Install Software

• Installation of Sun-Solaris on SPARC and INTEL based systems
• Installation on standalone systems
• Network installation

Perform System Boot and Shutdown Procedures for SPARC, x64, and x86-based systems

• Understanding booting process on SPARC & Intel
• Understanding commands under OK prompt
• Understanding different types run levels, R-C scripts.

Manage File Systems

• Introduction to file system
• Understanding different types of file systems
• Mounting and unmouting file systems
• Creating disk quotas for users
• Understanding vfstab and mnttab files
• Inconsistency checking using fsck
• Troubleshooting file systems with fsck

Perform User and Security Administration

• Understanding types of groups
• Creating, modifying, deleting users and groups
• Administration of initialization files and customization
• Monitoring the users
• Understanding password aging
• Advance file permissions using ACL
• System security
• troubleshooting

Manage Network Printers and System Processes

• Configuring local, remote, network printers
• Understanding stand alone and transient daemons
• Troubleshooting

Perform System Backups and Restores

• Understanding types of backups
• Understanding backup levels and backup strategies
• Performing local / remote backup restores

Describe Network Basics

• Controlling and monitoring network interfaces including MAC addresses, IP addresses, network packets, and configuring the IPv4 interfaces at boot time.
• Understanding the client-server model and enabling /disabling server processes

Manage Virtual File Systems and Core Dumps

• Understanding and configuring NFS server and clients
• virtual memory concepts, configuring, and managing swap space
• Configuring automount with direct and indirect mapping
• Managing crash dumps and core file behaviors

Manage Storage Volumes

• Understanding and configuring RAID levels (0,1,5) and SVM concepts (logical volumes, soft partitions, state databases, hot spares, and hot spare pools)

Control Access and Configure System Messaging

• Configuring role-based access control (RBAC) including assigning rights profiles, roles, and authorizations to users.
• Managing syslog messages
• Exploring different facilities and error messages

Naming Services

• Naming services overview
• understanding naming services (DNS, NIS, NIS+, and LDAP) and the naming service switch file (database sources, status codes, and actions)
• Understanding Network Information Service (NIS)
• Configuring NIS master, NIS slave and NIS clients
• Understanding difference between NIS and NIS+
• Configuring NIS+ primary root server and client

Perform Advanced Installation Procedures for SPARC and x86 based systems

• Custom jumpstart installations
• Webstart installations

Configure the Network Interface Layer

• Understanding network model fundamentals, layers of the TCP/IP model and peer-to-peer communication.
• Understanding network topologies, LAN media and network devices
• Understanding Ethernet concepts
• Using network utilities like snoop, netstat, and ndd to configure and troubleshoot network interfaces.
• Examining and managing ARP and RARP, including the ARP table, in.rarpd and the hosts and ethers databases.

Configure the Network (Internet and Transport layers)

• Understanding Internet layer protocols, IP datagrams, IP address types.
• configuring netmasks for subnetting and VLSM
• Distinguishing between direct routes, indirect routes, route table populations, understanding routing protocols, and routing tables
• Understanding the IPv6 addressing to include IPv6 autoconfiguration, unicast, and multicast address types.
• Configuring and troubleshooting IPv6 non-routers, routers, and IPv6 6to4 routers.
• Understanding the types of protocols found in the Transport layer and examining TCP flow control.

Configure and Manage Network Applications (Application layer)

• Understanding DNS service and different types of DNS servers
• Configuring DNS (master, slave) servers.
• Understanding and configuring DHCP server and clients
• Configuring NTP server and NTP clients

Configure Solaris IP Filter

• Configuring the behavior of Solaris IP Filter using packet direction, and using rule processing.
• Configuring and modifying filtering on an IP address, network interface, protocol type, and port.
• Configuring logging in Solaris IP Filter, passed packets, blocked packets, and rule match and analyze logged information and statistics.