SUN CERTIFIED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR – SCSA

 

The Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) certification program is the property of Sun Microsystems Inc. who developed and now manage the program. Australian College of Information Technology offers the SCSA course as a subject within the Diploma of Information Technology (Networking) to prepare students to take the SCSA certification examinations. Australian College of Information Technology is an Authorized Sun™ Education Centre.

Introduction

This certification is for system administrators tasked with performing essential system administration procedures on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and technical application support staff responsible for administering a networked server running on the Solaris OS. The course covers how to administer Sun Solaris systems and how to implement and maintain Sun Solaris networks.

Course Structure

The subject is a series of Instructor led lessons supported by online modules that are accessed through the Sun Learning Centre, a portal hosted by Sun Microsystems, and a series of supervised tutorials offered at the colleges training facilities.. The subject is also supported by a series of training manuals published by Sun Microsystems. These manuals are a study guide and ready reference for tasks that you will perform as part of your training. The manuals contain exercises at the end of each chapter.

Topics Covered

Solaris Operating Environment - Introduction

•  Using the Desktop in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment
•  Using Command-Line Features and Online Help Resources
•  Viewing Directories and Files
•  Changing the Solaris OE Directory Contents
•  Searching Files and Directories
•  Using the vi Editor
•  Using Basic File Permissions
•  Using Commands Within the Korn Shell
•  Performing Basic Process and Job Control
•  Performing Remote Connections and File Transfers
•  Creating Archives
•  Compressing, Viewing, and Uncompressing Files

Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris Operating Environment

•  Introducing the Solaris OE Directory Hierarchy
•  Managing Local Disk Devices
•  Managing the Solaris OE File System
•  Performing Mounts and Unmounts
•  Installing the Solaris 9 Operating Environment
•  Performing Solaris 9 OE Package Administration
•  Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 9 OE
•  Executing Boot PROM Commands
•  Performing Boot and Shutdown Procedures
•  Performing User Administration
•  Performing System Security
•  Configuring Printer Services
•  Using Print Commands
•  Controlling System Processes
•  Performing File System Backups
•  Performing File System Restores
•  Backing Up a Mounted File System With a UFS Snapshot

Advanced System Administration for the Solaris Operating Environment

•  Describing Interface Configuration
•  Describing the Client-Server Model
•  Customizing the Solaris Management Console
•  Managing Swap Configuration
•  Managing Crash Dumps and Core Files
•  Configuring NFS
•  Configuring AutoFS
•  Describing RAID and the Solaris Volume Manager Software
•  Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software
•  Configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs)
•  Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
•  Performing Smartcard Authentication
•  Configuring System Messaging
•  Using Name Services
•  Configuring Name Service Clients
•  Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)
•  Configuring the Custom JumpStart Procedure
•  Performing a Flash Installation

Network Administration for the Solaris Operating Environment

•  Introducing the TCP/IP Model
•  Introducing LANs and Their Components
•  Describing Ethernet Interfaces
•  Describing ARP and RARP
•  Configuring IP
•  Configuring Multipathing
•  Configuring Routing
•  Configuring IPv6
•  Describing the Transport Layer
•  Configuring DNS
•  Configuring DHCP
•  Configuring NTP