MFJ Associates - The Performance People

CNP-01

This two day course assumes that the student has been involved with computer systems and network for a least two years.

Day 1

1. Computer and network hardware components
   • CPU
   • memory
   • disk
   • LAN interface
2. Operating systems
   • CPU scheduling
   • virtual memory
   • anatomy of an I/O
   • processes
   • resource sharing
3. Basic performance concepts
   • law of large numbers
   • Amdhal's law
   • basic queuing theory
   • Little results
   • The bottleneck concept
4. Basic networking concepts
   • network building blocks
     • hubs
     • switch
     • bridge
     • routers
   • protocols
     • Ethernet
     • TCP/IP

   Day 2

    

5. Metrics
   • system
   • network
6. System and network tools
   • UNIX
   • Windows
7. Case studies