Solaris System Administrator Certificate
IIUSA-119: Fundamentals of Unix
Course length: 32 hrs
Prerequisites: To succeed fully in this course, students should have some familiarity with a Web browser.
Tuition: $1885
This hands-on course teaches students how to use UNIX. Operating system commands are covered as well as basic Solaris Operating Environment commands. The class is for new users of the Solaris environment. Students will learn fundamental command-line features of the Solaris Operating Environment including file system navigation, file permissions, the vi text editor, command shells, and basic network use.
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Log in and log out of Solaris and Common Desktop Environments (CDE)
- Compose command-line strings to perform functions
- Navigate the directory tree
- Manipulate text files
- Create files and directories
- Back up and restore user files and directories
- Change permissions of files and directories
- Use the vi text editor
- Identify and modify initialization files
- Employ shell features to streamline command execution
- Use basic network commands
- Use commands to search directories and files
- List active user processes and selectively kill user processes
Special notes: This course, together with the next courses IIUSA-239 and IIUSA-289, serves to prepare students for the Sun Solaris System Administrator credential.
IIUSA-239: Solaris System Administration I
Course length: 40 hrs
Prerequisites: To succeed fully in this course, students should have a user-level knowledge of Unix, which can be achieved by completing IIUSA-119.
Tuition: $2305
In this course, participants will install the Solaris operating system and will perform system administration activities in a hands-on environment. This course provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these essential system administration tasks in the Solaris Operating Environment such as file system management, backup procedures, process control, user administration, and device management.
The Solaris Operating Environment System Administration I course provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these essential system administration tasks in the Solaris 10 Operating Environment.
Instructional topics include the essential tasks of standalone installation, file system management, backup procedures, process control, user administration, and device management.
Special notes: This course, together with the next course IIUSA-289, serves to prepare students for the Sun Solaris System Administrator credential.
IIUSA-299: Solaris System Administration II
Course length: 40 hrs
Prerequisites: To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to: - Install the Solaris Operating Environment on a standalone system, including update patches
- Understand and perform booting and shutdown procedures and options.
- Log into a UNIX system and change passwords, add users, and set up file permissions
- Make directories, set up partitions, and manage files
- Use the Solaris Operating Environment device naming conventions to configure and name devices
- Pass IIUSA-239 Solaris System Adminstration
Tuition: $2305
The Solaris 10 Operating Environment System Administration II course provides students with the skills necessary to administer Sun systems running the Solaris 10 Operating Environment in a network environment. Students are taught how to maintain Sun systems, configure and troubleshoot the NFS, and configure the Network Information System (NIS) environment.
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Install and configure a Solaris Operating Environment server
- Identify and describe the files and commands used to control and monitor access to various machines in a network environment
- Set up event logging
- Administer disks using a volume-management utility
- Redirect all core dumps to a single coredump directory
- Configure NFS to support the client-server environment
- Use the automounter
- Set up and configure CacheFS file systems
- Use Solaris Management Console to perform administrative system management duties
- Set up a role
- Describe the various naming services: Domain Name System (DNS), NIS, Network Information
- System Plus (NIS+), and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Configure and administer the NIS environment
- Use JumpStart to automate a Solaris Operating Environment installation
Special notes: This course, together with the prerequisite course IIUSA-239, serves to prepare students for the Sun Solaris System Administratorcredential.
