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Solaris 10 System Administration Fast Track Training Course
Updated for Solaris 10 Release 10/08

Length: 6 Days  (12 hrs per day)                 

Prerequisite: Solaris Fundamentals Course

Recommendation Statement:
The student must have a minimum of six months UNIX system administration experience, completed a UNIX Fundamentals course, and a strong desire to learn Solaris OS administration in an accelerated, intense environment.
This course is also recommended for system administrators migrating from HP’s HP-UX or IBM’s AIX .

Course Description: 
This course teaches intermediate and advanced topics in Solaris system administration by combining both the Solaris 10 Intermediate and Advanced System Administration courses. The operating system will be Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10 Release 10/08)- Sun's implementation of SystemV release 4. The course is taught on Sun SPARC servers and x86-based systems.

   This course meets all of the objectives for the Certified Solaris 10 System Administrator Examination – Part 1 & 2 .

         Note: This course is also available for Solaris 9

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Perform system boot and shutdown procedures on SPARC and x86-based systems
• Administer the Service Management Facility (SMF)
• Manage Solaris file systems
• Install the Solaris 10 Operating environment on SPARC and x86-based systems
• Create and administer user accounts
• Understand security issues and perform security administration
• Manage system processes
• Manage printers and print queues
• Perform system backups and restorations
• Describe network basics
• Describe remote administration with the Solaris Management Console software
• Manage virtual file systems and core dumps
• Manage storage volumes (SVM)
• Control access and configure system messaging
• Configure role-based access control (RBAC)
• Set up name services
• Perform advanced installation procedures (Flash archive, JumpStartt and WAN boot)
• Install the OS on a mirrored ZFS root pool
• Perform a Solaris Live Upgrade
• Perform a Solaris Flash installation
• Understand differences between SPARC and x86-based Solaris Operating environments.
• Understand and administer zones.
• Understand and administer ZFS file systems
• Migrate a UFS root file system to a ZFS root pool
• Introduction to DTraceInstall updates using Sun Connection Manager