• Overview on protocols
• Structured the script based on planning
• VuGen
• Recording options
• Guidelines for recording levels

• Adding transactions, comments,rendezvous
• Handle success, error and exception

• Parameterization of scripts - File, Table and XML types
• Run-time configuration

• Create multiple actions in a Vuser script
• Add transaction to measure response times

• Identify visual cues to check  for during load testing
• Add text Checkpoints during and after recording

• Distinguish b/n available correlation methods
• Understanding correlation function
• Use the scan for Correlation tool

• Controller
• Explain elements that make a LoadRunner scenario
• Identify different types of scenarios
• Methods to choose the scenario

Script and scenario run - Time settings and configuration of Run time settings in controller

• Prepare for a scenario run
• Identify techniques to efficiently run a scenario
• Define SLA

• Scheduling group and by scenario
• Configure scenario ramp up and down

• LoadGenerators
• LoadRunner Architecture
• Defining Generators - Criteria, and Guidelines 
• Add Generator(s) to the scenario
• Configure Generator Settings

• PerformanceMonitors
• Value of Performance Monitors
• Performance Overlays to track down Bottle necks

Designing Scenarios
Goal-Oriented Scenario
Manual Scenario
Scenario Schedule
Schedule By Scenario
Schedule By Group
Basic Schedule
Real-world schedule
Start Vusers (Ramp Up)
Duration (Steady state)
Stop Vusers (Ramp down)
Execution of different types of test
Design Calculations
Vusers Status in the execution

OS level
Windows
UNIX
Server level
IIS
WEB LOGIC
ORACLE
SQL
Performance Metrics
Counters
Monitoring tools
Perfmon
Controller

Summary Report
Calculation of 90th percentile
Running Vusers Graph
Hits per Second
Throughput
Calculation of throughput
Transaction Summary
Average Transaction Response Time
Root and casual analysis
Graph Settings
OS level (CPU & Memory utilization)

Issues
Scripting level
Execution level
Analysis level
Rendezvous point and IP spoofing
Status Codes and port numbers
Diff B/W the functions and their uses

POC
Day to day activities
End to end process of load testing
Identifying bottle necks
Making reports (HTML/Word)
Daily Status Reports

Workbench - Scripting and Execution
True Log Explorer - Checking Logs
Explorer - Monitoring and Analysis

BDL Scripting
Scripting Enhancements
Comments
Measuring Points
Check Points
Data Parsing
Parameterization
Agent Pool Connection

Steady State
All day
Dynamic
Queuing

Add counters to monitor
OS level
Server level

Creating and analyzing baseline report
Generating reports from silk performer explorer
Merging i@ and m@ files
Test reports preparation