• Java EE application server concepts
• Role of a WebSphere Administrator
• WebSphere editions and versions
• Application server use cases
• WAS architecture overview
• Cell, node, and server concepts
• Application server and deployment manager
• Node agent role
• Request processing flow
• Standalone vs network deployment
• Installing WebSphere Application Server
• Profile creation
• Deployment Manager setup
• Verifying installation
• Environment configuration basics
• Managing servers and nodes
• Starting and stopping servers
• Configuration navigation
• Managing applications
• Administrative best practices
• Deploying applications
• Application configuration settings
• Managing application versions
• Starting and stopping applications
• Troubleshooting deployment issues
• Heap size configuration
• Garbage collection concepts
• JVM tuning parameters
• Server startup parameters
• Performance best practices
• Global security configuration
• Authentication mechanisms
• Authorization and roles
• SSL and certificate management
• Security best practices
• JDBC providers
• Data source creation
• Connection pooling
• Testing database connections
• Database performance considerations
• Creating server clusters
• Load balancing basics
• Session management in clusters
• High availability concepts
• Cluster monitoring
• Monitoring server resources
• Thread pool configuration
• Web container tuning
• Application performance metrics
• Performance monitoring tools
• Log configuration
• System and application logs
• Monitoring server health
• Alerting and notifications
• Log analysis techniques







