The System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 1 course gets you further engaged with the most efficient, secure, and reliable operating system ever build. This course give you direct experience with the most essential system administration tasks in the Solaris 10 OS. You will be instructed in crucial system management skills including: managing local disk devices, managing UFS and ZFS file systems, installing and removing Solaris packages and patches, performing system boot procedures. The course also covers user administration and managing systems processes. This course is the first of a two-part series that helps you to prepare for Part I of the Sun Certified System Administration for Solaris OS examination. Lab Information: The hands-on labs offered in this course will involve accessing equipment that resides at a centralized lab location.

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Students who can benefit from this course include system administrators who are preparing to perform essential system administration procedures in the Solaris OS.

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Perform basic UNIX tasks
• Understand basic UNIX commands
• Use the vi text editor
• Interact with a windowing system

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

• Manage file systems
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform user administration
• Manage system processes

Module 1 - Introducing the Solaris 10 OS 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

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

• Identify disk-based, distributed, and pseudo file systems in the Solaris OS
• Describe Solaris OS ufs file systems
• Create a new ufs file system
• Check the file system using the fsck command
• Resolve file system inconsistencies
• Monitor file system use

• Describe the Solaris ZFS file system
• Create new ZFS file system properties
• Modify ZFS file system properties
• Destroy ZFS pools and file systems
• Work with ZFS snapshots and clones
• Use ZFS datasets with Solaris Zones

• Identify mounting basics
• Perform mounts
• Perform unmounts
• Mount and unmount ZFS file systems
• 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)

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

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

• 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 nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters from the shell
• Interrupt an unresponsive system

• Discuss the purpose of the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB)
• Describe GRUB terminology and basic functions
• Modify x86 system boot behavior in the Solaris OS
• Use the eeprom command
• Use the kernel command
• Describe and manage GRUB boot archives
• Boot a system in the GRUB-based boot environment
• Interrupt an unresponsive system

• Identify the phases of the boot process
• Identify run level fundamentals
• Control boot processes
• Perform system shutdown procedures

• Describe the Service Management Facility (SMF) features
• Compare run levels and SMF milestones
• Use SMF administrative commands
• View and modify SMF parameters

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

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

• Identify hardware requirements for Solaris 10 OS installation
• Identify the fundamentals of the Solaris 10 OS installations
• Identify the Solaris 10 OS software components
• Define guidelines to install the Solaris 10 OS from a DVD
• Describe the Secure by Default installation enhancement