Duties of the system administrator
System initialization
- The AIX boot process
- Starting and stopping the daemons
Users, groups, and security
- Administration files and default settings
- Enhanced concepts (group security, ACLs ...)
-  Authentication methods (LAM and PAM)
Devices
- Tasks of the ODM and the configuration files
- Special files
Logical Volume Manager - LVM
- Structure and definitions of the LVM
- Mirroring and striping
- Using paging spaces
File systems
- File system types in AIX (jfs, jfs2, NFS, cdrfs, udfs)
-- Tools to manage the file systems
Backup and Restore
- Common commands (backup, tar, pax, cpio, dd)
- System backup and volume group backup
Printing with AIX
- Configuration of the spooler (qconfig, virtual printer)
- Configure a printer, basic commands
Software administration
- Installation and administration of new software
-  System updates and fixes
- Softwaredocumentation (snap)
Installing the Base Operating System (BOS)
- Methods (overwrite, preserve, migrate)
- base configuration
TCP/IP
- Basic configuration of TCP/IP
- Concepts of NFS, Samba, and ssh