Red Hat® Performance Tuning Course Content :



• Introduction to performance tuning
Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.


• Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data
Gain proficiency using basic analysis tools and evaluating data.


• General tuning
Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system.


• Limiting resource usage



• Hardware profiling
Understand and analyze hardware.


• Software profiling
Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.


• Small file tuning
Tune a server for a workload involving frequent reads and writes of small files.


• Large memory workload tuning
Understand memory management and tuning.


• Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload
Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications.


• File server tuning
Understand storage and network tuning in the context of a file server application.


• Database server tuning
Tune memory and network performance using a database application as an example.


• Power usage tuning
Tune systems with power consumption in mind.


• Virtualization tuning
Tune 'host' and 'guest' for efficient virtualization.

• Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning
• System Administrators, conultants and other IT professionals.

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• Recognition in the industry
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• Proof of knowledge and skills
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• Access to Red Hat Certification Central website

  • Download certification logo

  • Purchase Red Hat certification gear

  • Red Hat Certified Professionals forum

  • Online profile listed under your certification number

  • Red Hat Certified Professional job search

  • Special offers on training and events

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification or equivalent experience
• Candidates who have not earned their RHCE can confirm they have the correct skills by passing our online skills assessment
• RHCE certification or equivalent experience

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• Project Certificate from LinuxWorld Informatics Pvt Ltd (on successful completion of project)
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• DVD - Containing Software and RPM's
• Extra Software for Tech.
• Material in Printed Hard Copy

• 24 x 7 Wi Fi Enabled Lab Facility
• Life Time Membership (LTM) Card
• Expert faculty having 12+ yrs of Industrial Exposure
• Practical Implementation by having hands-on experience on live demo and real world's case studies project
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• Red Hat recommends that candidates earn Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) before attempting this exam but neither is required.
• 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 Performance Co-Pilot (PCP).
• 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, sosreport etc. to profile system hardware configurations
• Analyze system and application behavior using tools such as 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, file system layout and others
• 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

Length:4 Hours

• Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning
• An RHCE interested in earning Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

• Be a RHCSA or have comparable work experience and skills (RHCE would be even better).
• Have taken the Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning (RH442) course or have extensive work experience in performance tuning.
• Review the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning exam (EX442) objectives.

• 5 days exam bootcamp is conducted keeping in mind the revision of entire course in rapid track and by
  imparting the tips and tricks to easily crack the paper.
• Mock tests are conducted to judge the student's knowledge and then help them in improving their respective weak areas to excel in the exam.
• Cost for Exam Boot Camp : 4000/- INR (Its Free for LinuxWorld Student)