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Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)

A Firebrand Training


7


Day Course

Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) - Overview

This 7 day program is an accelerated, residential, fully-immersed course intended for system administrators who are preparing to perform essential and advanced system administration procedures in the latest Solaris 10 Operating System.

The course provides students with hands-on experience working with essential and complex administration tasks. It includes the certification tests and assessments throughout the week using example test questions. Students will undertake a series of lectures and lab exercises focussing on attaining the SCSA certification.

Students will live, learn, and test on-site.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Manage file local and network systems
  • Perform system boot procedures
  • Perform user and security administration
  • Manage network printers and system processes
  • Perform system backups and restores
  • Describe network interface configuration
  • Manage swap configuration and core dumps
  • Manage storage volumes
  • Control access and configure system messaging
  • Set up name services
  • Configure Role Based Access Control
  • Use Name Services (DNS, LDAP, NIS)
  • Implement and Manage Zones
  • Configure Automated Installations (Jumpstart)

Instructors are available at all times to provide individual and group attention, lead lab exercises and practice sessions, and ensure the students' success. Our attention to detail shows in our unsurpassed instruction and customer service, our classroom and testing facilities, and ourindividual and corporate success stories.

Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) - Benefits

The Sun Solaris 10 SCSA certification is the globally recognised standard for validating expertise with the Solaris operating environment.

Firebrand Training's accelerated program for the Sun Solaris certification is the most comprehensive educational format available.

Reasons for SCSA certification include career advancement, personal improvement, skills enhancement, and higher salaries. SCSA certified individuals report increased competence and productivity with the Sun Solaris operating system. SCSA certification sets you apart in today's competitive job market, bringing employment opportunities, greater earning potential and career advancement, in addition to increased job satisfaction.

For employers, getting your staff certified will improve their technical knowledge and enhance their ability to use Solaris Technology. In turn, this investment in your workforce can help you increase revenue and decrease costs by:

  • Increasing your employees' productivity, thereby decreasing time-to-market and giving your organisation a competitive advantage
  • Increasing service levels and reducing the risk of system failure
  • Ensuring that your employees have the required skills to meet your application development needs
  • Standardising your criteria for recruitment and/or for promoting employees
  • Increasing employee satisfaction and commitment to the business - and the likelihood that they will remain in their jobs
  • Increasing the credibility of your staff, and your business as a whole

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.

Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need, including

  • Intensive group instruction
  • One-on-one instruction attention
  • Hands-on labs
  • Lab partner and group exercises
  • Question and answer drills
  • Independent study

This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes. Firebrand Training provides a guarantee of obtaining certification at the camp, but does not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification.

Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) - Curriculum

Part 1

  • Introducing the Solaris 10 OS Directory Hierarchy
  • Managing Local Disk Devices
  • Managing Solaris OS UFS File Systems
  • Performing Mounts and Unmounts
  • Solaris 10 OS Installation Requirements
  • Performing Solaris 10 Package Administration
  • Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 10 OS
  • Using Boot PROM Commands
  • Using the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB)
  • Performing Boot and Shutdown Procedures
  • Performing User Administration
  • Introducing System Security
  • Configuring and Using Printer Services
  • Controlling System Processes
  • Performing File System Backups
  • Performing File System Restores
  • Backing up a Mounted File System with a UFS Snapshot

Part 2

  • Describing Interface Configuration
  • Describing the Client-Server Model
  • Introducing Sun Connection Services
  • Managing Swap Configuration
  • Managing Crash Dumps and Core Files
  • Configuring NFS
  • Configuring AutoFS
  • Describing RAID and Solaris Volume Manager Software
  • Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software
  • Configuring Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Configuring System Messaging
  • Using Name Services
  • Configuring Name Service Clients
  • Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)
  • Introduction to Zones
  • Introduction to the ZFS File System

Day 1

Introducing the Solaris 10 Directory Hierarchy

  • Describe / (root) subdirectories
  • Describe file components
  • Describe file types
  • Use hard links

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

Managing Solaris OS File Systems

  • Describe Solaris OS file systems
  • Create a new ufs file system
  • Check the file system using the fsck command
  • Resolve file system inconsistencies
  • Monitor file system use

Performing Mounts and Unmounts

  • Identify mounting basics
  • Perform mounts
  • Perform un-mounts
  • Access a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
  • Restrict access to a floppy or CD-ROM
  • Access a diskette or CD-ROM without Volume Management (vold)

Performing Solaris 10 Package Administration

  • Describe package

Managing Software Patches on Solaris 10

  • Describe the fundamentals of patch administration
  • Install and remove patches and patch clusters

Installation Requirements for Solaris 10

  • Identify fundamentals of DVD installation
  • Solaris 10 OS installation and upgrade options
  • Hardware requirements for Solaris OS installation

Day 2

Using Boot PROM Commands

  • Identify boot programmable read-only memory (PROM) fundamentals
  • Use basic boot PROM commands
  • Identify the system's boot device
  • Create and remove custom device aliases
  • View and change non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters from the shell
  • Interrupt an unresponsive system

