Sun Certified Solaris(tm) 9 System and Network Administrator All-in-One Exam Guide [Hardcover]

Paul Watters (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 28, 2003 | Series: All-In-One (Series)

This completely revised all-in-one exam guide inclues three full practice exams, information, tips, end of chapter quizzes and advice on tough technical topics.

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From the Back Cover

"All-in-One is All You Need."

Prepare to pass the Solaris 9 System and Network Administrator certification exams

Get complete coverage of the material contained on all three exams required for the Solaris 9 System and Network Administrator certifications inside this single, comprehensive volume. Written by best-selling Solaris expert Paul Watters, this definitive, dual-purpose reference covers all the official objectives for these exams and details key features of the Solaris 9 operating system environment. You'll also get sample questions, test-taking tips, and real-world scenarios, making this book an ideal study tool and desk reference.

Get complete details on all exam objectives, including how to:

• Configure devices and secure hardware using OpenBOOT commands
• Install and manage patches effectively
• Reduce size of files and directories for storage
• Back up and restore file systems to tape
• Understand the function of each layer within the seven layer OSI model
• List advantages of a virtual disk management application
• Identify main components of a JumpStart server
• Administer DHCP clients and servers
• Diagnose and resolve common network problems

Includes three practice exams on CD and three on the Web, totaling hundreds of questions

About the Author

Paul A. Watters, PhD (Rouse Hill, Australia) specialises in building e-commerce and Internet information systems, based on Java, Solaris and open standards like CORBA. He is also a columnist and author for the trade journal Inside Solaris, and is lead author of the titles Solaris 8: The Complete Reference and Sun Certified Solaris 9 System Administrator All-in-One Exam Guide, both published by Osborne McGraw-Hill, and co-author of the SuSE Linux Bible, published by Wiley.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 768 pages
• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (January 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072225300
• ISBN-13: 978-0072225303
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,588,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #83 in Books > Computers & Technology > Operating Systems > Solaris

More About the Author

My philosophy in writing books has been strongly influenced by my college teaching experience in information technology and software engineering - clear descriptions of basic principles, philosophy and motivation for using a specific technology, and then clear examples of how to use it in practice. In a book with limited pages, it's not always possible to cover every topic, or to provide all information on a specific topic in the detail required to perform a particular task. I see the role of trade books as "breadth first, depth second" - these books provide orientation, but if you need intimate detail on a specific application, function or method, then you will almost certainly need to consult vendor documentation. For example, the Sun administration reference collection for Solaris contains many thousands of pages of detail, which can be daunting at first, but very useful in the long term.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, May 27, 2003

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Ivan Horvat (Croatia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sun Certified Solaris(tm) 9 System and Network Administrator All-in-One Exam Guide (Hardcover)

I bought this book and the Tim Gibbs book. Both are very good certification books with many, many test questions. Of course these authors are not going to reprint the exact test questions - that would be against copyright. ...

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, February 27, 2003

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Katrina Leahy (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sun Certified Solaris(tm) 9 System and Network Administrator All-in-One Exam Guide (Hardcover)

I just bought two books in the All-In-One series - this one and the CISSP book - and they are just great. This one covers most of the topics in good detail for the sysadmin and net admin exams. I didn't give it 5 stars because I would have liked a bigger section for net admin. But the new exams have been "dumbed down" so much that maybe it's OK.

And before any M$ bigots jump in with more trashy comments on UNIX - save your breath for the .NET server release (I'm still holding).

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Broad coverage of relevant topics, April 6, 2003

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Ryan Kearney (Boston MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sun Certified Solaris(tm) 9 System and Network Administrator All-in-One Exam Guide (Hardcover)

I'm currently studying for the System Administrator exam and I found this book to be very useful indeed. It covers all of the main topics listed in the exam requirements, but sometimes you have to dig to find them (why do publishers always have poor indexing). I've been reading the Sun manuals - and they're too long and too verbose. Watters cuts through the ...and explains concepts very clearly usually with one or more worked examples. I like the format and the hardcover is very durable - many of my other computer books just end up falling apart.