UWIN Pro's Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 10 Exam I course provides information about the essential tasks of standalone installation, file system management, backup procedures, process control, user administration, and device management. Learners enrolled in this course will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these essential system administration tasks in the Solaris 10 Operating Environment.

Objective

This course prepares students for the Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 10 Exam certification exam SA-200-S10, and is a prerequisite for Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 9 Exam II (SA-202-S10).

Audience

Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 9 Exam I is designed for system administrators who are new to the Solaris 9 operating system.

Minimum Prerequisites

Prior to enrolling in Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 9 Exam I, learners should have experience using or managing a computer system running under any variant of UNIX. Learners should also have experience in a Solaris operating environment as an end-user, using the vi text editor, and working with a windowing system.

Included Labs

• Viewing Environment Variables and Man Pages
• Safely rebooting a hung system
• Adding a new boot disk
• Removing and Adding a Package
• Adding, Removing, and Spooling Packages
• Obtaining, Installing and Backing out patches
• Making system changes with loadable modules
• Changing init levels on a multi-user system
• Manipulating users and groups
• Using grep to Search and Identify
• Using ls and chmod
• Creating and Modifying Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Finding and Manipulating System Processes
• Using a CD Without Volume Management
• Using removable media to back up data
• Creating Compressed Archives
• Setting Up Start and Kill Scripts for System Binaries
• Restoring a bad Superblock
• Using the tar command
• Backing Up Files with ufsdump
• Partitioning a Disk using the All Free Hog Table
• Using Commands to Copy, Create, Rename and Remove
• Using Commands to Create and Remove Directories
• Editing Files with vi
• Using Remote Access Commands
• Using FTP to Transfer Files

What will you learn?

Sun Microsystems Solaris 10: System Administration I

Day 1

Module 1: Introducing the Solaris 10 OS Directory Hierarchy

• Explain the Solaris 10 OS directory hierarchy.
• Describe file components
• Describe file types
• Use hard links and symbolic links

Module 2: Managing Local Disk Devices

• Describe the basic architecture of a disk
• Describe the naming conventions for devices
• List devices
• Reconfigure devices
• Perform hard disk partitioning
• Manage disk labels
• Describe the Solaris Management Console
• Partition a disk by using the Solaris Management Console

Day 2

Module 3: Managing Solaris OS File systems

• Describe Solaris OS file systems
• Create a new UFS file system
• Check the file system using the fsck command
• Resolve file system inconsistencies
• Monitor file system use

Module 4: Performing Mounts and Unmounts

• Identify mounting basics
• Perform mounts
• Perform unmounts
• Access a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
• Restrict access to a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
• Access a diskette or CD-ROM without Volume Management (vold)

Day 3

Module 5: Installation Requirements for the Solaris 10 OS

• Installation methods
• Identify fundamentals of DVD installation
• Hardware requirements for Solaris OS installation
• Solaris 10 OS installation and upgrade options
• Explain the Solaris 10 OS installation and upgrade options for CD / DVD, including how to provide   Minimal Installations for SPARC, x64, and x86-based systems.
• Perform an OS installation from CD / DVD for SPARC/ x64/x86- based systems.

Day 4

Module 6: Performing Solaris 10 OS Package Administration

• Describe the fundamentals of package administration
• Administer packages using the command-line interface

Module 7: Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 10 OS

• Describe the fundamentals of patch administration
• Install and remove patches and patch clusters

Day 5

Module 8: Executing Boot PROM Commands

• Identify boot programmable read-only memory (PROM) fundamentals
• Use basic boot PROM commands
• Identify the system's boot device
• Create and remove custom device aliases
• View and change non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters from the shell
• Interrupt an unresponsive system

Day 6

Module 9: Using GRUB

• Introduction to GRUB
• Influencing boot behaviour with GRUB

Module 10: Performing Boot and Shutdown Procedures

• Describe the features of the Service Management Facility
• Identify run level fundamentals
• Compare run levels and SMF milestones
• Identify the phases of the boot process
• Use SMF administrative commands
• Control boot processes
• Perform system shutdown procedures

Day 7

Module 11: Performing User Administration

• Describe user administration fundamentals
• Manage user accounts
• Manage initialization files

Module 12: Introducing System Security

• Monitor system access
• Switch users on a system
• Control system access
• Restrict access to data in files

Day 8

Module 13: Configuring and Using Printer Services

• Identify network printing fundamentals
• Configure printer services
• Administer printer services
• Start and stop the line printer (LP) print service
• Specify a destination printer
• Use the LP print service

Day 9

Module 14: Controlling System Processes

• View system processes
• Kill frozen processes
• Schedule an automatic one-time execution of a command
• Schedule an automatic recurring execution of a command

Module 8: Performing File System Backups

• Identify the fundamentals of backups
• Back up an unmounted file system

Module 16: Performing File System Restores

• Restore UFS file systems
• Explain disaster recovery fundamentals

Day 10

Module 17: Backing Up a Mounted File System With a UFS Snapshot

• Create a UFS snapshot
• Back up the snapshot file
• Revision, questions and answers