|
Read Chapter 1 – Managing File Systems
This chapter will cover Sun’s exam objective #2 – Manage File Systems. These are the objectives that you need to study:
- Explain disk architecture including the UFS file system capabilities and naming conventions for devices for SPARC, x64, and x86-based systems.
- Use the prtconf and format commands to list devices, explain critical issues of the /etc/path_to_inst file and reconfigure devices by performing a reconfiguration boot or using
the devfsadm command for SPARC, x64, and x86-based systems.
- Given a scenario, partition a disk correctly using the appropriate files, commands, and options, and manage disk labels using SMI and EFI labels as they relate to disk sets.
- Explain the Solaris 10 OS file system, including disk-based, distributed, devfs, and memory file systems related to SMF, and create a new UFS file system using options for
<1Tbyte and > 1Tbyte file systems.
- Perform Solaris 10 OS package administration using command-line interface commands and manage software patches for the Solaris OS, including preparing for patch administration,
and installing and removing patches using the patchadd and patchrm commands.
Read Chapter 2 – Installing the Solaris 10 Operating Environment
This chapter will cover Sun’s exam objective #1 – Install Software. These are the objectives that you need to study:
- 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, and x86- based systems.
Read Chapter 3 – Perform System Boot and Shutdown Procedures
This chapter will cover Sun’s exam objective #3 – Perform System Boot and Shutdown Procedures for SPARC, x64, and x86-based systems. These are the objectives that you need to study in that chapter:
- Given a scenario, explain the BIOS settings for booting, abort sequence, and displaying POST, including BIOS configuration for x64 and x86-based system.
- Use the Xorg configuration files or kdmconfig utility to configure the keyboard, display, and mouse devices for an x64 and x86 based system.
- Perform system boot and shutdown procedures, including identifying the system's boot device, creating and removing custom device aliases, viewing and changing NVRAM parameters,
and interrupting an unresponsive system.
- Explain the Service Management Facility and the phases of the boot process.
- Use SMF or legacy commands and scripts to control both the boot and shutdown procedures.
Read Chapter 4 – User and Security Administration
This chapter will cover Sun’s exam objective #4 – Perform User and Security Administration. These are the objectives that you need to study in that chapter:
- Monitor system access by using appropriate commands.
- Perform system security by switching users on a system, and by becoming root and monitoring su attempts.
- Control system security through restricting ftp access and using /etc/hosts.equiv and $HOME/ .rhosts files, and SSH fundamentals.
- Restrict access to data in files through the use of group membership, ownership, and special file permissions.
Read Chapter 11: Controlling Access and Configuring System Messaging
This chapter will cover Sun’s exam objective #5 – Control Access and Configure System Messaging. These are the objectives that you need to study in that
chapter:
- Configure role-based access control (RBAC) including assigning rights profiles, roles, and authorizations to users.
- Analyze RBAC configuration file summaries and manage RBAC using the command line.
- Explain syslog function fundamentals, and configure and manage the /etc/syslog.conf file and syslog messaging.
Read Chapter 13 – Solaris Zones & chapter 14 – Advanced Installation Procedures
These chapters will cover Sun’s exam objective #6 – Perform Advanced Installation Procedures for SPARC and x86 based systems. These are the objectives that you need to study in those chapters:
Chapter 13
- Explain consolidation issues, features of Solaris zones, and decipher between the different zone concepts including zone types, daemons, networking, command scope, and given a
scenario, create a Solaris zone.
- Given a zone configuration scenario, identify zone components and zonecfg resource parameters, allocate file system space, use the zonecfg command, describe the interactive
configuration of a zone, and view the zone configuration file.
- Given a scenario, use the zoneadm command to view, install, boot, halt, reboot, and delete a zone.
Chapter 14
- Given a PXE installation scenario, identify requirements and install methods, configure both the install and DHCP server, and boot the x86 client.
|
