Your Solaris Certification Resource Site

We've compiled a list of resources you may be interested in. 
Check out some of these UNIX related links:

Recent Articles that Bill Calkins has written:

• Addressing Solaris 10 x86 Certification Exam questions
• Addressing exam questions that you may see regarding the “snoop” command
• Solaris 10 Zones Described

UNIX Certification
Click here for resources you can use to prepare for the Sun Solaris Administrator Certification exams.
This page contains questions and comments regarding the book.  Updates to the exam and text are also found here.

Details of the Sun Certified System Administrator Program for Solaris  10, 9, and 8

SUN Certified Security Administrator for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Exam CX-310-301)

BigAdmin - Sun’s one-stop website for System Administrators

Solaris FAQs - A ton of Solaris related FAQ’s

docs.sun.com - Sun documentation

docs.hp.com - HP-UX documentation

ONLINE Practice Labs and System Access
It’s a well-known fact, that those who get hands on practice on a Solaris system have a much greater chance of passing the exams. We’ve put together some great practice labs for you. Do you need a Solaris system to practice on? You can access our network of Sun Ultras via the internet to practice on. Email us for details.

Misc Solaris Information
Pyramid Consulting - UNIX consulting and contract system administration

Compare the various Solaris releases on this Solaris family comparison chart

Using Device Path Names to Identify System Devices

Sunhelp.org - Sun related news and info

SolarisCentral.org - news articles, tips and software for Solaris

Computing Dictionary - Great online dictionary for computer jargon.

Computing Encyclopedia

Great info on Solaris Performance Tuning.

The History of Solaris (PDF)

Solaris on Intel (x86 Solaris):

Good informational site if you’re running Solaris on Intel.

Solaris x86 Video Driver - get the Solaris XFree86 Video Driver if you’re having trouble configuring your Intel video card (video device) with the x86 version of Solaris

Solaris on Intel Issues, Faqs, Drivers (Solaris x86)

Solaris (x86 Version) on Laptops

Solaris (x86 version) Drivers, Faqs, etc.

Software:
sunfreeware.com - get SUDO, samba, gzip  and other public domain freeware here.

Get Solaris Patches Here

Go here to get a copy of Solaris from Sun. Download for free or order the media for $75 S&H

Sun Download Center

Download GNOME 2.0 Desktop for Solaris

Download PatchPro

Download WebNFS for Solaris

GNU Website

Performance Monitoring Tools:

SEToolkit - Free performance monitoring tool for Solaris systems. A must have for Sys Admins.

Big Brother - A free performance monitoring tool for Unix systems. View your network at any time from any browser.

Newsgroups that I subscribe to:
comp.unix.solaris
comp.unix.admin
comp.sources.sun
comp.sys.hp.hpux
comp.sys.sun.admin
comp.sys.sun.announce
comp.sys.sun.apps
comp.sys.sun.wanted
comp.sys.sun.hardware
comp.sys.hp.hardware
comp.sys.sun.misc
comp.sys.sequent
alt.sys.sun
alt.solaris.x86

Search for other Solaris related newsgroups at http://groups.google.com/

Other Certification Sites:

Read about the Sage certification program

HP certification FAQ-

IBM’s AIX Certification

EMC Certification Info

Online Magazines and Journals:

Unix Insider

Unix World

Sys Admin magazine

If any of these links are no longer available or have changed, please email me so I can fix the link.