Solaris 7 Administrator Certification Training Guide: Part I and Part II - Softcover

Calkins, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578702496 ISBN 13: 9781578702497

Publisher: Pearson IT Certification, 2000

Synopsis

Solaris is the fastest growing and most popular commercial UNIX operating system. If you are a IT professional administering systems running on Solaris, you can obtain Sun certification as a way to provide a standard, tangible way of measuring your technical skills. Certification may provide job advancement opportunities and third party validation of skills. This title offers the perfect self-study tool to allow you to prepare confidently at your own pace, in your own time. Comprehensive and focused on teaching what you need to understand --- not just facts you need to know - this book is the most complete test preparation tool available on the market. Structured according to the exam objectives, Solaris 7 Administrator Certification Training Guide, Part I and Part II prepares you by concentrating on subjects such as system startup, server setup and customization, device files, file systems, networking, naming services, user security, software administration, and script writing.

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Review

If you're an experienced system administrator who needs a brush-up before the Solaris exam, the Solaris 7 Administrator Certification Training Guide is for you. Packed with lots of information and commands, it is a critical reference that will help you to a near-guaranteed pass. However if you're new to it or need a concept refresher, you may find this book short on explanations and long on specifics.

First, the good news: this book has quite possibly the deepest technical know-how of any Solaris certification book on the market. The book is crammed with tables, option switches, walkthroughs and explanations on how the various objectives work. If you need to understand the diverse aspects of the boot-up and hardware configuration process, he will walk you through it at a very granular level, showing how the OpenBoot system recognises hardware, mounts files and loads the kernel in explicit detail. If you roughly know what you're doing and need a book to help reinforce that knowledge, this wealth of technical know-how will definitely put you over the edge. The material isn't comprehensive, but it does address a large amount of what you can expect to see on the test. The Certification Training Guide definitely reinforces knowing a few of the important test topics well, rather than teaching all the topics partially.

However, the writing isn't as strong as it might be, and it focuses more on technical aspects than on overall concepts. Furthermore, often you'll find two or three pages worth of screen output on the page without any sort of annotations to point out what the important parts are, or why they're there--these two factors alone ensure that this book is meant for hardcore professionals only.

Some aspects of Certification Training Guide are disappointing from a test-taking stance: there are no questions in the book itself, only in the ExamGear CD-ROM that comes with it--which might not provide enough sample questions to truly practice. Nor does it point out the frequently tested areas or mention commonly confusing issues for certification test-takers.

Still, this is a good, solid book, written for professionals--in that function it serves admirably. --Willam Steinmetz

Synopsis

For courses in Solaris, System Administration, and Certification: MCSE, MCSD, Network, and Other Professional Certifications. Solaris is the fastest growing and most popular commercial UNIX operating system. Students can shows their Solaris administration skills by attempting and achieving Solaris certification. This title offers students the perfect self-study tool to allow them to prepare confidently at their own pace, in their own time. Comprehensive and focused on teaching students what need to understand about Solaris, not just facts they need to know to pass the exam. This book is the most complete test preparation tool available on the market. Structured according to the exam objectives, Solaris 7 Administrator Certification Training Guide, Part I and II prepares students by concentrating on subjects such as system startup, server setup and customization, device files, file systems, networking, naming services, user security, software administration, and script writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson IT Certification
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1578702496
• ISBN 13: 9781578702497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 648