IBM and LearnQuest Badge Program - AIX
LearnQuest is working together with IBM to offer IBM training courses and award digital badges upon successful completion and attainment of course objectives.
IBM Badge Courses AIX Series offered by LearnQuest:
- AIX Storage Management - Code: AN18G
- LearnQuest IBM AIX Foundations
- Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination - Code: AN15G
- LearnQuest Power Systems for AIX II AIX Implementation and Administration
- LearnQuest IBM AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals
- LearnQuest IBM AIX Virtualization
- LearnQuest IBM AIX LPAR Configuration and Planning
- LearnQuest IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Planning, Implementation, Customization and Admin Foundations
- LearnQuest IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Advanced Configuration
- LearnQuest IBM Korn and Bash Shell Programming
- LearnQuest IBM AIX Network Installation Management Concepts and Configuration
AIX Storage Management - Code: AN18G
This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how AIX interacts with Fibre Channel physical and virtual storage devices. Topics cover common operational issues such as performance and problem solving from the perspective of an AIX administrator.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: AIX Storage Management - Code: AN18G
LearnQuest IBM AIX Foundations
This badge holder can perform everyday tasks using the AIX operating system. The recipient can manage files and directories, write simple shell scripts, use the vi editor, execute commands, manage processes, customize the working environment, and use common utilities and the Common Desktop Environment.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, and participation in question & answer sessions and/or assessments associated with:
- Logging in & setting a password
- Managing files & directories
- Describing the purpose of the shell & writing shell scripts
- Using the vi editor
- Executing commands & managing processes
- Customizing & using the working environment
- Using common utilities & the Common Desktop Environment
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Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination - Code: AN15G
This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding advanced AIX system administrator skills with a focus on availability and problem determination. This includes detailed knowledge of the ODM database where AIX maintains so much configuration information; how to monitor for and deal with AIX problems; dealing with Logical Volume Manager problems, including procedures for replacing disks; and several techniques for minimizing the system maintenance window.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination - Code: AN15G.
LearnQuest Power Systems for AIX II AIX Implementation and Administration
This badge holder has proven their ability to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser Power Systems partitioned environment. The student has proved competency on AIX 7.1 running on a Power Systems server managed by Hardware Management Console. This badge holder has also prven competant using shell windows to script actionable commands.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question and answer sessions and/or assessments associated with the following topics:
- Install the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) package
- Perform system startup and shutdown
- Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and IBM Systems Director console for AIX
- Manage physical and logical devices
- Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
- Perform logical volume and file system management
- Create and manage user and group accounts
- Perform and restore system backups
- Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks, and security to implement customized access of files and directories
- Configure TCP/IP networking
- Define and run basic Workload Partitions (WPAR)
Recommended next steps:
- AT11GW AIX Problem Determination I Boot Issues
- U8AN12G AIX: Basics, Implementation, and Administration
Evidence: Transcript reflects student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question and answer sessions and/or assessments.
LearnQuest IBM AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals
This badge holder is an experienced UNIX administrator who is able to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment. The recipient is able to perform system startup and shutdown, use SMIT and Systems Director console, manage physical and logical devices, restore system backups, use error log for problem determination, and configure TCP/IP.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, & participation in question & answer sessions and/or assessments associated with:
- Installing the operating system, filesets, & RPM packages
- Performing system startup & shutdown
- Using SMIT & Systems Director console
- Managing physical & logical devices
- Restoring system backups
- Using error log for problem determination
- Configuring TCP/IP
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LearnQuest IBM AIX Virtualization
This badge holder can explain the PowerVM edition's features on POWER6, POWER7, and POWER8 processor-based systems, which explains the new features and benefits of virtualization including processor virtualization, Virtual I/O Server, and virtual devices, such as virtual Ethernet, virtual SCSI, and virtual Fibre Channel adapters. The recipient has gone through basic and advanced configurations of the Virtual I/O Server and was made aware of various availability options.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Understanding PowerVM, multithreading, storage pools, virtual optical devices, micro-partitioning, & shared processor LPARs
- Configuring IVE, network devices, SCSI, Fibre Channel adapters, & the VIO Server
- Managing service events, call home, add, exchange FRUs, & FSP failover
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LearnQuest IBM AIX LPAR Configuration and Planning
This badge holder can perform system administration in a Power Systems environment. Learn about the features of PowerVM Editions and how to configure and manage LPARs running AIX using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Understanding logical partitioning, dynamic partitioning, virtual devices, VLAN & shared processors;
- Configuring & managing the HMC, including users, permissions, software, start, shutdown, remote access features, network configuration, security features, back-up, restore options, & reload procedure.
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LearnQuest IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Planning, Implementation, Customization and Admin Foundations
This badge holder can install and configure a highly available cluster using PowerHA SystemMirror.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Understanding high availability & capabilities of PowerHA SystemMirror;
- Designing a highly available PowerHA cluster;
- Configuring resource group startup, fallover, & fallback policies;
- Performing basic system administration tasks, basic customization, basic problem determination & recovery.
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LearnQuest IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Advanced Configuration
his badge holder can explain the latest features in PowerHA SystemMirror. The recipient is able to effectively administer and monitor an IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX cluster, as well as implement PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX's more complex options.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
adge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Creating four-node clusters with two independent resource groups, dependencies & customized event notifications;
- Integrating WPAR and DLPAR with applications under PowerHA control, & applications using Smart Assists.
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LearnQuest IBM Korn and Bash Shell Programming
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with using shell scripts and utilities for practical system administration of AIX (or other UNIX) operating systems.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Distinguishing Korn and Bash shell specific features;
- Using utilities such as sed and awk to manipulate data;
- Understanding system shell scripts such as /etc/shutdown;
- Writing useful shell scripts to aid system administration.
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LearnQuest IBM AIX Network Installation Management Concepts and Configuration
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with a working knowledge of the fundamental capabilities of the Network Installation Management (NIM) facility of the AIX 7.1 operating system.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with: Displaying NIM-related info; Setting up NIM master; Performing base AIX (RTE); Defining & using NIM objects; Creating & using mksysb resource; Maintaining lppsource & SPOT resources.