UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 9 OS

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code.

SA-119

length.

4 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$2,600 :: $2,210 GSA GOV.

The UNIX? Essentials Featuring the Solaris 9 Operating Environment 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 Environment (Solaris OE), including file system navigation, the vi text editor, file permissions, command shells, file compression, and basic network use. 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.

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

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 OE, 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, students 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
	Control the user work environment
	Use commands within the Korn shell
	Perform basic process and job control
	Archive files and create archives
	Compress, view, and uncompress files
	Perform remote file transfers

related courses, exams and materials

	after related training and products

	SL-120 Shell Programming for System Programmers
	SA-239 Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 9 OS

course content details

	Module 1 - Using the Desktop in the Solaris 9 OE

	Describe the four main hardware components of a computer
	Describe the three main components of the SunOS operating system
	Log in to the system
	Use the desktop environment

	Module 2 - Using Command-Line Features and Online 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 OE 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 - Searching Files and Directories

	Search for content in files
	Search for files and directories

	Module 6 - Using the vi Editor

	Identifying the fundamentals of vi operation
	Switching between command and edit modes
	Using the vi commands

	Module 7 - Using Basic File Permissions

	Viewing file and directory permissions
	Determining file or directory access
	Changing the permissions
	Modifying default permissions

	Module 8 - Using Commands Within the Korn Shell

	Use the shell metacharacters
	Describe the Korn shell variables
	Display the command history
	Describe user initialization files

	Module 9 - Performing Basic Process and Job Control

	Describe a process
	View a process
	Search for a specific process
	Send a signal to a process
	Manage a job in the Korn shell

	Module 10 - Performing Remote Connections and File Transfers

	Establish a remote login session on another system
	Copy files or directories to and from another system
	Transfer files between systems

	Module 11 - Creating Archives

	Archiving files
	Compress and archive files

	Module 12 - 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