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A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0789737906 ISBN-13: 9780789737908 The Solaris 10 System Administrator Certification Exam Prep 2 is the ideal book for both new and seasoned system administrators. This book will give you the insight you need into the newest certification exams for system administrators, the 310-200 and the 310-202. It offers classroom-style training by one of the best and well-known authors in the Solaris world, Bill Calkins. It will equip you with vital knowledge for success on exam day plus it acts a reference guide that will come in handy after the test. The content addresses all the new exam objectives in detail and will show you how to apply this knowledge to real-world scenarios. The included CD features ExamGear's innovative test engine, which will be an effective tool for preparing for the Solaris 10 exam. It provides you with five different ways to test yourself, random questions and order of answers, detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers, and it pays special attention to exam objectives. Also included on the CD is a PDF of the complete text of the book.

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Author:   Bill Calkins
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson IT Certification
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.70cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   1.724kg
ISBN:  

9780789734617

ISBN 10:   0789734613
Pages:   1104
Publication Date:   05 January 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780789737908
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Solaris 10 System Administration Exam Prep (CX-310-200 & CX-310-202)Table of Contents Introduction How This Book Helps You Conventions Used in This Book Audience The Sun Certified System Administrator Exams Exam CX-310-200 Manage File Systems Install Software Perform System Boot Procedures Perform User and Security Administration Manage Network Printers and System Processes Perform System Backups and Restores Exam CX-310-202 Describe Network Basics Manage Virtual File Systems and Core Dumps Manage Storage Volumes Control Access and Configure System Messaging Set Up Naming Services Solaris Zones Perform Advanced Installation Procedures Exam CX-310-203 (Solaris 10 Upgrade Exam) Summary Advice on Taking the Exam Study and Exam Prep Tips Learning as a Process Study Tips Study Strategies Pre-Testing Yourself Exam Prep Tips Putting It All Together Part I: Exam Preparation Chapter One: Managing File Systems Introduction Device Drivers Physical Device Name Device Autoconfiguration USB Devices Instance Names Major and Minor Device Numbers Logical Device Name Block and Raw Devices A File System Defined Defining a Disk's Geometry Disk Controllers Defect List Disk Labels Partition Tables Solaris File System Types Disk-Based File Systems Network-Based File Systems Virtual File Systems Disk Slices Displaying Disk Configuration Information Using the format Utility to Create Slices The Free Hog Slice Using the format Utility to Modify Partitions Using the Solaris Management Console Disks Tool Recovering Disk Partition Information Logical Volumes Parts of a UFS The Root (/) File System Soft (Symbolic) Links Hard Links Removing a Link Components of the UFS The Boot Block The Superblock Cylinder Groups The inode The Storage Block Free Blocks Creating a UFS Understanding Custom File System Parameters Logical Block Size Fragment Size Minimum Free Space Optimization Type Number of inodes and Bytes per inode The mkfs Command The fstyp Command File System Operations Synchronizing a File System Repairing File Systems The labelit Command The volcopy Command Tuning File Systems Mounting File Systems Mounting a File System with Large Files Mounting a File System with UFS Logging Enabled Unmounting a File System The fuser Command /etc/mnttab Volume Management Using Volume Management Troubleshooting Volume Manager Displaying a File System's Disk Space Usage Displaying Directory Size Information Information on File Systems Controlling User Disk Space Usage The quot Command Summary Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Review Questions Suggested Readings and Resources Chapter Two: Installing the Solaris 10 Operating Environment Introduction Installing the Solaris 10 Software Requirements and Preparation for Installing the Solaris 10 Software Minimum System Requirements Software Terminology Software Packages Software Groups Solaris Media System Configuration to Be Installed Disk Storage Basic Considerations for Planning Partition (Slice) Sizes Slice Arrangements on Multiple Disks Methods of Installing the Solaris 10 Software Solaris Interactive Installation JumpStart Custom JumpStart Solaris Flash Archives WAN Boot Solaris Live Upgrade Upgrading the Operating System The Solaris Installation Prechecklist Using the Interactive Installation Process (suninstall) Configuring Power Management Tools for Managing Software Adding and Removing Software Packages Using a Spool Directory