Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 OS, Part I (CX-310-200)

Solaris 10 OS Directory Hierarchy
- Root subdirectories
- file types, Use hard links

Managing Local Disk Devices
- Architecture of a disk
- The naming conventions for devices
- List devices, Reconfigure devices
- Perform hard disk partitioning, Manage disk labels
- Solaris Management Console
- Partition a disk by using the Solaris Management Console

Managing Solaris OS File Systems
- Solaris OS file systems
- Create a new ufs file system
- Check the file system using the fsck command
- Resolve file system inconsistencies
- Monitor file system use

Performing Mounts and Unmounts
- Identify mounting basics
- Perform mounts, Perform unmounts
- Access a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
- Restrict access to a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
- Access a diskette or CD-ROM without Volume Management (vold)

Installation Requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
- DVD installation
- Solaris 10 OS installation and upgrade options
- Hardware requirements for Solaris OS installation

Package Administration
- Fundamentals of package administration
- Administer packages using the command-line interface

Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 10 OS
- Fundamentals of patch administration
- Install and remove patches and patch clusters

Executing Boot PROM Commands
- Identify boot programmable read-only memory (PROM) fundamentals
- Use basic boot PROM commands
- Identify the system's boot device, custom device aliases

GRUB
- Influencing boot behavior with GRUB

Performing Boot and Shutdown Procedures
- features of the Service Management Facility
- Identify run level fundamentals
- Compare run levels and SMF milestones
- Identify the phases of the boot process
- Use SMF administrative commands
- Control boot processes
- Perform system shutdown procedures

Performing User Administration
- User administration fundamentals
- Manage user accounts, Manage initialization files

Introducing System Security
- Monitor system access, Switch users on a system
- Control system access, Restrict access to data in files

Configuring and Using Printer Services
- Network printing fundamentals
- Configure printer services, Administer printer services
- Start and stop the line printer (LP) print service
- Specify a destination printer

Controlling System Processes
- System processes, Kill frozen processes

Performing File System Backups
- Identify the fundamentals of backups
- Back up an unmounted file system

Performing File System Restores
- Restore ufs file systems, disaster recovery fundamentals

Backing Up a Mounted File System With a UFS Snapshot
- Create a UFS snapshot, Back up the snapshot file

Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 OS, Part II (CX-310-202)

Interface Configuration
- Control and monitor network interfaces
- Configure Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) interfaces at boot time

Client-Server Model
- Client-server processes, Start server processes

Update Manager
- Installing updates with Update Manager
- Administering patches from the command line

Managing Swap Configuration
- Describe virtual memory, Configure swap space

Managing Crash Dumps and Core Files
- Manage crash dump behaviour, core file behaviour

Configuring NFS
- Benefits of NFS
- NFS distributed file system
- Manage an NFS server, NFS client, NFS server logging
- Manage NFS with the Solaris Management Console storage folder tools
- Troubleshoot NFS errors

Configuring AutoFS
- AutoFS file system, automount maps

RAID and the Solaris Volume Manager Software
- Describe RAID, Solaris Volume Manager software concepts

Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software
- Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts
- Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
- Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for the root (/) file system

Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- RBAC fundamentals
- Manage RBAC by using the Solaris Management Console
- Manage RBAC by using the command line

Configuring System Messaging
- Describe the fundamentals of the syslog function
- Configure the /etc/syslog.conf file
- Configure syslog messaging
- Use the Solaris Management Console log viewer

Using Name Services
- Name service concept, name service switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf
- Name service cache daemon (nscd)

Configuring Name Service Clients
- DNS client

Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)
- NIS fundamentals
- Configure the name service switch file, NIS security
- Configure an NIS domain, Build custom NIS maps
- Troubleshoot NIS

Zones
- Identify the different zones features
- Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
- Configure zones, Install zones, Boot zones

ZFS File System
- ZFS and its related terms
- Create and destroy storage pools
- Query storage pool status
- Create and destroy ZFS file systems
- Manage ZFS properties
- Mount and unmount ZFS file systems
- Work with snapshots and clones
- Use ZFS datasets with Solaris zones

Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 10 OS (CX-310-302)

TCP/IP Model
- Network model fundamentals
- Transmission Control Protocol/IP (TCP/IP) model
- Peer-to-peer communication and related protocols, TCP/IP protocols

LANs and Their Components
- Network topologies, LAN media, Network devices

Ethernet Interfaces
- Ethernet concepts, Ethernet frames, Use network utilities

ARP and RARP
- Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Reverse ARP (RARP)

Configuring IP
- Internet layer protocols, IP datagram
- IP address types, subnetting and variable length subnet masks (VLSMs)
- The interface configuration files, Administer logical interfaces

Configuring IP Network Multipathing
- IP multipathing, Implement IP multipathing

Configuring Routing
- Identify the fundamentals of routing
- Routing table population
- Routing protocol types
- The routing table
- Configure static routing
- Configure dynamic routing
- Describe classless inter-domain routing (CIDR)
- Configure routing at system boot

Configuring IPv6
- Describe IPv6 addressing, IPv6 autoconfiguration
- IPv6 unicast address types, IPv6 multicast address types
- Enable IPv6, Manage IPv6
- Configure IPv6 multipathing

Transport Layer
- Transport layer fundamentals
- User Datagram Protocol (UDP), TCP
- TCP flow control

Configuring DNS
- DNS basics, Configure the DNS server
- Troubleshoot the DNS server using basic utilities

Configuring DHCP
- The fundamentals of DHCP
- Configure a DHCP server
- Configure and manage DHCP clients
- Troubleshoot a DHCP server
- Troubleshoot a DHCP client

Configuring NTP
- Configure an NTP server, NTP client

Configuring the Solaris IP Filter Firewall
- Solaris IP Filter firewall basics, Configure Solaris IP Filter firewall