Sun Microsystems had released a version of Unix Operating system called as “Solaris” with many more features and improvements. It is more reliable and secure, never allows any intruder to pass through or spy, it is still one of the best Operating system with high security.
To master the Solaris you have to understand the principles or philosophy behind its design. It is one of the most popular UNIX flavours largely being used by corporate today.
You have to do two exams and the upgrade to get the Sun Certified System Administrator certificate (SCSA). The upgrade gives you an additional certificate, that of Sun Certified Network Administrator (SCNA).
1. Exam:(CX-310-200) Part I - Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
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2. Manage File Systems |
Install Software
• Installation of Sun-Solaris on SPARC and INTEL based systems
• Installation on standalone systems
• Network installation
Perform System Boot and Shutdown Procedures for SPARC, x64, and x86-based systems
• Understanding booting process on SPARC & Intel
• Understanding commands under OK prompt
• Understanding different types run levels, R-C scripts.
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• Introduction to file system
• Understanding different types of file systems
• Mounting and unmouting file systems
• Creating disk quotas for users
• Understanding vfstab and mnttab files
• Inconsistency checking using fsck
• Troubleshooting file systems with fsck |
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4. Manage Network Printers and System Processes |
• Understanding types of groups
• Creating, modifying, deleting users and groups
• Administration of initialization files and customization
• Monitoring the users
• Understanding password aging
• Advance file permissions using ACL
• System security
• troubleshooting |
• Configuring local, remote, network printers
• Understanding stand alone and transient daemons
• Troubleshooting
Perform System Backups and Restores
• Understanding types of backups
• Understanding backup levels and backup strategies
• Performing local / remote backup restores |
| 5. Exam:(CX-310-202) Part II - Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) |
6. Manage Storage Volumes |
Describe Network Basics
• Controlling and monitoring network interfaces including MAC addresses, IP addresses, network packets, and configuring the IPv4 interfaces at boot time.
• Understanding the client-server model and enabling /disabling server processes
Manage Virtual File Systems and Core Dumps
• Understanding and configuring NFS server and clients
• virtual memory concepts, configuring, and managing swap space
• Configuring automount with direct and indirect mapping
• Managing crash dumps and core file behaviors |
• Understanding and configuring RAID levels (0,1,5) and SVM concepts (logical volumes, soft partitions, state databases, hot spares, and hot spare pools)
Control Access and Configure System Messaging
• Configuring role-based access control (RBAC) including assigning rights profiles, roles, and authorizations to users.
• Managing syslog messages
• Exploring different facilities and error messages |
| 7. Naming Services |
8. Perform Advanced Installation Procedures for SPARC and x86 based systems |
• Naming services overview
• understanding naming services (DNS, NIS, NIS+, and LDAP) and the naming service switch file (database sources, status codes, and actions)
• Understanding Network Information Service (NIS)
• Configuring NIS master, NIS slave and NIS clients
• Understanding difference between NIS and NIS+
• Configuring NIS+ primary root server and client |
• Custom jumpstart installations
• Webstart installations |
| 9. Exam:(CX-310-302) Sun Certified Network Administrator (SCNA) |
10. Configure the Network (Internet and Transport layers) |
Configure the Network Interface Layer
• Understanding network model fundamentals, layers of the TCP/IP model and peer-to-peer communication.
• Understanding network topologies, LAN media and network devices
• Understanding Ethernet concepts
• Using network utilities like snoop, netstat, and ndd to configure and troubleshoot network interfaces.
• Examining and managing ARP and RARP, including the ARP table, in.rarpd and the hosts and ethers databases. |
• Understanding Internet layer protocols, IP datagrams, IP address types.
• configuring netmasks for subnetting and VLSM
• Distinguishing between direct routes, indirect routes, route table populations, understanding routing protocols, and routing tables
• Understanding the IPv6 addressing to include IPv6 autoconfiguration, unicast, and multicast address types.
• Configuring and troubleshooting IPv6 non-routers, routers, and IPv6 6to4 routers.
• Understanding the types of protocols found in the Transport layer and examining TCP flow control. |
| 11. Configure and Manage Network Applications (Application layer) |
12. Configure Solaris IP Filter |
• Understanding DNS service and different types of DNS servers
• Configuring DNS (master, slave) servers.
• Understanding and configuring DHCP server and clients
• Configuring NTP server and NTP clients
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• Configuring the behavior of Solaris IP Filter using packet direction, and using rule processing.
• Configuring and modifying filtering on an IP address, network interface, protocol type, and port.
• Configuring logging in Solaris IP Filter, passed packets, blocked packets, and rule match and analyze logged information and statistics.
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