Installing Software from the Command Line Removing Software Using pkgrm Solaris Product Registry Web Start Installer Listing and Verifying Installed Packages Software Patches Installing a Patch Installing a Patch Removing a Patch Patch Manager (smpatch) Patch Tool General Guidelines Summary Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Readings and Resources Chapter Three: Perform System Boot and Shutdown Procedures Introduction Booting a System Powering On the System The Boot PROM and Program Phases The OpenBoot Environment Entry-Level to High-End Systems Accessing the OpenBoot Environment System Control Switch OpenBoot Firmware Tasks The OpenBoot Architecture The OpenBoot Interface Getting Help in OpenBoot PROM Device Tree (Full Device Pathnames) OpenBoot Device Aliases OpenBoot NVRAM The nvedit Line Editor OpenBoot Security OpenBoot Diagnostics Input and Output Control OpenBoot PROM Versions Booting a System The boot Command The Kernel The init Phase The Solaris Management Facility (SMF) Service Using the Run Control Scripts to Stop or Start Services System Shutdown Commands to Shut Down the System Stopping the System for Recovery Purposes Turning Off the Power to the Hardware Summary Exercises Review Questions Answers to Review Questions Suggested Readings and Resources Chapter Four: User and Security Administration Introduction Administering User Accounts Managing User and Group Accounts with the SMC Managing User and Group Accounts from the Command Line Setting Up Shell Initialization Files C Shell Initialization Files Bourne Shell Initialization Files Korn Shell Initialization Files Additional Shells Included with Solaris 10 Default Initialization Files Customizing User Initialization Files The Home Directory Projects Name Services System Security Controlling Physical Security Controlling System Access Controlling File Access Access Control Lists (ACLs) Setting ACL Entries Checking the New File Permissions Verifying ACL Entries Copying a File's ACL to Another File Modifying ACL Entries on a File Deleting ACL Entries from a File Auditing Users Controlling Network Security Securing Superuser Access The Secure Shell (ssh) ASET Common-Sense Security Techniques Summary Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Chapter Five: Managing System Processes Introduction Viewing a Process pgrep prstat Process Manager SMC Process Tool pargs svcs Process Types Using Signals Scheduling Processes Scheduling Priorities Changing the Priority of a Time-Sharing Process with nice Changing the Scheduling Priority of Processes with priocntl Fair Share Scheduler (FSS) and the Fixed Scheduler (FX) Using the Solaris Batch-Processing Facility Configuring crontab Scheduling a Single System Event (at) Job Scheduler Summary Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Chapter Six: Managing the LP Print Service The LP Print Service The Solaris Print Service LP Print Service Directories The Print Spooler The LP Print Daemons Setting Up the Printer Hardware Ethernet Connections Parallel Connections Serial Connections USB Connections Setting Up a Network Printer BSD Versus SVR4 Printing Software Print Servers Versus Print Clients Configuring Software for a Solaris Printer Administering Printers Deleting Printers and Managing Printer Access Creating Printer Classes Checking Printer Status Managing Printer Queues Restarting the Print Scheduler Setting a User's Default Printer Modifying the Printer with Print Manager Troubleshooting the Print Scheduler Summary Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Chapter Seven: Performing System Backups and Restorations Introduction Backup Media Tape Device Names Solaris Backup and Restoration Utilities The tar Utility The dd Utility The cpio Utility The pax Utility The ufsdump Utility The ufsrestore Utility Recovering the Root (/) or /usr File System Additional Notes About Restoring Files The fssnap Utility zip and unzip Solaris Flash Archive The jar Utility Summary Apply Your Knowledge Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Chapter Eight: The Solaris Network Environment Introduction Network Fundamentals Network Topologies Network Protocols and Network Models Encapsulation and Decapsulation Packets Ethernet Network Hardware IPv4 Addressing IPv6 Network Interfaces Controlling and Monitoring an IPv4 Network Interface Configuring an IPv4 Network Interface Changing the System Hostname Network Services Network Maintenance Summary Apply Your Knowledge Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Chapter Nine: Virtual File Systems, Swap Space, and Core Dumps Introduction The Swap File System Swap Space and TMPFS Sizing Swap Space Monitoring Swap Resources Setting Up Swap Space Core File Configuration Crash Dump Configuration NFS NFS Version 4 Servers and Clients NFS Daemons Setting Up NFS Mounting a Remote File System NFS Server Logging AutoFS AutoFS Maps When to Use automount Summary Key Terms Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Chapter Ten: Managing Storage Volumes Introduction RAID RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 