Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration - Exam 1Z0-821 Tutorials
Introduction / Exam Information
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Before we get heavily into Solaris 11, let's talk about the OCA Exam a little bit first. I think this is a good idea because I want you to know a little bit about the exam you're studying for and the exam you're going to take. Now Oracle has designated this exam as 1Z0-821, so that's the one you'll need to sign up for on Oracle's site when you actually sign up for the exam. Now there are 75 questions on this exam and that doesn't sound like a lot but 75 questions can come pretty hard and heavy at you after a few minutes. The passing score is around 64 percent and that seems like it's not very much, but again when you're deep in the exam and you're struggling possibly to get the answers right and to make sure you know what you're doing, 64 percent can seem like a long way off. But don't worry we're going to prepare you for the exam. Now you have about 120 minutes to take the exam, that's two hours. So two hours to do 75 questions is not too bad. You're going to basically encounter some simple questions of course, questions that will appear to be simple, simple multiple choice and there are also maybe scenario types of questions. Oracle of course reserves the right to change the types of questions or the content of the exam at any time. Now the cost will set you back about 300 dollars US and that's as of this particular time, as of this recording. And that's compared to other certification exams, that's actually not too bad. Now let's talk about the exam objectives for a moment and it would be a good idea to go ahead to go ahead and look this up on Oracle's site, simply because sometimes they will change the exam objectives a little bit. But as of right now, as of the time that I'm recording this the exam objectives are here in red and there's actually not very many of them and they cover very basic, simplistic, management and installation and maintenance tasks for Solaris 11. The whole purpose of the OCA Exam is to basically see if you can master the fundamentals of Solaris 11. And they start off by installing Oracle Solaris 11 using an Interactive Installer and we'll cover that obviously. They also want you to know about updating and managing software packages. And if you're familiar with other versions of Solaris or even Linux, they each have their own package management system such as RPMs or Apt-Get or something like that. Well, Solaris 11 has a brand new package manager that we'll discuss in-depth. We also want to look at administering services and these are a wide variety of different things. When they talk about administering services, things that run on the box. We'll also look at setting up and administering data storage and Solaris 11 has peculiar ways of administering data storage and we'll discuss each one of them. We'll also look at administering Oracle Solaris Zones and zones are kind of an interesting concept that Solaris has had for a few years now. And we'll make sure your smart on zones as well before it's all over with. We'll also look at administering a physical network and by that we mean connecting to the network getting your Ethernet interfaces properly configured, your IP addressing and so forth. We'll look at setting up and administering user accounts, basic creation of user accounts, deletion, setting up their passwords and so forth. We'll also take a look at controlling access to systems and files and by this we mean permissions essentially and who can access the systems and, and files and so forth. We'll take a look at managing system processes and scheduling system tasks because as an administrator you're going to be doing these things on a daily basis with your system. Your system wasn't just created for you to play on, it was created to perform tasks, to perform functions and we're going to show you how to manage some of those tests and functions. Now of course these are the overall exam objectives. Each one of the objectives we just looked at has subobjectives too that we'll cover as we go through the course. Those are kind of the overall types of things that we're going to do be doing during the course. So it's not really super hard but there are some things that can get a little complex unless you approach them right and that's what we hope to do is approach them right and show you how to do some of these things one step at a time. And you'll be able to learn them and see how we do them on the screen and repeat that process yourself. But you're also going to need to practice those exam objectives yourself in a controlled environment such as a lab or a virtual machine before you take the exam. Now as I mentioned the exam objectives in this course are very current as of October 2012. And again they are subject to change at Oracle's whim so you want to check the Oracle website for the most current information before you take the exam, usually when you sign up for it.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration - Exam 1Z0-821 |
| Author: | Bobby Rogers |
| SKU: | 34398 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-083-1 |
| Release Date: | 2012-12-24 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 92 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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