Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 OS.Part 1

1. You need to quickly obtain the physical and logical device names for the disks attached to the server. Which command achieves this?
A. config
B. format
C. devices
D. prtconf | grep name
Answer: B

2. A disk has been returned from the accounts department for reformatting using their predefined disk layout. Which two commands in the partition sub-menu will load the predefined table and commit it to the disk? (Choose two.)
A. label
B. name
C. choose
D. modify
E. select
Answer: AE

3. The security policy for the company is that volume managment is disabled for all the systems. A user has brought a DOS-formatted diskette with files that need to be transferred to that user's home directory. Which command mounts the diskette?
A. mount -F pcfs /dev/rdiskette /pcfs
B. mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /pcfs
C. mount -F pcfs /floppy/floppy0 /pcfs
D. mount /floppy/floppy0 /pcfs
Answer: B

4. As system administrator, you are asked to install an additional internal disk into a SPARC-based workstation that is needed to store application data.
Which two procedures will present the new disk to the Solaris 10 OS? (Choose two.)
A. 1) Execute # touch /reconfigure.
2) Execute # init 5.
3) Install the new disk into the workstation.
4) Power on the workstation.
B. 1) Execute # devsfadm -C disk.
C. 1) Excute # init 0.
2) At the ok prompt, type setenv auto-boot? false.
3) Power off the workstation.
4) Install the new disk into the workstation.
5) Power on the workstation.
6) At the ok prompt, type setenv auto-boot? true.
7) At the ok prompt, type boot -r.
D. 1) Execute # halt.
2) Power off the workstation.
3) Install the new disk into the workstation.
4) Power on the workstation.
5) At the ok prompt, type boot -x.
E. 1) Execute # init 5.
2) Install the new disk into the workstation.
3) Power on the workstation.
4) Using vi, manually edit the /etc/path_to_inst file and add an entry for the new disk.
5) Execute # init 6.
Answer: AC

5. Every user's home directory is located in the /export/home file system as /export/home/<username>. The output from df -h shows the user's home file system filling up:

Filesystem                size       used       avail        capacity   Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5    7.9G       7.5G      0.4G         95%       /export/home

Which command  would display disk usage by user?
A. du -h /export/home
B. df -k /export/home/*
C. ls -lR /export/home
D. du -sh /export/home/*
Answer: D

6. You have installed a package called SUNWvts onto your system. Where is the information about every file and directory contained in this package stored?
A. /var/sadm/messages
B. In your home directory.
C. /var/spool/SUNWvts
D. /var/sadm/install/contents
E. /var/adm/installed/contents
F. /etc/default/installed/packages/information
Answer: D

7. The Solaris OS supports a standard set of file types that are found in nearly all UNIX based systems. Of the different types of files that exist in the Solaris OS, which three represent a particular file type? (Choose three)
A. Directory
B. Hard link
C. Device file
D. Symbolic link
Answer: ACD

8. As system administrator, you are asked to remove the SUNWaudd package from a user's workstation. When you run the command to remove this package, you see the following messages on your console:

## Verifying package dependencies.
WARNING:
         The <SUNWauddx> package depends on the package currently being removed.
WARNING:
         The <SUNWusb> package depends on the package currently being removed.     
         Dependency checking failed.

What happens to the files associated with the SUNWauddx and SUNWusb packages if you continue with the removal operation?
A. The files are removed.
B. The files remain on the system.
C. Only the files shared with the SUNWaudd package are removed.
D. The files are marked for removal, but are only removed after the next reboot.
Answer: B

9. The IT manager, who wants to prevent anyone from accessing the CD-ROM drive and installing unauthorized software, asks you, as the system administrator, to disable the volume management service from starting upon reboot on a production server. Which of the following actions should you take to secure your system in this way?
A. Using vi, edit the /etc/inittab file and comment out the /etc/rc3.d/S81volmgt entry.
B. Run the rm /etc/rc3 command.
C. Rename the /etc/rc3.d/S81volmgt script to /etc/rc3.d/s81volmgt.
D. Run the svcadm disable /etc/rc3_d/S81volmgt command.
Answer: C

10. After a power outage, a user's workstation in your department will no longer mount the user's home directory. You believe that the superblock in the /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 file system has become corrupt. Which command will display the alternative backup superblocks?
A. fsck -sb /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7
B. newfs -sb /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7
C. fsck -N /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7
D. newfs -N /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7
Answer: D

11. You are installing Solaris 10 OS on a SPARC-based system with a graphical monitor and keyboard, but the installation starts up in CLI mode. Assuming you have typed the correct installation command, what is the cause?
A. You used the DVD.
B. The monitor is monochrome.
C. Solaris OS is a text-only installation.
D. The system has less than 384 megabytes of RAM.
E. The system has less than 128 megabytes of RAM.
Answer: E

