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About This Course

This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to debug and troubleshoot low-level Windows applications. The course provides a detailed view of the Windows operating system architecture, its key components, undocumented interfaces and core interactions through the use of debugging utilities, inspection tools and exercises.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for escalation and support engineers with substantial experience administering and troubleshooting applications and systems on Windows.

Prerequites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Familiarity with the Windows operating system on a power-user level.
• Familiarity with operating systems concepts (multiprocessing, thread scheduling, virtual memory) is preferable but not a must.
• Working knowledge of the C or C++ programming language

  At Course Completion

  After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Use debugging tools to troubleshoot user-mode and kernel-mode issues.
  • Appreciate the relationships between system components and their interactions with each other.
  • Improve application performance by understanding how the system behaves internally.