EX442 – Red Hat Certified Specialist in Performance Tuning Exam :

Study points for the exam To help you prepare, the exam objectives highlight the task areas you can expect to see covered in the exam. Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove exam objectives. Such changes will be made public in advance. Candidates should be able to perform the tasks listed below: 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 * Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning An RHCE interested in earning Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) Study points for the exam To help you prepare, the exam objectives highlight the task areas you can expect to see covered in the exam. Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove exam objectives. Such changes will be made public in advance. Candidates should be able to perform the tasks listed below: 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 As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention. Scores and reporting Official scores for exams come exclusively from Red Hat Certification Central. Red Hat does not authorize examiners or training partners to report results to candidates directly. Scores on the exam are usually reported within 3 U.S. business days. Exam results are reported as section scores. Red Hat does not report performance on individual items, nor will it provide additional information upon request. Prerequisites Red Hat recommends that candidates ea> Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) before attempting this exam but neither is required. Exam candidates should: Be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or have comparable work experience and s ...