Hi all, I want to get my Solaris certification, what books out there can guide me through the certification. I need the book to also prep me on passing the certification. Thanks a bunch

"Solaris Administrator Certification" by Bill Calkins...its good book.

and best try out practically.

SOLARIS System Administrator's Guide 3rd edition published for SunMicrosystems and Solaris , Janic Winsor.

this is what was given to me when i took the course.

i'm learning Solaris 9 SysAdmin I and II at the moment as well, but i'm going through the Sun web-based course material. not sure of the URL though, as i'm using an internal version i think.

I used the CBT's from Sun to finish my SysAdmin and NetAdmin. For Solaris 9. Though in hindsight I don't think that the training material that I got was all that great. I felt that they were not very well put together. Considering that each CD was $1000 Canadian.

I would instead recommend that you take a look at docs.sun.com in detail for the version of Solaris that you are trying to certify on. (This site is by far the best that I have found) When I say in detail, I mean read through absolutely all the documentation particularly paying attention to the commands section. The SolariAdmin tests 1 & 2 are going to test you very heavily on commands & there options, file system structure & and hardware as well (i.e. inodes & hardlinks)

Note: you will also be tested on your knowledge of the OpenBoot prompt as well. So having access to an older SPARCstation would be an asset. I did my training on an ultra 1 with 200mbs of ram. But you should be able to use either a sparc 4,5,10 or 20 as long as you have enough ram. If for some reason you are not able to get your hands on a Sparc an x86 PC will do for the OS part but again you will need to memorize and understand the openboot prompt commands


Hope this helps you

thanks for the advice... luckily, i'm currently working here at Sun anyway, so i have access to all kinds of equipment, and help if i'm stuck i also have an Ultra 1 at home, and many of them in our lab here.

i've just ordered the exam certificates at £100 each, so i'll let y'all know when i pass!!

fishsponge - what do you do at Sun?

i'm actually on my intern year for my university degree in Computer Science i'm working in a team who's job it is to keep many of Sun's web sites alive, such as SunStore, the Online Support Center, and many other internal and external-facing apps also. Soon to be http://www.sun.com too very interesting internship! i've been here 12 months now, and i'm due to finish in August, to go back to uni for my final year