Understand AIX Storage (13%)

Understand the difference between physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes and filesystems
Determine which file systems are currently mounted
List system disks
Determine the used and available space of filesystems (lsfs, df, etc)
Determine the space available in a volume group
Determine which file systems are in a volume group
List available paging space
Mount filesystems, CD, and tape devices

Manage printing (4%)

List status of print queues and jobs
Print to a specific print queue
Cancel print jobs

Access a system (8%)

Start terminal session on the HMC
Telnet or SSH to a system
Transfer a file between systems (ftp / scp / sftp)
Determine IP address and hostname assigned to a system
Determine system connectivity (ping)

Using vi (9%)

Create or open a file using vi
Close a file using vi, both with and without saving changes
Add, delete and change text using vi
Find/replace using basic substitution, and search for text strings using vi
Copy and/or move text using vi
Navigating within vi (changing cursor position, etc.)

Korn shell (9%)

Redirect standard in, standard out, standard error, and pipe output to another command
Use shell history to look at previous commands
Run shell scripts
Use wildcard, regular expressions, and meta characters on the command line
Run a command in the background, and so it does not terminate upon exit

User management (8%)

Reset passwords
Show which groups a user belongs to
View and understand user permissions
Control logged-in users
Understand the login process (what happens during login)

Basic process control (11%)

Determine which processes are currently running on the system
Stop a process, or running or pending job.
Use at and cron to manage scheduled tasks
View pending jobs
Understand and use topas

Other operator tasks (11%)

Describe the function and use of smit
Use ‘man’ pages
View system logs and errors (errrpt, syslog, alog)
Create, read, delete and forward mail
Use commands to find devices and determine their status (lsdev, lscfg)
Understand and run different types of backups
Understand environment variables (e.g. TERM, EDITOR)

Advanced tasks (4%)

Shutdown and reboot the system
Start or stop logical partitions
Recognize system or partition hangs and crashes