Exam Number: 1Z0-878

Associated Certifications: Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator

Exam Price: S$ 300

Duration: 105 minutes

Number of Questions: 48

Passing Score: 65%

Exam Topics

Section 1: Manage Virtual File Systems and Core Dumps

  • Explain virtual memory concepts and given a scenario, configure, and manage swap space.
  • Manage crash dumps and core file behaviors.
  • Explain NFS fundamentals, and configure and manage the NFS server and client including daemons, files, and commands.
  • Troubleshoot various NFS errors.
  • Explain and manage AutoFS and use automount maps (master, direct, and indirect) to configure automounting.

Section 2: Manage Storage Volumes

  • Analyze and explain RAID (0,1,5) and SVM concepts (logical volumes, soft partitions, state databases, hot spares, and hot spare pools).
  • Create the state database, build a mirror, and unmirror the root file system.

Section 3: Control Access and Configure System Messaging

  • Configure role-based access control (RBAC) including assigning rights profiles, roles, and authorizations to users.
  • Analyze RBAC configuration file summaries and manage RBAC using the command line.
  • Explain syslog function fundamentals, and configure and manage the /etc/syslog.conf file and syslog messaging.

Section 4: Naming Services

  • Explain naming services (DNS, NIS, NIS+, and LDAP) and the naming service switch file (database sources, status codes, and actions)
  • Configure, stop and start the Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd) and retrieve naming service information using the getent command.
  • Configure naming service clients during install, configure the DNS client, and set up the LDAP client (client authentication, client profiles, proxy accounts, and LDAP configurations) after installation.

Section 5: Managing Solaris Zones

  • Explain consolidation issues, features of Solaris zones, and decipher between the different zone concepts including zone types, daemons, networking, command scope, and given a scenario, create a Solaris zone.
  • Given a zone configuration scenario, identify zone components and zonecfg resource parameters, allocate file system space, use the zonecfg command, describe the interactive configuration of a zone, and view the zone configuration file.
  • Given a scenario, use the zoneadm command to view, install, boot, halt, reboot, and delete a zone.
  • Explain custom jumpstart configuration including the boot, identification, configuration, and installation services.

Section 6: Managing LDAP, Jumpstart, and Live Upgrade

  • Explain custom Jumpstart configuration including the boot, identification, configuration, and installation services.
  • Configure a Jumpstart including implementing a Jumpstart server, editing the sysidcfg, rules and profile files, and establishing Jumpstart software alternatives (setup, establishing alternatives, troubleshooting, and resolving problems).
  • Explain Flash, create and manipulate the Flash archive and use it for installation.
  • Given a PXE installation scenario, identify requirements and install methods, configure both the install and DHCP server, and boot the x86 client.
  • Configure a WAN Boot Installation and perform a Live Upgrade Installation.