12. You are going to install a remote system using a WAN boot installation. Which two items are true of a WAN boot and must be part of your pre-installation checklist? (Choose two.)
A. WAN boot is supported on machines with SPARC and x86 CPUs.
B. You cannot use WAN boot on machines running the Solaris OS for x86 platforms.
C. A CDROM is required to access the wanboot program and WAN boot miniroot.
D. The system must have WAN boot support in the OBP or PXE support in the BIOS.
E. An HTTP server must be available on the network.
Answer: BE

13. When setting up your server, you want these network services configured on the fresh installation of Solaris 10, before the first reboot:

syslogd - limited to local connections
NFS server daemons  - disabled
dtlogin - limited to local connections
fingerd - disabled
ssh - enabled

Which method is used to configure these services?
A. Run the netservices limited command.
B. Install the Reduced Network Support software group during the installation of the OS.
C. Boot to the multi-user milestone; Do NOT boot to the multi-user-server milestone.
D. After the first boot, use the svcadm command to disable or enable each of these services.
E. Answer NO to enabling network services  for remote clients during the installation of the OS
Answer: E

14. You have been requested to supply a list of the Solaris software cluster groups for a project. Which command produces the required information?
A. cat /etc/cluster
B. cat /var/sadm/install_data
C. grep METACLUSTER /etc/release
D. cat /var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER
E. grep METACLUSTER /var/sadm/system/admin/.clustertoc
Answer: E

15. As the Solaris OS administrator in your department, you have been asked to upgrade a SPARC-based server currently running Solaris 8 OS to the latest Solaris 10 OS release. This server is critical to the department's productivity, so this upgrade must be done with minimal downtime and must allow for rollback to the previous version. Which installation method should you use?
A. Live Upgrade
B. Flash Archive
C. Custom JumpStart
D. WAN boot installation
Answer: A

16. A client has asked you to install a Solaris 10 OS, SPARC-based workstation in a LAN that hosts no other Solaris OS workstations. Which two protocols allow for a web server to respond to this new workstation's WAN boot client requests? (Choose two.)
A. NFS
B. TFTP
C. HTTP
D. RARP
E. HTTPS
Answer: CE

17. The BIOS on your x86-based system has this Boot Device Priority settings:

         First boot device [Hard Disk]
         Second boot device  [LAN]
         Third boot device [  ]No operating system is currently loaded on the disk and you want to install Solaris 10 on this system.

Without making any changes to the BIOS settings, which installation method must you use?
A. Use the WAN boot installation.
B. Use PXE with custom JumpStart.
C. Boot off from a Solaris PXE diskette.
D. Solaris cannot be installed on this hardware configuration.
E. You must boot off from a Solaris 10 Device Configuration Assistant Diskette.
Answer: B

18. The boot disk on your x86-based server has been corrupted and you just finished restoring the root (/) file system to c1d0. Which describes the command(s) that you will use to install the GRUB programs from the Solaris OS DVD?
A. /usr/sbin/installboot /usr/platform/`uname \
-i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk  /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0
B. /usr/sbin/installboot  /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /a
/sbin/installgrub /a/boot/grub/stage1 /a/boot/grub/stage2 \
/dev/rdsk/c1d0s0
C. /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0
D. /usr/sbin/installboot /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 \ /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0
E. /usr/sbin/mount /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /a; /sbin/installgrub \ /a/boot/grub/stage1 /a/boot/grub/stage2
 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0
Answer: C

19. The /export/home file system is running out of space on c0t0d0s7.  You added a new disk to the system and it is named c1t1d0.   You need to move the /export/home file system to slice 7 on the new disk. Which command is used to move the data from /export/home to the new disk after booting  the server to the single-user milestone?
A. mount /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 /mnt ; ufsdump 0ucf - \ /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 | (cd /mnt; ufsrestore xf - )
B. ufsdump 0ucf - /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 | ufsrestore xf - \ /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s7
C. ufsdump 0ucf - /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7|  ufsrestore xf - \ /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s7
D. mount /export/home; ufsdump 0ucf - /export/home | \ ufsrestore xf - /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
Answer: A

20. You need to do a restore of a damaged /usr file system on your x86-based server running Solaris 10 OS. Which procedure do you complete to get into single user mode on your system to perform the restore?
A. Boot from the DCA and select Hard Disk as your boot device.
B. Boot from the hard disk into single user mode.
C. Boot from the CD-ROM or DVD, and when prompted at the Current Boot Paremeters menu, type b -s.
D. Boot from the CD-ROM or DVD, and when prompted at the ok prompt, type boot -s.
Answer: C

21. A corrupted file system is now repaired and back in use. Some, but not all of the files within the file systems have been deleted. The only backup of this file system is a month-old tar archive. This archive will need to be restored as root.

