Solaris is the fastest growing and most popular commercial UNIX operating system. If you are a IT professional administering systems running on Solaris, you can obtain Sun certification as a way to provide a standard, tangible way of measuring your technical skills. Certification may provide job advancement opportunities and third party validation of skills. This title offers the perfect self-study tool to allow you to prepare confidently at your own pace, in your own time. Comprehensive and focused on teaching what you need to understand --- not just facts you need to know - this book is the most complete test preparation tool available on the market. Structured according to the exam objectives, Solaris 7 Administrator Certification Training Guide, Part I and Part II prepares you by concentrating on subjects such as system startup, server setup and customization, device files, file systems, networking, naming services, user security, software administration, and script writing.

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Lots of info but... - 2002-01-03
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Yeh, there is lots of useful information in this book, BUT, don't
rely on it to pass the exam, as a matter of fact, don't get suck-
ered in to buying the "on-line" test exams. Why? well, out of
271 questions for exam 1... (81 on the actual test), ONE
question was covered! I realize that the ACTUAL exam can not be
distributed to the general public, but come on, at least be
CLOSE! Anyone who has studied UNIX knows that there is a LOT to
learn... do yourself a favor, study REAL hard... and don't
confine yourself to what is on the CD!!!

Solid Solaris 7 Training Guide - 2001-10-28
Reviewer Rating:
This book was a very solid training guide for preparing me to take the Certification Tests. I will say that some of the questions on the test were not covered in the guide. However that was only a small subset of questions. I recommend this book becuase it fully prepares you for the major parts of the Tests.

You can pass the test with this book - 2002-10-14
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I have 3+ years of Solaris administration experience. I passed the first admin test recently with ease and my only source of study was this book. There were very few questions I couldn't answer because they weren't covered in the book. Read each chapter in the book and answer the study questions in the CD that comes with the book. You'll be ready for the exam.

Good Reference Book But ............ - 2002-03-16
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I decided to buy this book prior to attending a Sun Admin course to avoid being totally lost in class.
While this book contains a wealth of theory and real-world scenarios, it contains sections that aren't on the exam (backup tools - 'cpio' and 'dd') and a lot of the command options listed in the book weren't stressed on the exams. The way it is organized is a little crazy at times. The actual exam questions come right out of or are based on scenarios used in Sun literature... and that literature is word for word with Man Pages and similar to Answerbooks Best thing to do is PRINT OUT THE EXAM OBJECTIVES to know what you need to know and what you don't, use this book to clarify (and it will) anything you have trouble with. I used this book to better understand and illustrate the topics of the exams objectives, especially Part 2 and passed both.

This is suppose to prepare you for the Solaris Cert Test? - 2001-09-28
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I would not depend on this book alone to provide you with the necessary information inorder to pass the Solaris cert exam. I especially would not use the CD practice test for the exam. I found a few of the questions in the practice test that were graded by the program as correct, but actually were incorrect.
I used both this book and the Sun Education books that are distrubuted by Sun when you take the Admin I and II classes. If I only studied Bill Calkins's book and not the Sun Ed books I would not have passed the cert exams. The only true study book for the exam is the Sun Education books. Unfortunately, it's not easy to get a copy of the Sun Ed books unless you take the courses or know someone with copies. As a source of reference for general day-to-day Unix administration I would give the book 4 stars. One last comment, a Unix book that provides a practice test program on CD that won't run on Unix (Solaris nor Linux). Not a big issue, but this is kind of funny if you think about it.

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