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Solaris 10 System Administration Exam Prep 2

By Bill Calkins
Published Dec 23, 2005 by Pearson IT Certification.

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Copyright 2006
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ISBN-10: 0-7897-3461-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-3461-7

A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0789737906 ISBN-13: 9780789737908

The Solaris 10 System Administrator Certification Exam Prep 2 is the ideal book for both new and seasoned system administrators. This book will give you the insight you need into the newest certification exams for system administrators, the 310-200 and the 310-202. It offers classroom-style training by one of the best and well-known authors in the Solaris world, Bill Calkins. It will equip you with vital knowledge for success on exam day plus it acts a reference guide that will come in handy after the test. The content addresses all the new exam objectives in detail and will show you how to apply this knowledge to real-world scenarios.

The included CD features ExamGear's innovative test engine, which will be an effective tool for preparing for the Solaris 10 exam. It provides you with five different ways to test yourself, random questions and order of answers, detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers, and it pays special attention to exam objectives. Also included on the CD is a PDF of the complete text of the book.

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Solaris 10 System Administration Exam Prep (CX-310-200 & CX-310-202)Table of Contents

Introduction
- How This Book Helps You
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Audience
- The Sun Certified System Administrator Exams
- Exam CX-310-200
  - Manage File Systems
  - Install Software
  - Perform System Boot Procedures
  - Perform User and Security Administration
  - Manage Network Printers and System Processes
  - Perform System Backups and Restores
- Exam CX-310-202
  - Describe Network Basics
  - Manage Virtual File Systems and Core Dumps
  - Manage Storage Volumes
  - Control Access and Configure System Messaging
  - Set Up Naming Services
  - Solaris Zones
  - Perform Advanced Installation Procedures
- Exam CX-310-203 (Solaris 10 Upgrade Exam)
- Summary
- Advice on Taking the Exam

Study and Exam Prep Tips
- Learning as a Process
- Study Tips
  - Study Strategies
  - Pre-Testing Yourself
- Exam Prep Tips
  - Putting It All Together

Part I: Exam Preparation

Chapter One: Managing File Systems
- Introduction
- Device Drivers
- Physical Device Name
- Device Autoconfiguration
- USB Devices
- Instance Names
- Major and Minor Device Numbers
- Logical Device Name
  - Block and Raw Devices
- A File System Defined
- Defining a Disk's Geometry
  - Disk Controllers
  - Defect List
  - Disk Labels
  - Partition Tables
- Solaris File System Types
  - Disk-Based File Systems
  - Network-Based File Systems
  - Virtual File Systems
- Disk Slices
  - Displaying Disk Configuration Information
  - Using the format Utility to Create Slices
  - The Free Hog Slice
  - Using the format Utility to Modify Partitions
  - Using the Solaris Management Console Disks Tool
  - Recovering Disk Partition Information
  - Logical Volumes
- Parts of a UFS
- The Root (/) File System
  - Soft (Symbolic) Links
  - Hard Links
  - Removing a Link
- Components of the UFS
  - The Boot Block
  - The Superblock
  - Cylinder Groups
  - The inode
  - The Storage Block
  - Free Blocks
- Creating a UFS
- Understanding Custom File System Parameters
  - Logical Block Size
  - Fragment Size
  - Minimum Free Space
  - Optimization Type
  - Number of inodes and Bytes per inode
  - The mkfs Command
  - The fstyp Command
- File System Operations
  - Synchronizing a File System
  - Repairing File Systems
  - The labelit Command
  - The volcopy Command
- Tuning File Systems
- Mounting File Systems
  - Mounting a File System with Large Files
  - Mounting a File System with UFS Logging Enabled
- Unmounting a File System
  - The fuser Command
  - /etc/mnttab
- Volume Management
  - Using Volume Management
  - Troubleshooting Volume Manager
  - Displaying a File System's Disk Space Usage
  - Displaying Directory Size Information
- Information on File Systems
  - Controlling User Disk Space Usage
  - The quot Command
- Summary
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Review Questions
- Suggested Readings and Resources

Chapter Two: Installing the Solaris 10 Operating Environment
- Introduction
- Installing the Solaris 10 Software
- Requirements and Preparation for Installing the Solaris 10 Software
  - Minimum System Requirements
- Software Terminology
  - Software Packages
  - Software Groups
  - Solaris Media
  - System Configuration to Be Installed
- Disk Storage
  - Basic Considerations for Planning Partition (Slice) Sizes
  - Slice Arrangements on Multiple Disks
- Methods of Installing the Solaris 10 Software
  - Solaris Interactive Installation
  - JumpStart
  - Custom JumpStart
  - Solaris Flash Archives
  - WAN Boot
  - Solaris Live Upgrade
- Upgrading the Operating System
- The Solaris Installation Prechecklist
  - Using the Interactive Installation Process (suninstall)
  - Configuring Power Management
- Tools for Managing Software
- Adding and Removing Software Packages
- Using a Spool Directory
  - Installing Software from the Command Line
  - Removing Software Using pkgrm
  - Solaris Product Registry
  - Web Start Installer
- Listing and Verifying Installed Packages
- Software Patches
- Installing a Patch
  - Installing a Patch
  - Removing a Patch
- Patch Manager (smpatch)
- Patch Tool
- General Guidelines
- Summary
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
  - Suggested Readings and Resources

