Solaris Network Certification

310-044 Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 9

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IP6	Transport Layer	DNS	DHCP	NTP	IP filter	Tips	Humor	Etc

Delivered at: Authorized Prometric testing centers. Cost is $150.
Prerequisites: Previous Solaris OS System Administrator Certification for any version of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 7, 8, 9
Exam type: Multiple choice, free response, drag and drop
Number of questions: 64
Pass score: 70% (only 19 answers on less can be incorrect). Please note that this is actually a very high pass score as at least half of those will be for questions that either are formulated incomprehensively or that are related to features or options about which you have no clue. So in reality you can answer incorrectly only 9 questions or 14%.
Time limit: 105 minutes (1 hour and 45 min total; 1 min 30 sec per question on average)
ePractice Exam
- A set of 10 practice questions is available for free download.
- A complete set of 180 practice questions is also available for $75.00.
The Certification Prep Workshop: Sun Certified Solaris Network Administrator course provides students with a full tutorial, including access to practice exams, to prepare them for the Solaris Certified Network Administrator exam. The course outlines and details the testing objectives of the certification exam, along with the corresponding material from the SA 399 - Network Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System course using a series of overhead slides, which are authored and stored in StarOffice presentation format. The outline of the course includes 12 modules:
Tips
- Approximately half of the questions are generic networking related questions in no way linked to Solaris.
- Be sure you know the bundled Solaris DHCP_server_ in and out. Most of the books (including Sun's SA-399 Study Guide), and even the on-line Sun Docs, are wrong in some areas. Learn it from a working system (which we should all be doing anyway, right? ;-).
- Exam is heavy on DNS questions and they are going beyond basics. Some even presuppose basic DNS troubleshooting skills. Working knowledge of nslookup and dig is required.
- Be sure to understand routing, especially routing table and route command. There is no in depth questions on routing protocols so this area can be skipped (only basic facts about RIP, OSPF, etc are needed to pass the exam).

SA-399 course topics

Module 1 - Introducing the TCP/IP Model

Describe network model fundamentals

Describe the layers of the TCP/IP model

Describe basic peer-to-peer communication and related protocols

Module 2 - Introducing LANs and Their Components

Describe network topologies

Describe LAN media

Describe network devices

Module 3 - Describing Ethernet Interfaces

Describe Ethernet concepts

Describe Ethernet frames

Use network utilities

Module 4 - Describing ARP and RARP

Describe ARP

Describe RARP

Module 5 - Configuring IP

Describe the Internet layer protocols

Describe the IP datagram

Describe IP address types

Describe subnetting and VLSMs

Describe the interface configuration files

Administer logical interfaces

Module 6 - Configuring Multipathing

Increase network throughput and availability

Implement multipathing

Module 7 - Configuring Routing

Identify the fundamentals of routing

Describe route table population

Describe routing protocol types

Describe the route table

Configure static routing

Configure dynamic routing

Describe classless inter-domain routing (CIDR)

Configure boot time routing

Troubleshoot routing

Module 8 - Configuring IPv6

Describe IPv6

Describe IPv6 addressing

Describe IPv6 autoconfiguration

Describe IPv6 unicast address types

Describe IPv6 multicast address types

Enable IPv6

Manage IPv6

Configure IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels

Configure IPv6 multipathing

Module 9 - Describing the Transport Layer

Describe Transport layer fundamentals

Describe UDP

Describe TCP

Describe TCP flow control

Module 10 - Configuring DNS

Describe the DNS basics

Configure the DNS server

Troubleshoot the DNS server using basic utilities

Module 11 - Configuring DHCP

Describe the fundamentals of DHCP

Configure a DHCP server

Configure and manage DHCP clients

Configure for dynamic DNS

Configure a DHCP server to support JumpStart clients

Module 12 - Configuring NTP

Identify NTP basics

Configure an NTP server

Configure an NTP client

Troubleshoot NTP

Network Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System (SA-300-S10)

For Solaris 10 the modules are almost the same (it adds IP filter material (as module 13) and pays more attention to multihoming). Multiparthing was omitted. The course is called Network Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System (SA-300-S10)

