Lesson 1: Platform Architecture, Installation, and System Foundations

This lesson develops practical understanding of platform architecture, installation, and system foundations for the AIX Patching Training.

Topics Covered

• Hardware and operating-system architecture, components, terminology, and management tools
• Installation, configuration, devices, adapters, partitions, and environment validation
• Users, groups, permissions, services, packages, and system startup
• Storage, networking, filesystems, and resource-management foundations
• Platform setup and baseline review

Lesson Outcome

Learners complete this lesson with the ability to explain, apply, validate, and troubleshoot the covered infrastructure workflow.