Chapter Three: Perform System Boot and Shutdown Procedures
- Introduction
- Booting a System
  - Powering On the System
  - The Boot PROM and Program Phases
- The OpenBoot Environment
  - Entry-Level to High-End Systems
  - Accessing the OpenBoot Environment
  - System Control Switch
  - OpenBoot Firmware Tasks
- The OpenBoot Architecture
- The OpenBoot Interface
- Getting Help in OpenBoot
- PROM Device Tree (Full Device Pathnames)
  - OpenBoot Device Aliases
- OpenBoot NVRAM
  - The nvedit Line Editor
- OpenBoot Security
- OpenBoot Diagnostics
  - Input and Output Control
- OpenBoot PROM Versions
- Booting a System
  - The boot Command
- The Kernel
- The init Phase
  - The Solaris Management Facility (SMF) Service
  - Using the Run Control Scripts to Stop or Start Services
- System Shutdown
  - Commands to Shut Down the System
  - Stopping the System for Recovery Purposes
  - Turning Off the Power to the Hardware
- Summary
  - Exercises
  - Review Questions
  - Answers to Review Questions
- Suggested Readings and Resources

Chapter Four: User and Security Administration
- Introduction
- Administering User Accounts
  - Managing User and Group Accounts with the SMC
  - Managing User and Group Accounts from the Command Line
- Setting Up Shell Initialization Files
  - C Shell Initialization Files
  - Bourne Shell Initialization Files
  - Korn Shell Initialization Files
  - Additional Shells Included with Solaris 10
  - Default Initialization Files
  - Customizing User Initialization Files
  - The Home Directory
  - Projects
  - Name Services
- System Security
  - Controlling Physical Security
  - Controlling System Access
  - Controlling File Access
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
  - Setting ACL Entries
  - Checking the New File Permissions
  - Verifying ACL Entries
  - Copying a File's ACL to Another File
  - Modifying ACL Entries on a File
  - Deleting ACL Entries from a File
  - Auditing Users
  - Controlling Network Security
  - Securing Superuser Access
- The Secure Shell (ssh)
- ASET
- Common-Sense Security Techniques
- Summary
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Chapter Five: Managing System Processes
- Introduction
- Viewing a Process
  - pgrep
  - prstat
  - Process Manager
  - SMC Process Tool
  - pargs
  - svcs
- Process Types
- Using Signals
- Scheduling Processes
- Scheduling Priorities
  - Changing the Priority of a Time-Sharing Process with nice
  - Changing the Scheduling Priority of Processes with priocntl
  - Fair Share Scheduler (FSS) and the Fixed Scheduler (FX)
- Using the Solaris Batch-Processing Facility
  - Configuring crontab
  - Scheduling a Single System Event (at)
  - Job Scheduler
- Summary
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Chapter Six: Managing the LP Print Service
- The LP Print Service
- The Solaris Print Service
  - LP Print Service Directories
  - The Print Spooler
  - The LP Print Daemons
- Setting Up the Printer Hardware
  - Ethernet Connections
  - Parallel Connections
  - Serial Connections
  - USB Connections
- Setting Up a Network Printer
  - BSD Versus SVR4 Printing Software
  - Print Servers Versus Print Clients
  - Configuring Software for a Solaris Printer
- Administering Printers
  - Deleting Printers and Managing Printer Access
  - Creating Printer Classes
  - Checking Printer Status
  - Managing Printer Queues
  - Restarting the Print Scheduler
  - Setting a User's Default Printer
  - Modifying the Printer with Print Manager
  - Troubleshooting the Print Scheduler
- Summary
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Chapter Seven: Performing System Backups and Restorations
- Introduction
- Backup Media
  - Tape Device Names
- Solaris Backup and Restoration Utilities
  - The tar Utility
  - The dd Utility
  - The cpio Utility
  - The pax Utility
  - The ufsdump Utility
  - The ufsrestore Utility
  - Recovering the Root (/) or /usr File System
  - Additional Notes About Restoring Files
- The fssnap Utility
- zip and unzip
- Solaris Flash Archive
- The jar Utility
- Summary
- Apply Your Knowledge
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Chapter Eight: The Solaris Network Environment
- Introduction
- Network Fundamentals
  - Network Topologies
  - Network Protocols and Network Models
  - Encapsulation and Decapsulation
  - Packets
  - Ethernet
  - Network Hardware
  - IPv4 Addressing
  - IPv6
- Network Interfaces
  - Controlling and Monitoring an IPv4 Network Interface
  - Configuring an IPv4 Network Interface
  - Changing the System Hostname
- Network Services
- Network Maintenance
- Summary
- Apply Your Knowledge
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Chapter Nine: Virtual File Systems, Swap Space, and Core Dumps
- Introduction
- The Swap File System
  - Swap Space and TMPFS
  - Sizing Swap Space
  - Monitoring Swap Resources
  - Setting Up Swap Space
- Core File Configuration
- Crash Dump Configuration
- NFS
  - NFS Version 4
  - Servers and Clients
  - NFS Daemons
  - Setting Up NFS
  - Mounting a Remote File System
  - NFS Server Logging
- AutoFS
  - AutoFS Maps
  - When to Use automount
- Summary
  - Key Terms
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Chapter Ten: Managing Storage Volumes
- Introduction
- RAID
  - RAID 0
  - RAID 1
  - RAID 5
  - RAID 1+0
- Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)
  - SVM Volumes
  - Planning Your SVM Configuration
  - Metadisk Driver
  - SVM Commands
  - Creating the State Database
  - Monitoring the Status of the State Database
  - Creating a Concatenated Volume
  - Monitoring the Status of a Volume
  - Creating a Soft Partition
  - Expanding an SVM Volume
  - Creating a Mirror
  - Unmirroring a Non-Critical File System
  - Mirroring the Root File System
  - Unmirroring the Root File System
- Veritas Volume Manager
- Summary
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Chapter Eleven: Controlling Access and Configuring System Messaging
- Introduction
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  - Using RBAC
  - RBAC Components
- syslog
  - Using the logger Command
- Summary
  - Review Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Readings and Resources

