IBM Certification Study Guide AIX V4.3 System Support

2.11 Exercises

On a test system that does not affect any users, perform a new and complete overwrite installation.
On a test system that does not affect any users, perform a migration install to upgrade AIX to the next release level. Note what data is saved and what data is removed.
On a test system that does not affect any users, perform a smit update_all to upgrade AIX to the next modification level.
On a test system that does not affect any users, perform a preservation install to reinstall the same version, release, and modification level of the operating system. Note what data is saved and what data is removed.
Use the various flags of the lppchk command to verify the checksum, the file sizes, the symbolic links, and the requisites of the software products installed.
Check the $HOME/smit.log for the installp command output log.
Use the various flags of the oslevel command to show the level of the operating system, the known maintenance levels of the operating system installed on the system, the lists at levels earlier than the specified level parameter, and the filesets at levels later than the current maintenance level.
Use the lslpp command to find out which fileset is used to package a given command.