Solaris 10 System Administration Exam Prep: CX-310-200, Part I (2nd Edition) (Pt. 1)

In This Book You’ll Learn How To:

Install and configure the Solaris 10 operating environment on SPARC and x86/x64-based platforms
Set up, manage, back up, and recover file systems
Execute System Boot and Shutdown Procedures for SPARC and x86/x64-based systems
Manage services using the Service Management Facility (SMF)
Perform User and Security Administration
Set up and manage printers and system processes
Perform system backup and recovery operations

“Bill’s original Cert Prep guides were used throughout Sun’s service organization as the SEs studied for Certification. This was not mandated by Sun management but happened through word-of-mouth by those software engineers who had successfully passed the exam. In this new edition, Bill adds a chapter to explain the boot process (from POST to service initialization through SMF) on both SPARC and x86 systems. All chapters have been updated to reflect the Solaris 05/08 updates including detailed coverage of the x86 platform. This new guide is still the best source I know of to study for the exam. —Brian Howard, Systems Engineer / Solaris Ambassador

WRITTEN BY A LEADING SOLARIS EXPERT!

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 works as a consultant with Sun Microsystems and has contributed extensively to the Solaris certification program and simulation technology. He also owns www.unixed.com, a website that provides online UNIX training materials. Bill has more than 20 years of experience in UNIX system administration, consulting, and training at more than 250 different companies and government agencies and has authored several books on Solaris.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-3790-8

ISBN-10: 0-7897-3790-6

Customer Reviews:

Must Have

By Nurd - May 12, 2009

If you are planning to take the 200 exam this book will help you pass the test. Unlike the book by Sanghera this goes into the depth needed to pass the test. Test requires more than just the knowledge of what commands to use but what switches are required to get the proper outcome. This book is roughly the same size as SCSA Solaris 10 book from McGraw Hill which covers the 200 and 202 exam while this book only cover the 200 exam. The wealth of knowledge that is achieved by reading this book not only allowed me to pass the exam but to increase my skills on areas that I do not normally use as a sysadmin. Now I am waiting for part II to be published.

Excellent Book for Solaris

By liworth "liworth" - January 11, 2011

I took a Solaris 10 Advanced System Admin class several years ago while working primarily on IBM's AIX platform.
Currently I am a contractor who has to work on Solaris, Linux and AIX. I was unable to find the books from my Solaris 10 class and purchased this book. So far it has helped me with my current position and I highly recommend the book as a useful tutorial and reference.

Kindle version does NOT have the CD contents; Book assumes some prior knowledge

By Christopher de Vidal "TenThousandDollarOffer.com" - February 4, 2012

Note: The Kindle version does NOT have the CD contents. I was hoping Amazon would post the contents to their web servers for you to redeem with your Amazon account, but no.

This will be the last time I purchase a technical book as a Kindle; for one, I tend to flip back and forth very quickly in these kinds of books, leaving my fingers in one page and looking at the other. The Kindle doesn't lend itself well to that. For another, there's the loss of CD content as I already mentioned.

Also I couldn't get past the first chapter; I've passed the very basic Solaris exam and I've used versions 8, 9 and 10 SPARC off-and-on for the past two years but this author jumps in at what seems to be a very high level. Seems I'll need a book for intermediate help before going back to this.

Three stars because it seems to be a very thorough help for the exam.