Module 1 - Introducing the TCP/IP Model

Describe network model fundamentals

Describe the layers of the Transmission Control Protocol/IP (TCP/IP) model

Describe basic peer-to-peer communication and related protocols

Module 2 - Introducing LANs and Their Components

Describe network topologies

Describe LAN media

Describe network devices

Module 3 - Describing Ethernet Interfaces

Describe Ethernet concepts

Describe Ethernet frames

Use network utilities

Module 4 - Describing ARP and RARP

Describe Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

Describe Reverse ARP (RARP)

Module 5 - Configuring IP

Describe the Internet layer protocols

Describe the IP datagram

Describe IP address types

Describe subnetting and variable length subnet masks (VLSMs)

Describe the interface configuration files

Administer logical interfaces

Module 6 - Configuring IP Network Multipathing

Describe IP multipathing

Implement IP multipathing

Module 7 - Configuring Routing

Identify the fundamentals of routing

Describe routing table population

Describe routing protocol types

Describe the routing table

Configure static routing

Configure dynamic routing

Describe classless inter-domain routing (CIDR)

Configure routing at system boot

Troubleshoot routing

Module 8 - Configuring IPv6

Describe IPv6

Describe IPv6 addressing

Describe IPv6 autoconfiguration

Describe IPv6 unicast address types

Describe IPv6 multicast address types

Enable IPv6

Manage IPv6

Configure 6to4 routing

Configure IPv6 multipathing

Module 9 - Describing the Transport Layer

Describe Transport layer fundamentals

Describe User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

Describe TCP

Describe TCP flow control

Module 10 - Configuring DNS

Describe the DNS basics

Configure the DNS server

Troubleshoot the DNS server using basic utilities

Module 11 - Configuring DHCP

Describe the fundamentals of DHCP

Configure a DHCP server

Configure and manage DHCP clients

Module 12 - Configuring NTP

Identify NTP basics

Configure an NTP server

Configure an NTP client

Troubleshoot NTP

Module 13 - Configuring the Solaris IP Filter Firewall

Identify Solaris IP Filter firewall basics

Configure Solaris IP Filter firewall

Students are encouraged to take the Sun Educational Services ePractice exams before taking the actual Sun Certified Network Administrator exam.

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[Jan 26, 2006] The differences between Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 network administration courses are minimal. That actually means that even Solaris 8 students guides are OK for preparation.

Trunking was deleted from "Module 6 - Configure multipathing and trunking".
"Configure DHCP server to support jumpstart clients" topic was deleted from "Module 11 - Configure DHCP"
Module 13 ("Configuring the Solaris IP Filter Firewall") was added.

Solaris 9 Network Certification Exam Objectives

Configure the Network Interface Layer

Describe the advantages of using a layered network model and describe the functions of the network interface, internet, transport, and application layers of the TCP/IP model.
Describe basic peer-to-peer communication and related TCP/IP protocols.
Describe the features and functions of LAN components, including network topologies, media, and network devices.
Describe Ethernet concepts and statistics, including the major Ethernet elements and the CSMA/CD access method.
Describe the components of an Ethernet frame.
Explain how to use snoop, netstat, and ndd on an Ethernet interface.
Describe the function and management of the ARP and RARP.

Configure the Network (Internet and Transport Layers)

Describe the purpose, features, and functionality of internet layer protocols, IP datagram, IP address types, subnetting and VLSM, and interface configuration files, as used in an IP configuration.
Explain how to configure and unconfigure logical interfaces in IP.
Explain the purpose, benefits, and limitations of multipathing, and explain how to configure multipathing using configuration files and the command-line.
Describe the purpose and limitations of trunking, and explain how the four supported trunking policies impact how trunking is implemented.

