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 | | Solaris 10: System Administration (Exam CX-310-200 & CX-310-202) by Bill Calkins ISBN-10: 9780789734617 ISBN-10: 0-7897-3461-3 ISBN-13: 9780789734617 ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-3461-7 Paperback 2006-01-02 Que Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The Solaris 10 System Administrator Certification Exam Prep 2 is the ideal book for both new and seasoned system administrators. This book will give you the insight you need into the newest certification exams for system administrators, the 310-200 and the 310-202. It offers classroom-style training by one of the best and well-known authors in the Solaris world, Bill Calkins. It will equip you with vital knowledge for success on exam day plus it acts a reference guide that will come in handy after the test. The content addresses all the new exam objectives in detail and will show you how to apply this knowledge to real-world scenarios.
The included CD features ExamGear's innovative test engine, which will be an effective tool for preparing for the Solaris 10 exam. It provides you with five different ways to test yourself, random questions and order of answers, detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers, and it pays special attention to exam objectives. Also included on the CD is a PDF of the complete text of the book. | ||
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The Book Does Its Job Will this book guarantee you a 100% on the Solaris 10 exams? No. Will it help you pass? Very likely yes. I took the test, using only this book and the optional 494 study question package. I studied until I could score 90% on the review questions consistently. I passed with 70% on the upgrade exam. I admit that I don't use the advanced features of Solaris 10 on a regular basis. I've never worked with zones, zfs, snapshots, and only rarely use the SMF. I can't fault Bill Calkins for my own lack of experience. But this book got me up to speed enough to pass. Obviously, the book can't give the answers to the actual exam questions. It doesn't try to. The book does a great job of covering the material that will be on the exam, and the scenarios you will be dealing with. I must disagree with the reviewers who said none of the content in the book was on the exam. They must have taken a microsoft exam by mistake. On the Solaris 10 upgrade test I took, ALL THE MATERIAL ON THE TEST was covered in Calkins' book. | ||
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Very poor book. None of the book content was on exam! I read this book cover-to-cover. It was so poorly done. It's almost like the author has no understanding of the SCSA exam at all. I took both SCSA exams and neither one had any questions that were related in this book. If you want to pass the exams, I highly recommend that you not read this book! Poor, poor, very poor. | ||
5 stars SPARC / 0 stars x86 content Just passed the 310-200 exam which covers SPARC, x64, and x86 based systems. This book's coverage of the SPARC content is in depth, on the other hand the x64 and x86 coverage little more that footnotes. Two thumbs up SPARC content, two thumbs down on x64 & x86 content. | ||
Good reference - not sure it's a complete cert guide Am new to Unix/Linux and desperately needed skills to do my job. So I bought this book with the intention of getting the certification. For somebody that is new to Solaris (or Unix), this is a great. It's fairly step by step (compared to an O'Reilly book I have that is strictly a reference guide), so makes it fairly easy to pick up Solaris. Even after finishing the cert, I am using this book heavily. Is really good on SMF, which is a plus as I have seen another hefty Solaris 10 book that does not even make a mention of. My one complaint on this book is that it's not a complete certification guide. In one exam, I got asked 3 questions on snoop that weren't covered in the exam (hint read the snoop man pages). If the exam was straight out of the book (note Sun endorse it), I would have got through each exam first time, but took two attempts on each. My advice is that if you are going to use this book to pass the exams, make sure you know the material really well or be an experienced sysadmin (Sun recommend atleast one years experience). There will be questions that aren't covered by the book. I have to take a star off for that. This book has taught me lots and got me up to speed really quickly, just wish this guy would write one for the networking exam as well. | ||