UWIN Pro's Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 10 Exam II course provides students with the skills necessary to administer Sun systems running Solaris 10 in a network environment. Learners will gain the knowledge necessary to maintain Sun systems, configure and troubleshoot the Network File System (NFS), ZFS file systems, Zones and configure the Network Information Service (NIS) environment.

Objective

This course prepares students for the Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 10 certification exam SA-202-S10.

Audience

Prior to enrolling in Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 10 Exam II, learners should have experience in installing the Solaris Operating Environment on a stand-alone system including update patches, understanding and performing booting and shutdown procedures and options, logging into a UNIX system and changing passwords, adding users, and setting up file permissions, making directories, setting up partitions, and managing files, and using the Solaris device naming conventions to configure and name devices.

Minimum Prerequisites

Learners should have successfully completed Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 10 Exam I prior to enrolling in Sun Certified Administrator for Solaris 10 Exam II.

Included Labs

• Determining TCP/IP Information
• Using ARP to Map IP Address to MAC Addresses
• Working with the Network Interface
• Adding syslog Functionality Using logger
• Creating and Manipulating a File System
• Adjusting Swap Space
• Creating/configuring/deleting zones
• ZFS file system creation
• Using Solaris Volume Management. Building RAIDS
• Setting Up the Domain Name for a NIS Server
• Adding a Customized Toolbox to the Solaris Management Console (SMC)
• Creating an Install Server for Jumpstart
• Creating and managing zones

What will you learn?

Sun Microsystems Solaris 10: System Administration II

Day 1

Module 1: Describing Interface Configuration

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

Module 2: Describing the Client-Server Model

• Describe client-server processes
• Start server processes

Day 2

Module 3: Introducing Sun Connection Services

• Describe signed packages and patches
• Introduce Sun Connection
• Describe Sun Connection modes
• Using Update Manager
• Installing updates with Update Manager
• Administering patches from the command line

Module 4: Managing Swap Configuration

• Describe virtual memory
• Configure swap space

Module 5: Managing Crash Dumps and Core Files

• Manage crash dump behaviour
• Manage core file behaviour

Day 3

Module 6: Configuring NFS

• Describe the benefits of NFS
• Describe the fundamentals of the NFS distributed file system
• Manage an NFS server
• Manage an NFS client
• Enable the NFS server logging
• Manage NFS with the Solaris Management Console storage folder tools
• Troubleshoot NFS errors

Module 7: Configuring AutoFS

• Describe the fundamentals of the AutoFS file system
• Use automount maps

Day 4

Module 8: Describing RAID and the Solaris Volume Manager Software

• Describe RAID
• Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts

Module 9: 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

Day 5

Module 10: Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Describe RBAC fundamentals
• Describe component interaction within RBAC
• Manage RBAC by using the Solaris Management Console
• Manage RBAC by using the command line

Day 6

Module 11: 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

Day 7

Module 12: Using Name Services

• Describe the name service concept
• Describe the name service switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf
• Describe the name service cache daemon (nscd)
• Get name service information

Module 13: Configuring Name Service Clients

• Configure a DNS client
• Configure an LDAP client

Day 8

Module 14: Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)

• Describe NIS fundamentals
• Configure the name service switch file
• Describe NIS security
• Configure an NIS domain
• Build custom NIS maps
• Troubleshoot NIS

Day 9

Module 15: Introduction to Zones

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

Module 16a: Introduction to the ZFS File System

• Identify the fundamentals of backups
• Back up an unmounted file system

Module 16: Performing File System Restores

• Describe ZFS and its related terms
• Understand components of a storage pool
• Create and destroy storage pools
• Query storage pool status
• Create and destroy ZFS file systems

Module 16b: ZFS File System

• Manage ZFS properties
• Mount and umount ZFS file systems
• Work with snapshots and clones
• Use ZFS datasets with Solaris zones
• Revision and exam preparation