Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 OS Boot Camp is a 7 day program that offers an accelerated, residential, full-immersion course intended for system administrators preparing to perform essential and advanced system administration procedures in the latest Solaris 10 Operating System and seeking Sun Certification as a Systems Administrator. The course provides students with hands-on experience working with essential and complex administration tasks. It includes the supplementary assessments throughout the week to validate learning needs as well as the certification exams. Students will undertake a series of lectures and lab exercises focusing on attaining the SCSA certification. What is included in Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 OS Boot Camp course: Intensive Hands-On Training utilizing Lecture, Lab, Review delivery Comprehensive Study Materials, Program Courseware and Self-Testing software Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access Examination vouchers On site testing Accomodation, breakfast and lunch, beverages and snacks Examination passing policy

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Students who can benefit from this course are System Administrators preparing to perform essential and advanced system administration procedures in the latest Solaris 10 Operating System and seeking Sun Certification as a Systems Administrator.

To succeed fully in this course, students should:

• Have a good understanding of basic Unix commands and tasks
• Understand the file system structure and be able to modify the contents of files and directories
• Use the vi editor proficiently

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Manage Local and Networked File Systems
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform user and security administration
• Manage network printers and system processes
• Perform system backups and restores
• Describe network interface configuration
• Manage swap configuration and core dumps
• Manage storage volumes
• Control access and configure system messaging
• Set up name services
• Configure Role Based Access Control
• Use Name Services (DNS, LDAP, NIS)
• Implement and Manage Zones
• Configure Automated Installations (Jumpstart)

Module 1 - Introducing the Solaris 10 Directory Hierarchy

• Describe / (root) subdirectories
• Describe file components
• Describe file types
• Use hard links

• 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 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

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

• Describe package

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

• Identify fundamentals of DVD installation
• Solaris 10 OS installation and upgrade options
• Hardware requirements for Solaris OS installation

• Identify boot programmable read-only memory (PROM) fundamentals
• Use basic boot PROM commands
• Identify the systems 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

• Introduction to GRUB
• Influencing boot behaviour with GRUB

• 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

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

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

• 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

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

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

• Restore ufs file systems
• Explain disaster recovery fundamentals

• Create a UFS snapshot
• Back up the snapshot file
• Review and Study Time
• Exam CX-310-200

• Control and monitor network interfaces
• Configure Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) interfaces at boot time

• Describe client-server processes
• Start server processes

• Describe signed packages and patches
• Introduce Sun Connection
• Describe Sun Connection Modes
• Using Update Manager
• Installing updates with Update Manager
• Administering patches from the command line

• Describe virtual memory
• Configure swap space

• Manage crash dump behaviour
• Manage core file behaviour

• Describe the benefits of NFS
• Describe the fundamentals of the NFS distributed file system
• Manage an NFS server
• Manage an NFS client
• Enable the NFS server logging
• Troubleshoot NFS errors

• Describe the fundamentals of the AutoFS file system
• Use automount maps

• Describe RAID
• Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts

• Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts
• Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
• Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for the root (/) file system

• Describe RBAC fundamentals
• Describe component interaction within RBAC
• Manage RBAC by using the command line

• Describe the fundamentals of the syslog function
• Configure the /etc/syslog.conf file
• Configure syslog messaging

• Describe the name service concept
• Describe the name service switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf
• Describe the name service cache daemon (nscd)
• Get name service information

• Configure a DNS client
• Configure an LDAP client

• Describe NIS fundamentals
• Configure the name service switch file
• Describe NIS security
• Configure an NIS domain
• Build custom NIS maps
• Troubleshoot NIS

• Identify the different zones features
• Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
• Configure zones
• Install zones
• Boot zones

• Describe ZFS and its related terms
• Understand components of a storage pool
• Create and destroy storage pools
• Query storage pool status
• Create and destroy ZFS file systems
• Manage ZFS properties
• Mount and unmount ZFS file systems
• Work with snapshots and clones
• Use ZFS datasets with Solaris zones
• Review and Study Time
• Exam CX-310-202