Course Description:
Solaris Certified System Administrator (SCSA) This certification is for system administrators tasked with performing essential system administration procedures on the Solaris Operating Environment and technical application support staff responsible for administering a networked server running on the Solaris Operating Environment.

Exams:
# 310-011: Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 Operating Environment
# 310-012: Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 Operating Environment

Subjects:
# System Concepts, The Boot Prom, Installation, Initialization and Shutdown
# User Administration, Security, Process Control
# File Systems, Files & Directories, Disk Configuration
# Format, Backup & Recovery
# Basic Command Syntax, Editor
# Remote Connection
# Client/Server Relationship, Solaris Network Environment, Solaris SYSLOG
# Disk Management, NFS, AutoFS, CacheFS
# Naming Services, NIS, RBAC
# Solaris Management Console
# JumpStart Automatic Installation

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Unix Overview * History * Evolution * Design Philosophy * Overview * Operating System Structure Text Editing with vi * Understanding vi * vi modes * Entering and exiting vi * Navigating vi * Entering and editing text * Advanced search commands * Saving files Getting Started * Logging in and out * Passwords * passwd * Basic Command syntax * Basic commands: man, wc, date, echo

 

Features and Functions of the UNIX Shells: sh, ksh, bash
* Introduction
* Various UNIX shells: Bourne, Korn, C, Bash
* Login and startup
* Customizing the user environment
* Command history
* Aliases
* Startup files
* Variables
* PATH
* TERM

File System
* Introduction to the UNIX file system
* File and directory naming conventions
* ls command
* wildcards
* File types
* Inodes
* Hard links
* Soft links
* File system hierarchy
* Relative vs. absolute paths
* Short cuts
* cd

Redirection and Process Control
* Standard input and output
* Redirecting input and output
* Using pipes
* The tee command
* Multitasking
* Background processes
* PIDs

Working with Files and Directories
* File oriented commands
* Creating empty files
* Moving and renaming files: mv command
* Copying and removing files: cp and rm commands
* Modifying the directory hierarchy
* Creating and removing directories

Advanced UNIX Power Tools
* Power text editing: cut, paste and sort
* Networking commands: telnet and ftp
* Backing up with tar.

File Security
* Understanding files permissions
* Reading permissions
* umask settigns
* Changing permissions
* Changing owner
* Changing group
* Symbolic vs. numeric notation

Shell Scripting
* Shell script features and capabilities
* How to create and run a script
* Understanding command line arguments
* Making scripts interactive

File Manipulation and Searching Techniques
* Using find for advanced searches
* Concatenating files
* Using more, head and tail
* File pattern matching with grep
* Using quotes

Common Desktop Environment
* Introduction
* Style Manager
* File Manager
* Application Manager
* Calendar
* Help