AIX Assessment Test

An AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) Assessment Test evaluates candidates for their proficiency in IBM's UNIX-based operating system, AIX. This assessment typically covers the following aspects:

1. AIX Fundamentals: Assessing candidates' understanding of basic AIX concepts, including file systems, directory structures, user management, permissions, and basic system administration tasks.
2. AIX Commands and Utilities: Testing candidates' knowledge of commonly used AIX commands and utilities for system management, file manipulation, process control, networking, user administration, and troubleshooting.
3. System Configuration and Maintenance: Evaluating candidates' ability to configure and maintain AIX systems, including tasks such as configuring system parameters, managing storage, setting up networking, scheduling tasks, and performing system backups and restores.
4. Shell Scripting: Assessing candidates' proficiency in shell scripting on AIX using shell languages such as Bourne shell (sh), Korn shell (ksh), or Bash shell (bash) for automating system administration tasks, creating custom utilities, and performing system monitoring and logging.
5. Performance Monitoring and Tuning: Testing candidates' ability to monitor system performance using tools like vmstat, iostat, topas, and nmon, identify performance bottlenecks, analyze system resource utilization, and implement tuning measures to optimize system performance.
6. Security Administration: Evaluating candidates' knowledge of AIX security features and best practices, including user authentication, access control, file system permissions, auditing, firewall configuration, and vulnerability management to ensure the security and integrity of AIX systems.
7. High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Assessing candidates' understanding of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) concepts and their ability to configure and manage HA solutions such as IBM PowerHA SystemMirror and implement backup and recovery strategies to minimize downtime and data loss.
8. Virtualization and LPAR Management: Testing candidates' familiarity with AIX virtualization technologies, including Logical Partitioning (LPAR), Virtual I/O Server (VIOS), and Workload Partitions (WPAR), and their ability to create, configure, and manage virtualized environments on AIX systems.
9. Networking and Communications: Evaluating candidates' knowledge of AIX networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP configuration, network services configuration (DNS, DHCP, NTP), troubleshooting network connectivity issues, and securing network communications using firewalls and encryption.
10. Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution: Assessing candidates' problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose and resolve common issues and errors encountered in AIX environments, including hardware failures, software conflicts, performance degradation, and system crashes.

Overall, the AIX Assessment Test aims to identify candidates with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively manage, maintain, and troubleshoot AIX systems in enterprise environments, ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of mission-critical business applications running on AIX platforms.