1+0 Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) SVM Volumes Planning Your SVM Configuration Metadisk Driver SVM Commands Creating the State Database Monitoring the Status of the State Database Creating a Concatenated Volume Monitoring the Status of a Volume Creating a Soft Partition Expanding an SVM Volume Creating a Mirror Unmirroring a Non-Critical File System Mirroring the Root File System Unmirroring the Root File System Veritas Volume Manager Summary Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Chapter Eleven: Controlling Access and Configuring System Messaging Introduction Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Using RBAC RBAC Components syslog Using the logger Command Summary Review Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Readings and Resources Chapter Twelve: Naming Services Introduction Name Services Overview The Name Service Switch File /etc Files NIS The Structure of the NIS Network Determining How Many NIS Servers You Need Determining Which Hosts Will Be NIS Servers Information Managed by NIS Planning Your NIS Domain Configuring an NIS Master Server Setting Up NIS Clients Setting Up NIS Slave Servers Creating Custom NIS Maps NIS Security Troubleshooting NIS NIS+ Hierarchical Namespace NIS+ Security Authentication Authorization DNS Configuring the DNS Client Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Sun Java System Directory Server Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd) The getent Command Summary Key Terms Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Chapter Thirteen: Solaris Zones Introduction Consolidation and Resource Management Consolidation Solaris Zones Types of Zones Zone Features Non-Global Zone Root File System Models Networking in a Zone Environment Zone Daemons Configuring a Zone Viewing the Zone Configuration Installing a Zone Booting a Zone Halting a Zone Rebooting a Zone Uninstalling a Zone Deleting a Zone Zone Login Creating a Zone Summary Review Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Chapter Fourteen: Advanced Installation Procedures Introduction JumpStart Preparing for a Custom JumpStart Installation What Happens During a Custom JumpStart Installation? The Boot Server The Install Server The Configuration Server The Rules File begin and finish Scripts Creating class Files Testing Class Files sysidcfg File Setting Up JumpStart in a Name Service Environment Setting Up Clients Troubleshooting JumpStart A Sample JumpStart Installation Solaris Flash Creating a Flash Archive Using the Solaris Installation Program to Install a Flash Archive Solaris Flash and JumpStart Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) Preparing for a PXE Boot Client Booting the x86 Client Summary Exercises Exam Questions Answers to Exam Questions Suggested Reading and Resources Part II: Final Review Fast Facts Section 1-Exam CX-310-200 Managing File Systems Devices and Drivers Instance Names File Systems Creating a UFS Volume Management Installing the Solaris 10 Operating Environment Tools for Managing Software Software Patches System Startup and Shutdown OpenBoot Environment The Kernel Commands to Shut Down the System User and Security Administration Shells and Initialization Files System Security Protecting Data Access Control Lists (ACLs) Monitoring Users Network Security Restricting Root Access Managing Processes Using the kill Command Projects and Tasks Managing the LP Print Service The LP Print Daemons Performing System Backups and Restorations Section 2-Exam CX-310-202 The Solaris Network Environment Network Definitions and Hardware Network Classes Configuring Network Interfaces Changing the System Hostname Virtual File Systems, Swap Space, and Core Dumps Swap Space Core File and Crash Dump Configuration Network File System (NFS) Autofs Managing Storage Volumes RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) The State Database Controlling Access and Configuring System Messaging Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Naming Services /etc Files NIS NIS+ DNS Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Solaris Zones Advanced Installation Procedures JumpStart Solaris Flash Practice Exam Practice Exam Questions Practice Exam Answers Part III: Appendixes Appendix A: What's on the CD-ROM ExamGear, Exam Prep Edition Glossary Index (c) Copyright Pearson Education. 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Bill Calkins is owner and president of Pyramid Consulting, a computer training and consulting firm specializing in the implementation and administration of Open Systems. He also is the owner of www.UnixEd.com, a web site that provides online UNIX training materials. Bill has more than 20 years of experience in UNIX system administration, consulting, and training at more than 100 different companies. He has authored several UNIX textbooks, which are currently best sellers and used by universities and training organizations worldwide, including the Solaris System 9 Systems Administrator Training Guide from Exam Cram.

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