Chapter Twelve: Naming Services
- Introduction
- Name Services Overview
  - The Name Service Switch File
- /etc Files
- NIS
  - The Structure of the NIS Network
  - Determining How Many NIS Servers You Need
  - Determining Which Hosts Will Be NIS Servers
  - Information Managed by NIS
  - Planning Your NIS Domain
  - Configuring an NIS Master Server
  - Setting Up NIS Clients
  - Setting Up NIS Slave Servers
  - Creating Custom NIS Maps
  - NIS Security
  - Troubleshooting NIS
- NIS+
  - Hierarchical Namespace
  - NIS+ Security
  - Authentication
  - Authorization
- DNS
  - Configuring the DNS Client
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
  - Sun Java System Directory Server
- Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd)
- The getent Command
- Summary
- Key Terms
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Chapter Thirteen: Solaris Zones
- Introduction
- Consolidation and Resource Management
  - Consolidation
- Solaris Zones
  - Types of Zones
  - Zone Features
  - Non-Global Zone Root File System Models
  - Networking in a Zone Environment
  - Zone Daemons
  - Configuring a Zone
  - Viewing the Zone Configuration
  - Installing a Zone
  - Booting a Zone
  - Halting a Zone
  - Rebooting a Zone
  - Uninstalling a Zone
  - Deleting a Zone
  - Zone Login
  - Creating a Zone
- Summary
  - Review Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Chapter Fourteen: Advanced Installation Procedures
- Introduction
- JumpStart
  - Preparing for a Custom JumpStart Installation
  - What Happens During a Custom JumpStart Installation?
  - The Boot Server
  - The Install Server
  - The Configuration Server
  - The Rules File
  - begin and finish Scripts
  - Creating class Files
  - Testing Class Files
  - sysidcfg File
  - Setting Up JumpStart in a Name Service Environment
  - Setting Up Clients
  - Troubleshooting JumpStart
  - A Sample JumpStart Installation
- Solaris Flash
  - Creating a Flash Archive
  - Using the Solaris Installation Program to Install a Flash Archive
  - Solaris Flash and JumpStart
- Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
  - Preparing for a PXE Boot Client
  - Booting the x86 Client
- Summary
  - Exercises
  - Exam Questions
  - Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Reading and Resources

Part II: Final Review

Fast Facts
- Section 1—Exam CX-310-200
- Managing File Systems
  - Devices and Drivers
  - Instance Names
  - File Systems
  - Creating a UFS
  - Volume Management
- Installing the Solaris 10 Operating Environment
  - Tools for Managing Software
  - Software Patches
- System Startup and Shutdown
  - OpenBoot Environment
  - The Kernel
  - Commands to Shut Down the System
- User and Security Administration
  - Shells and Initialization Files
  - System Security
  - Protecting Data
  - Access Control Lists (ACLs)
  - Monitoring Users
  - Network Security
  - Restricting Root Access
- Managing Processes
  - Using the kill Command
  - Projects and Tasks
- Managing the LP Print Service
  - The LP Print Daemons
- Performing System Backups and Restorations
- Section 2—Exam CX-310-202
- The Solaris Network Environment
  - Network Definitions and Hardware
  - Network Classes
  - Configuring Network Interfaces
  - Changing the System Hostname
- Virtual File Systems, Swap Space, and Core Dumps
  - Swap Space
  - Core File and Crash Dump Configuration
  - Network File System (NFS)
  - Autofs
- Managing Storage Volumes
  - RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks)
  - The State Database
- Controlling Access and Configuring System Messaging
  - Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Naming Services
  - /etc Files
  - NIS
  - NIS+
  - DNS
  - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Solaris Zones
- Advanced Installation Procedures
  - JumpStart
  - Solaris Flash

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- Practice Exam Questions
- Practice Exam Answers

Part III: Appendixes

Appendix A: What's on the CD-ROM
- ExamGear, Exam Prep Edition

Glossary

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