPARs and planning for Live Application Mobility
3. Understand HMC, SDMC and IVM interfaces
4. Create and Manage VIO Server partitions (including working with virtual repositories)
5. Understand and explain LPAR and WPAR migration and mobility at a basic level

Performance Management and Tuning

1. Use performance monitoring tools, and plan for future growth
2. Analyze output from performance monitoring tools
3. Configure system tunables to support optimal application performance

1. Configure network devices (including Etherchannel, IPv4, and IPv6)
2. Troubleshoot network issues
3. Configure TCP/IP, with and without VLAN support

System Management (18%)

1. Create, maintain and modify user accounts
2. Manage services and subsystems (using chtcp, etc)
3. Configure Electronic Service Agent
4. Configure the system and device attributes
5. Use AIX system management tools (for example: DSM, Director, NIM)
6. Install, apply, commit, or reject software
7. Create and manage paging space
8. Use Cron and At functions

Install and Manage AIX (11%)

1. Understand and manage AIX instance startup
2. Backup and restore AIX
3. Migrate WPARs from AIX 6 to AIX 7
4. Install AIX and use NIM environments
5. Install Versioned WPARs

General administrative tasks (7%)

1. Create and use ksh and Perl scripts at a basic level
2. Use AIX commands such as TAR, CPIO, DD, RPM, SAVEVGSTRUC, and explain their use

reference :

http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/edu221.shtml

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