Sun Solaris

SA-200 S10 – System Administration with Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 1

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The System Administration for the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (Solaris 10 OS), Part 1 course gets you further engaged with the most efficient, secure and reliable operating system ever built. This course gives you direct experience with the most essential system administration tasks in the Solaris 10 OS. You will be instructed in crucial system management skills including: managing local disk devices, managing UFS file systems, installing and removing Solaris packages and patches, performing system boot procedures. The course also covers user and security administration, managing network printers and system processes, and performing system backups and restores. This course is the second of a two-part series that helps you to prepare for Part I of the Sun Certified System Administration for Solaris OS examination.

SKILLS GAINED Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Manage file systems
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform user and security administration
• Manage network printers and system processes
• Perform system backups and restores

COURSE OUTLINE

• Module 1 - Introducing the Solaris(TM) 10 OS Directory Hierarchy
  • Describe / (root) subdirectories
  • Describe file components
  • Describe file types
  • Use hard links

  
  
• Module 2 - Managing Local Disk Devices
  • Describe the basic architecture of a disk
  • Describe the naming conventions for devices
  • List devices
  • Reconfigure devices
  • Perform hard disk partitioning
  • Manage disk labels
  • Describe the Solaris Management Console
  • Partition a disk by using the Solaris Management Console

  
  
• Module 3 - Managing Solaris OS ufs File Systems
  • Describe Solaris OS file systems
  • Create a new ufs file system
  • Check the file system using the fsck command

  
  
• Module 4 - 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

  
  
• Module 5 - Installation Requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
  • Identify fundamentals of DVD installation
  • Solaris 10 OS installation and upgrade options
  • Hardware requirements for Solaris OS installation

  
  
• Module 6 - Performing Solaris 10 OS Package Administration
  • Describe the fundamentals of package administration
  • Administer packages using the command-line interface

  
  
• Module 7 - Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 10 OS
  • Describe the fundamentals of patch administration
  • Install and remove patches and patch clusters

  
  
• Module 8 - Using the GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB)
  • Introduction to GRUB
  • Influencing boot behavior with GRUB

  
  
• Module 9 - Performing Boot and Shutdown Procedures
  • Describe the 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

  
  
• Module 10 - Performing User Administration
  • Describe user administration fundamentals
  • Manage user accounts
  • Manage initialization files

  
  
• Module 11 - Introducing System Security
  • Monitor system access
  • Switch users on a system
  • Control system access
  • Restrict access to data in files

  
  
• Module 12 - Controlling System Processes
  • View system processes
  • Kill frozen processes
  • Schedule an automatic one-time execution of a command
  • Schedule an automatic recurring execution of a command

  
  
• Module 13 - Performing File System Backups
  • Identify the fundamentals of backups
  • Back up an unmounted file system

  
  
• Module 14 - Performing File System Restores
  • Restore ufs file systems
  • Explain disaster recovery fundamentals

  
  
• Module 15 - Backing Up a Mounted File System With a UFS Snapshot
  • Create a UFS snapshot
  • Back up the snapshot file