Routing

Explain the purpose and usage of routing types (direct and indirect), routing schemes (static and dynamic), and routing protocol types (autonomous systems, interior routing protocols, and exterior routing protocols).
Given a routing table example, describe table entries, identify the routing table search order, and associate a network name to a network number.
Explain how to configure static and dynamic routing, and the configuration of routing at boot time.
Describe the operation of CIDR.
Given a routing scenario problem, troubleshoot the router configuration or network names or both, and select a resolution.
Identify purpose, features, and functionalities for different types of unicast, multicast, and anycast addressing, and autoconfiguration as they relate to IPv6 addressing.
Explain how to configure Ipv6 on a router and non router, and troubleshoot configuration and interface problems.
Explain how to configure IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels and IPv6 multipathing.
Distinguish among protocol characteristics of the transport layer, and explain the fundamentals of TCP and UDP.

Configure and Manage Network Applications (Application Layer)

DNS

Explain the purpose of DNS in a network environment.
Explain how to configure a primary and secondary DNS server and a DNS client.
Given DNS server output for a problem scenario, identify strategies to resolve the problem.
Describe the purpose and features of DHCP client and server functions.
Describe how to configure a DHCP server and use associated utilities.

DHCP

Given DHCP debug output, deduce resolution strategies.
Explain how to configure and manage a DHCP client to request either a dynamic host name or use its own host name.
Explain how to configure a DHCP server to support the JumpStart clients.

NTP

Describe the purpose, features, and functions of NTP, and define NTP terms.
Explain how to configure an NTP server and an NTP client.
Explain how to view logs and use snoop to troubleshoot an NTP problem.

Solaris 10 Exam Objectives

Configure the Network Interface Layer

Describe the advantages of using a layered network model and describe the functions of the network interface, internet, transport, and application layers of the TCP/IP model.
Describe basic peer-to-peer communication and related TCP/IP protocols.
Describe the features and functions of LAN components, including network topologies, media, and network devices.
Describe Ethernet concepts and statistics, including the major Ethernet elements and the CSMA/CD access method.
Describe the components of an Ethernet frame.
Explain how to use snoop, netstat, and ndd on an Ethernet interface.
Describe the function and management of the ARP and RARP.

Configure the Network (Internet and Transport Layers)

Describe the purpose, features, and functionality of internet layer protocols, IP datagram, IP address types, subnetting and VLSM, and interface configuration files, as used in an IP configuration.
Explain how to configure and unconfigure logical interfaces in IP.
Explain the purpose, benefits, and limitations of multipathing, and explain how to configure multipathing using configuration files and the command-line.
Describe the purpose and limitations of trunking, and explain how the four supported trunking policies impact how trunking is implemented.
Explain the purpose and usage of routing types (direct and indirect), routing schemes (static and dynamic), and routing protocol types (autonomous systems, interior routing protocols, and exterior routing protocols).
Given a routing table example, describe table entries, identify the routing table search order, and associate a network name to a network number.
Explain how to configure static and dynamic routing, and the configuration of routing at boot time.
Describe the operation of CIDR.
Given a routing scenario problem, troubleshoot the router configuration or network names or both, and select a resolution.
Identify purpose, features, and functionalities for different types of unicast, multicast, and anycast addressing, and autoconfiguration as they relate to IPv6 addressing.
Explain how to configure Ipv6 on a router and non router, and troubleshoot configuration and interface problems.
Explain how to configure IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels and IPv6 multipathing.
Distinguish among protocol characteristics of the transport layer, and explain the fundamentals of TCP and UDP.

Configure and Manage Network Applications (Application Layer)

Explain the purpose of DNS in a network environment.
Explain how to configure a primary and secondary DNS server and a DNS client.
Given DNS server output for a problem scenario, identify strategies to resolve the problem.
Describe the purpose and features of DHCP client and server functions.
Describe how to configure a DHCP server and use associated utilities.
Given DHCP debug output, deduce resolution strategies.
Explain how to configure and manage a DHCP client to request either a dynamic host name or use its own host name.
Explain how to configure a DHCP server to support the JumpStart clients.
Describe the purpose, features, and functions of NTP, and define NTP terms.
Explain how to configure an NTP server and an NTP client.
Explain how to view logs and use snoop to troubleshoot an NTP problem.

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