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Solaris 9 System Administration Fast Track Training Course

Length: 5 Days  (12 hrs per day)                 

Prerequisite: Solaris Fundamentals Course

Recommendation Statement:
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 9 Intermediate and Advanced System Administration courses. The operating system will be Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9)- Sun's implementation of SystemV release4. The course is taught on a Sun Ultra system.

   This course meets all of the objectives for the Certified Solaris 9 System Administrator Examination – Part 2 (310-015).

         Note: This course is also available for Solaris 8, 7, and Solaris 2.6

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Manage file systems
• Install software
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform user and security administration
• Manage network printers and system processes
• Perform system backups and restores
• Manage, list, and format local disk devices
• Mount and unmount different types of file systems
• Perform package and patch administration
• Use boot programmable read-only memory (PROM) commands and change nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters
• Describe network basics
• Describe remote administration with the Solaris Management Console software
• Manage virtual file systems and core dumps
• Manage storage volumes
• Control access and configure system messaging
• Configure role-based access control (RBAC)
• Set up name services
• Perform advanced installation procedures
• Configure the custom JumpStart procedure
• Perform a Flash installation