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SA-100-S10 - UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 10 Operating System
 
 
The UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 10 Operating System course provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to use components of the desktop system, manage files and directories, create and modify files, control the user work environment, archive files, and use remote commands. In addition, this course explains fundamental command-line features of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), including file system navigation, the vi text editor, file permissions, access control lists (ACLs), command shells, file compression, basic network use, and reading shell scripts. This course is the first of a two-part series that students take in preparation for the Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris, Part I examination.
 
Who Can Benefit
 
Students who can benefit from this course are individuals who are preparing to perform basic system administration duties and are new to the Solaris OS, or those who are unfamiliar with the UNIX operating system.
 
Prerequisites
 
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
  • Use basic computer hardware (monitor, keyboard, mouse)
  • Input commands and control characters from a keyboard
 
Skills Gained
 
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
  • Use components of the desktop system
  • Use command-line features and help resources
  • Manage and view files and directories and change the directory contents
  • Create and modify files and use basic file permissions
  • Create ACLs
  • Control the user work environment
  • Use commands within the shell
  • Perform basic process and job control
  • Archive files and create archives
  • Compress, view, and uncompress files
  • Perform remote file transfers
 
Related Courses
 
After: 
  • Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System (SA-200-S10)
  • Shell Programming for System Administrators (SA-245)
  • Shell Programming for System Programmers (SL-120CU)
 
Course Content
 
Module 1 - Using the Desktop in the Solaris 10 Operating System
 
 
  • Describe the hardware components of a computer
  • Describe the Solaris operating system components
  • Describe the SunOS operating system
  • Log in to the system
  • Use the desktop environment
 
Module 2 - Using Command-Line Features and Help Resources
 
 
  • Construct and execute commands from the command line
  • Use online documentation
 
Module 3 - Viewing Directories and Files
 
 
  • Work with directories
  • Work with files
  • Print files
 
Module 4 - Changing the Solaris OS Directory Contents
 
 
  • Copy files and directories
  • Move and rename files and directories
  • Create files and directories
  • Remove files and directories
  • Use symbolic links
 
Module 5 - Using the vi Editor
 
 
  • Describe the fundamentals of the vi editor
  • Modify files by using the vi editor
 
Module 6 - Using Commands Within the Shell
 
 
  • Use shell metacharacters
  • Describe the Korn shell variables
  • Display the command history
  • Describe the command-line interpreter
  • Work with user initialization files
 
Module 7 - Using Basic File Permissions
 
 
  • View file and directory permissions
  • Determine file or directory access
  • Change the permissions
  • Modify the default permissions
 
Module 8 - Configure Access Control Lists (ACLs)
 
 
  • Describe ACLs
  • Configure ACLs by using the command line
  • Configure ACLs using the File Manager graphical user interface (GUI)
 
Module 9 - Searching Files and Directories
 
 
  • Search for content in files
  • Search for files and directories
 
Module 10 - Performing Basic Process Control
 
 
  • Describe Solaris OS processes
  • View a process
  • Search for a specific process
  • Send a signal to a process
 
Module 11 - Advanced Shell Functionality
 
 
  • Manage jobs in the Korn shell
  • Describe the Korn shell alias utility
  • Use Korn shell functions
  • Set Korn shell options
 
Module 12 - Reading Shell Scripts
 
 
  • Describe shell scripts
  • Run shell scripts
  • Pass values to shell scripts
  • Use the test command
  • Perform conditional commands
 
Module 13 - Creating Archives
 
 
  • Archive files
  • Compress and archive files using the jar command
 
Module 14 - Compressing, Viewing, and Uncompressing Files
 
 
  • Compress files using the compress command
  • View compressed files using the zcat command
  • Uncompress files using the uncompress command
  • Compress a file with the gzip command
  • View files using the gzcat command
  • Compress and archive multiple files with the zip command








 
Classroom Equipment
Collier Computing utilizes SunBlade 150 workstations for every student.

They are equipped with 512 Megabytes of RAM and dual 80 Gigabyte Harddrives.
 
Servers and Storage
Our investment in your future includes Sun V210 and V240 servers, 3310 and S1 Storage Arrays, all behind a V65x server running Checkpoint firewall software.

We utilize current hardware to deliver our courseware to ensure that you have exposure to today's technology !
 
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