SCSA 10 Beginnings
This category is meant to help prepare for the Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10, Part 1, exam (that’s a mouthful). Sun’s certifications do not lend themselves to the catchy acronyms like other certifications either by strange letter combinations or because they are less frequently attained. Whatever the case, this study guide will follow the objectives listed on the page linked above. If you’ve never taken a Sun exam before, the most important piece of advice I can give is that they don’t stray from the objectives. Know the objectives and you can pass the exam.
I gained access (legitimately!) to my first UNIX box at the age of 13 via 300 baud modem. The administrator of that box gave me 5 pieces of information: 1) this is a directory, 2) this is how you change directories, 3) this is how to list files in a way to know what is file/directory/executable, 4) how to show a executable’s command line arguments (we didn’t need no stinkin’ man pages, and they wouldn’t have fit, anyway), and 5) that I couldn’t hurt anything. A year later a was a very scary 14 year old and could bend UNIX to my will. Two decades later, the core of UNIX is very much unchanged. My background in Solaris started in graduate school (mid 1990s) when I had the opportunity (meaning I was volunteered) to administer a SPARCclassic.
At any rate, good luck with your studies and testing. Let us know how you do on your exams and, if you find something out there that you think is a helpful resource for an objective, please share it with us!