I will teach complete administration and configuration for WebSphere Application Server. 

Topics include:

1. Inside WebSphere Application Server

• WAS Architecture
• JVM
• Web container
• EJB container
• Virtual hosts
• Environment settings
• Resources
• JNDI
• Application file types

2. Installing WebSphere Application Server on Windows and Linux

• Installation planning
• Installation scenarios
• Profile types

Graphical installation

Part 1— Installing the base binaries

• Downloading WAS 8 .5
• Downloading IBM Installation Manager
• Installing IIM
• Installing WAS using IBM Installation Manager
• Verifying the installed binaries
• Installation logs

Part 2— Creating a WAS profile

• Profile Manager Tools (PMT) logs and files
• Administrative console

Uninstalling WAS

• Manually deleting profiles
• Uninstalling WAS using IIM

Silent Installation

3. Deployments:

• Deploying an application
• Data Sources
• JDBC Providers

4. Security

• Global Security
• Local Operating System
• Standalone LDAP
• xml
• Administrative roles
• LTPA

5. Server Configuration
   WAS file structure

• XML configuration files
• Logs and trace
• NSCA and the HTTP logging feature
• High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL)
• Java Virtual Machine (JVM) settings

6. Monitoring and Tuning

• Using Tivoli Performance Viewer
• JVM core and heap dumps
• Analyzing a Java core (thread) dump

7. Administrative Features
8. Creating an administration profile
9. Configuring Cluster
10. IBM HTTP Server
11. The WebSphere plugin
12. Configuring SSL
13. Real Time Scenarios – Performance Tuning
14. Interview Questions