Using the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB)

  • Introduction to GRUB
  • Influencing boot behaviour with GRUB

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

Performing User Administration

  • Describe user administration fundamentals
  • Manage user accounts
  • Manage initialization files

Introducing System Security

  • Monitor system access
  • Switch users on a system
  • Control system access
  • Restrict access to data in files

Configuring and Using Printer Services

  • Identify network printing fundamentals
  • Configure printer services
  • Administer printer services
  • Start and stop the line printer (LP) print service
  • Specify a destination printer
  • Use the LP print service

Day 3

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

Performing File System Backups

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

Performing File System Restores

  • Restore ufs file systems
  • Explain disaster recovery fundamentals

Backing Up a Mounted File System With a UFS Snapshot

  • Create a UFS snapshot
  • Back up the snapshot file

Review

Exam 310-200

Day 4

Describing Interface Configuration

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

Describing the Client-Server Model

  • Describe client-server processes
  • Start server processes

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

Managing Swap Configuration

  • Describe virtual memory
  • Configure swap space

Managing Crash Dumps and Core Files

  • Manage crash dump behaviour
  • Manage core file behaviour

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
  • Troubleshoot NFS errors

Configuring AutoFS

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

Describing RAID and the Solaris(TM) Volume Manager Software

  • Describe RAID
  • Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts

Day 5

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

Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

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

Configuring System Messaging

  • Describe the fundamentals of the syslog function
  • Configure the /etc/syslog.conf file
  • Configure syslog messaging

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

Configuring Name Service Clients

  • Configure a DNS client
  • Configure an LDAP client

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 6

Introduction to Zones

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

Introduction to the ZFS File System

  • 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
  • Manage ZFS properties
  • Mount and unmount ZFS file systems
  • Work with snapshots and clones
  • Use ZFS datasets with Solaris zones

Review and Study Time

Day 7

Review and Study Time

Exam 310-202

Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) - Exam Track

This course is focused on attaining SCSA certification and will include sitting exams 310-200 and 310-202.

Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) - What's Included

Firebrand Training offers top-quality technical education and certification training in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so our students can focus solely on their studies and certification goals.

Our Certification Programs includes

  • Intensive Hands-on Training Utilising our (Lecture | Lab | Review)TM Delivery
  • Comprehensive Study Materials, Program Courseware and Self-Testing Software
  • Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access
  • Examination vouchers *
  • On site testing **
  • Accommodation, All Meals, Beverages, and Snacks
  • Transportation to/from designated local railway stations
  • Examination Passing Policy

Please note

  • *  Exam vouchers for our (ISC)2 certifications need to be purchased directly from (ISC)2
  • ** On site testing is not included in our ISACA, or ITIL Managers and Revision Certifications

Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.

Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.

Examination Passing Policy

Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year.  Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.

Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) - Prerequisites

Delegates are required to meet the following prerequisites:

  • Have a good understanding of basic Unix commands and tasks
  • Be able to use pipes and redirection with confidence
  • Understand the filesystem structure and be able to modify the contents of files and directories
  • Use the vi editor proficiently

Firebrand Training staff interview all potential students regarding their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and personal fortitude. This screening process ensures a successful match between the customer and Firebrand Training toward accelerated training and certification.

Firebrand Training is an aggressive training environment. You must have an attitude aimed for success. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.

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"It was a tough experience, long days, lots of material, but coupled with outstanding tuition, good food, and a great class, and of course a PASS! It was worth it!"
Bryan Celentano, Ultra Electronics Controls Division.

"Provides focused training in a learning environment."
Paul Austin, affiniti.

"An excellent centre if you want to achieve your results rapidly and in a very intensive format. Do not underestimate the intensity of the course, but it will get you where you want to be if youre prepared to work hard!"
Matthew Shoebridge, Hampshire Medical Services.

"Firebrand Training offer a training solution that fits the busy technical professional. It is difficult or even impossible for anyone to get away and do the courses separately, so the bootcamp is ideal. Staff are amazingly friendly, and the instructor is both knowledgable, personable, and articulate. An amazing two weeks, and I will definitely be back!"
Simon Phillips, Yokogawa Middle East.

"Loved it, professional environment that encourages you to learn."
RM, Dlapiper.

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Ben Westlake, Nemo Personal Finance.

"A great week, very tiring and very intense. Good group morale, with enthusiastic discusion during revision times. A very positive environment."
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Michael Harding, n/a.

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CS, Civil Service.

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"Everything was excellent from the standard of the teaching to the food. Simply the best environment to learn in."
DA,

"My instructor was Mark Percy and he is 1st class. Certainly calmed my nerves and prepared me fully."
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"I had low expectations of myself coming onto the course (CCNA) as the Cisco exams have a reputation for being difficult and my attempt at self study was not going well. But our instructor drilled us well and showed great patience with our slow brains, giving us the confidence to do well!"
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Certified System Administrator (SCSA) Course Dates

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