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IBM AIX Administrator study guide

IBM AIX Administrator · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.

The IBM Certified Administrator - AIX 7.2 credential is presented by IBM Training as a professional certification aimed at administrators who run IBM Power systems on the AIX 7.2 operating system. It is intended for practitioners who handle day-to-day system administration on AIX: workload and device management, storage and filesystem layout, user and security administration, backup and recovery, and performance troubleshooting. Candidates are typically working administrators, Power systems support staff, or infrastructure engineers who want a formal marker of AIX 7.2 competence. One important caution before you plan anything. The IBM Training certification page for this credential, as retrieved on 2026-11-05, does not display exam details. It shows the heading "Certification not found" and the text "This certification does not exist or is not available." The requested URL also redirected to a page marked invalid. Topics on this exam: AIX 7.2 system administration (topics not enumerated in source). The IBM AIX Administrator study guide has 1 section and about 431 words.

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AIX 7.2 System Administration

AIX 7.2 administration is examined here as one open-ended domain: the blueprint enumerates no subtopics, so questions can come from any part of day-two operations - LVM and JFS2 storage, boot and init, error logging and SRC, the /etc/security files, and PowerVM-aware jobs such as mksysb and WPAR. Expect command-level recall plus "what happens next" reasoning. Physical volumes feed volume groups, which are carved into logical volumes, which carry JFS2 filesystems. The ODM (/etc/objrepos) is authoritative for device and VG configuration, and a VGDA copy is written to each PV.

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More study resources for IBM AIX Administrator

  • Practice questionsOn AIX 7.2, which command displays the current run level and the previous run level of the system?
  • FlashcardsPhysical partition size. The fixed allocation unit of an AIX volume group, normally 16 MB for native VGs and chosen at mkvg time with -s; changing it later requires recreating the VG.
  • Cheat sheetLVM hierarchy: physical volume (PV) - volume group (VG) - logical volume (LV) - file system; a PV is divided into physical partitions (PPs), each typically 16 MB for AIX native VGs, and each LP maps to one or more PPs depending on the LV copy count.
  • Key termsObject Data Manager (ODM). A system configuration database on AIX made of object classes stored in files under /etc/objrepos, /usr/lib/objrepos and /usr/share/lib/objrepos.
  • Study planMap the AIX 7.2 administration surface area into a personal checklist covering installation and boot, device and LVM storage, filesystems, networking, users and security, workload partitions, and problem determination, then rank each area by your current confidence.
  • Common mistakesCandidates confuse inittab with a live process table; init reads inittab at boot and on telinit -q, so edits sit dormant and the candidate then misdiagnoses the missing service as a broken script.
  • Exam-day guideBring the original, unexpired ID with a signature that matches the name on your exam registration.