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Solaris 10 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 10 Intermediate and Advanced System Administration courses. The operating system will be Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10)- 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 10 System Administrator Examination – Part 1 & 2 .

         Note: This course is also available for Solaris 9

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

• Understand boot protocols and options and modify EEPROM boot parameters
• Understand the OpenBoot (Boot PROM) environment
• Understanding and administering the Service Management Facility (SMF)
• Start up, change run levels, and shut down a system (shutdown, init, halt, reboot).
• Understanding and controlling processes
• Use data access control to enhance file security (chmod).
• Set file permissions using ACLs (access control lists)
• Use maintenance commands to simplify system administration (find, cron, at).
• Customizing the user environment (local and global)
• Configure and manage print services
• Understand the Solaris 10 device naming conventions
• Manage, monitor, and mount file systems
• Identify partitions and monitor disk space usage.
• Setup and verify partitions on disks using the format utility.
• Install the Solaris Operating Environment on a standalone system
• Perform Solaris 10 Package Administration. 
• Install and verify OS update patches
• Perform backup and restore procedures (ufsdump,ufsrestore, tar, cpio, pax).
• Creating a UFS snapshot / Backing up the snapshot file
• Understand differences between the x86 and SPARC-based Solaris operating environments
• 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 system installation procedures
• Understand differences between the x86-based and SPARC-based Solaris Operating environments.
• Administer Zones

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