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Here’s What Sun’s Solaris Certification Program Manager says about Bill (and the book):
“Some study guide authors never try to contact Sun Certification to validate their work, while some take all the opportunities they have to do so. Mr. Calkins is in the second
group. I was not surprised when he elected to take 12 hours worth of Solaris 9 beta exams, provide poignant feedback on hundreds of questions and write a Solaris 9 Certification study guide. And I am not surprised now that he
has chosen to share his Solaris professional experience in this new Solaris 10 System Administration study guide. “
“Mr. Calkins is a natural pedagogue, capable of dissecting complex concepts into
comprehensible segments, and thus promoting meaningful learning. Throughout the writing process, he has consistently looked to Sun Certification for the most precise information, not only in terms of exam content, but also for
exam registration and test development specifics. He is above all, passionate about promoting the intertwined values that students need to acquire job role experience, learn the material, use the equipment, administer systems,
then proceed to Solaris certification. “
“This certification study guide is effective, focused and fosters a clear awareness of Solaris 10 as a truly innovative Operating System and one of Sun’s most
major releases yet. The chapter topics are well presented, and supported with an in-depth review of the actual test objectives. It is with great pleasure that Sun recommends this study guide to all future Solaris 10
Certification students. Thank you Bill for this tremendous contribution to the Solaris certification and training community! “
Yvonne Prefontaine
Solaris Certification Program Manager
Sun Microsystems
Here’s What Sun’s Solaris Ambassador says about the Book:
$500 million worth of R&D went into the creation of Solaris 10. And that work has produced a lot of new features;
• Solaris Service Manager for control of processes and dependencies
• Solaris Fault Manager for hardware failure detection and mitigation
• DTrace for process observability using over 40,000 probe points
• Zones for creating virtualized, isolated Solaris environments
• BART, secure execution, jumpstart flash, I/O performance, and on, and on...
All entirely new for Solaris 10.
Interest in Solaris 10 has been phenomenal with 3 million registered licenses in the first
nine months of release. That's more licenses than any other UNIX version has ever shipped over a 4 year period! And that creates a lot of opportunity for knowledgeable Solaris 10 Systems Administrators.
This is the third book I've had the chance to preview for Mr. Calkins. It's purpose is to prepare you for Solaris 10 Certification but it also provides a source of training that is not easy to get approval for,
anymore.
Chapter 13 does a good job of Zone education. What they are, what they provide, where you might use them, and how to create and manage them. Zones can be a huge asset to help you consolidate your
datacenter. And YOU are the person at the controls.
Mr. Calkins is a big fan of learning through doing, so each chapter is full of useful information that you can actually sit down with at a workstation and
try. With command-line examples throughout every section, it's a good Solaris 10 resource even if you don't plan to take the exam.
Although I should know everything on the exam, I still plan to use this book
as a study guide to prepare. And I recommend it to everyone planning to move to Solaris 10.
Brian Howard
Solaris Ambassador
14 years of engineering at Sun Microsystems
I am an employee of Sun Microsystems and used this book as a primary study guide. It not only exceeded my expectations but it also contained everything I needed to take the 310-203
upgrade exam. I found it to be as good or better then the internal Sun training materials and helped me pass the test the first time around. - Thanks again Bill
M. Baxter - Sun Microsystems Inc. Systems Support Engineer
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