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Sun Certified System Administrator – SCSA

Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)

This certification is for system administrators tasked with performing essential system administration procedures on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and technical application support staff responsible for administering a networked server running on the Solaris OS.

Certifications for the Solaris 10 OS are available, consisting of two exams. Candidates must pass both part I and part II exams of the same Solaris OS version in order to obtain certification.

If you are already certified as a system administrator for a previous version of the Solaris Operating System, you can take the upgrade exam to upgrade to the latest version of Solaris.

System Administration for the Solaris 10 OS Part 1
CX-310-200

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 built. This course gives 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 and system 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.

Prerequisites:

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

  • Solaris 10 Operating System Essentials (SA-100-S10)

Course Objectives:

  • Manage file systems and local disk drives
  • Perform system boot procedures
  • Perform mounts and unmounts
  • Control system processes
  • Perform user administration
  • Use the Service Management Facility
  • Perform package administration
  • Manage software patches

Course Outline
Introducing the Solaris 10 OS Directory Hierarchy

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

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

Describing Interface Configurations

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

Managing Solaris OS UFS File Systems

  • 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

Introduction to the ZFS File System

  • 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

Performing Mounts and Unmounts

  • Identify mounting basics
  • Perform mounts and 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)

Performing Solaris 10 OS Package Administration

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

Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 10 OS

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

Executing Boot PROM Commands

  • 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

Using the Grand Unified Bootloader

  • 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

Performing Legacy Boot and Shutdown Procedures

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

Using the Service Management Facility

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

Performing User Administration

  • Manage user accounts
  • Manage initialization files

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

Solaris 10 Operating System Installation Requirements

  • Identify Solaris 10 Operating System installation methods, requirements, and options
  • Describe Secure by Default installation concepts

Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 OS, Part II
CX-310-202

Overview

System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 2 course expands your mastery of the most advanced operating system on the planet: Solaris 10. This course provides students with hands-on experience working with more complex and integrated administration concepts, and builds upon the Part 1 course. Students will be instructed in essential system administration skills including: configuring network interfaces, managing swap configurations, crash dumps, and core files. The course also covers configuring NFS and AutoFS as well as system messaging, managing storage volumes and ZFS file systems, and setting up naming services and managing Solaris Zones. This course helps you to prepare for Part II of the Sun System Administration certification exam.

Prerequisites

  • Manage files and directories
  • Control the user work environment
  • Archive files
  • Use remote commands
  • System Administration for the Solaris 10 OS Part 1 (SA-200-S10)

Course Objectives

  • Managing Swap Configuration
  • Managing Crash Dumps and Core Files
  • Configuring NFS
  • Configuring AutoFS
  • Describing RAID
  • Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software
  • Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Configuring System Messaging
  • Using Name Services
  • Configuring Name Service Clients
  • Introduction to Zones
  • Introduction to LDAP
  • Configuring JumpStart Installation and Live Upgrade Using the Solaris 10 OS

Course Outline
Managing Swap Configuration

  • Configure swap space

Managing Crash Dumps and Core Files

  • Manage crash dump behavior
  • Manage core file behavior

Configuring NFS

  • 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
  • Manage NFS with the Solaris Management Console storage folder tools
  • Troubleshoot NFS errors

Configuring AutoFS

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

Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software

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

Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

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

Configuring System Messaging

  • Describe the fundamentals of the syslog function
  • Configure the /etc/syslog.conf file
  • Configure syslog messaging
  • Use the Solaris Management Console log viewer

Using Name Services

  • 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

Configuring Name Service Clients

  • Configure a DNS client
  • Configure an LDAP client

Introduction to Zones

  • Identify the different zones features
  • Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
  • Insall, configure, and boot zones
  • Move, migrate, and delete a zone
  • Administer packages with zones
  • Upgrade the Solaris 10 OS with installed zones
  • Use 1x Branded Zones

Introduction to LDAP

  • Understand the use of LDAP as a naming service
  • Describe basic LDAP concepts and terminology
  • Identify the Directory Server Enterprise Edition requirements
  • Identify Solaris LDAP Client requirements

Configuring JumpStart Installation Using the Solaris 10 Operating System

  • Describe the JumpStart configurations
  • Implement a basic JumpStart server for SPARC® and x86/x64 clients
  • Describe booting x86/x64 systems using the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
  • Set up a DHCP server to support x86/x64 JumpStart clients
  • Set up JumpStart software configuration alternatives
  • Set up JumpStart to create a ZFS mirrored root pool
  • Troubleshoot JumpStart configurations

Performing Live Upgrade Using the Solaris 10 Operating System

  • Describe the benefits of using Live Upgrade
  • Describe the Solaris Live Upgrade requirements, commands, and process
  • Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
  • Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
  • Modify the state of the new boot environment
  • Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive
  • Use Live Upgrade to patch a system
  • Using JumpStart to implement a Live Upgrade environment