Sun Certified Solaris 8 System Administrator All- In-One Exam Guide [With CDROM]

by Paul A. Watters

The Solaris 8 System Administrator two-part exam is progressive in nature - a test candidate must successfully pass Part I before proceeding to Part II. This guide will serve as both a study tool for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072126574
• ISBN13: 9780072126570
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.7" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Cuts through the bull

I am learning Solaris after years in the Windows world and I am also learning that Solaris Certification is a heck of a lot tougher than my MSCE. But breaking into the world is hard - every book I pick up is just visual spaghetti. This book is focused, to the point and is worth it. Maybe some of the reviewers here know more than me, but I am learning a lot from this book.The thing I really want is to get a UNIX simulator or something to practise on.

A good start

I am an experienced administrator of UNIX systems and I picked this book up out of interest. It seems to cover most of the material not just for exam but "after exam". Truly, if readers think that reading a book will allow them to pass the exam, they are ignorant. You will need experience not books my friends! This book is a good place to start though.

Chapter 5 looks good to me

I bought this book because I liked the author's beginner's book. Now I'm going to sit for my exam in two weeks, so I'm concerned about the nagtive "anonymous" reviewer from RI. I was worried that maybe Chapter 5 (about packages) contained lots of "unexplained terms". I checked my copy and found tons of "fully explained terms". For example, "pkgchk" is explained as "a command to examine the package properties of a file that's already been installed". That sounds pretty true to me. "pkgino" is used to check all of the packages which have been installed, and so on. I just can't find the unexplained terms, or the "copy/paste job from hell". And how would a Windows 2000 help me pass the Solaris exam anyway Mr. Reviewer from RI???

A good resource

This book seems to cover all of the material required for the exams (I and II any way). It could be longer - maybe more examples would help. Overall, though, a nicely presented volume with some very helpful exam software.

Good coverage: suited for beginners->intermediate

I'm a Solaris 7 certified admin, and I'm thinking of taking the new exam soon. I've picked up this book now and it appears to have one chapter for each of the units in the Sun syllabus, rather than just throwing everything together. Lots of good examples too. There's excellent coverage of tough topics like NIS+, and obscure topics like modems (I mean, don't we all use ethernet these days?). The exam CD-ROM was useful. My only concern is that I can't find any coverage of LDAP (is that in the exam?).