Which two statements correctly describe the effects of the restore operation? (Choose two.)
A. Files found in the file system that are also on tape will NOT be overwritten.
B. The missing files, present on the backup tape, are restored to the file system with the data as it was when the backup was taken.
C. The access times are preserved by tar and will reflect the time when a user last accessed the data.
D. The modification time on the files restored by tar will be preserved and will reflect the time the file was last modified before the backup, NOT the time of the restore operation.
Answer: BD

22. The organization requires that file systems be backed up from a snapshot. After the file system has been backed up, the two files created by the snapshot process have to be removed. Which two files need to be removed? (Choose two.)
A. rm snapshot
B. fssnap -r filesystem
C. fssnap -d filessytem
D. rm backing_store_file
Answer: CD

23. The automatic nightly backup of the /export3 file system failed because of a lack of space on the tape. You need to put in a fresh tape and manually restart the backup. To do this, you need to know which disk device holds the /export3 file system. Which two commands provide this information? (Choose two.)
A. /usr/bin/ls
B. /usr/bin/du
C. /usr/sbin/df
D. /usr/sbin/disks
E. /usr/sbin/mount
Answer: CE

24. You have created a snapshot of the /data1 file system which is currently in use and is currently located on c0t0d0s5. The information on the snapshot is as follows:

Snapshot number                   : 0
Block Device                           : /dev/fssnap/0
Raw Device                             : /dev/rfssnap/0
Mount point                             : /data1
Device state                            : idle
Backing store path                  : /var/tmp/snapshot0
Backing store size                   : 0 KB
Maximum backing store size    : Unlimited
Snapshot create time              : Sat Jul 07 11:04:53 2007
Copy-on-write granularity        : 32 KB

You need to create a copy of the /data1 file system and put the copy on the file system named /data2 located on c1t1d0s5.

Which (what?) describes how to clone the active file system named /data1 to the file system named /data2?
A. ufsdump 0ucf  - /data1 | ufsrestore xf /data2
B. mount /dev/fssnap/0  /mnt;  ufsdump 0ucf  - /mnt \
| (cd /data2; ufsrestore xf - )
C. mount /dev/rfssnap/0  /mnt;  ufsdump 0ucf  - /mnt \
| (cd /data2; ufsrestore xf - )
D. ufsdump 0ucf - /dev/rfssnap/0 | (cd /data2; ufsrestore \
xf - )
Answer: D

25. Click the Exhibit button.

Which three statements are true? (Choose three.)
 
A. fssnap -d /etc will delete snapshot /dev/rfssnap/0
B. /mnt is mounted on /dev/fssnap/0 with read/write permission.
C. fssnap -d /etc will automatically delete the backing store file.
D. ufsdump 1ufN /dev/rmt/0 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 /dev/rfssnap/0 will run the incremental backup of /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 to /dev/rmt/0
E. /dev/fssnap/0 has the backing store file on the server 129.147.12.105
Answer: ADE

26. This information is displayed describing the details of a file system snapshot:

Snapshot number                   : 0
Block Device                           : /dev/fssnap/0
Raw Device                             : /dev/rfssnap/0
Mount point                             : /export/home
Device state                            : idle
Backing store path                  : /var/tmp/snapshot0
Backing store size                   : 0 KB
Maximum backing store size    : Unlimited
Snapshot create time              : Sat Jul 07 11:04:53 2007
Copy-on-write granularity        : 32 KB

Which command was executed to display this information?
A. /usr/sbin/fssnap -a
B. /usr/sbin/fssnap -i /export/home
C. /usr/lib/fs/ufs/fssnap -i /export/home
D. /usr/lib/fs/ufs/fssnap -a /export/home
Answer: C

27. Click the Exhibit button.
The steps that should be used to interactively restore the /etc/inet/hosts file from the second ufsdump file on a tape are shown in the exhibit.
In which order should they be executed?
 
A. 3, 6, 4, 2, 1, 5, 7, 8
B. 3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 1, 7, 8
C. 3, 6, 5, 2, 1, 4, 8, 7
D. 3, 5, 6, 4, 2, 1, 8, 7
Answer: D

28. As system administrator, you are asked to troubleshoot a SPARC-based system that is NOT booting properly. The console messages indicate that ufsboot is not being loaded properly or is corrupted. Which phase of the boot process is ufsboot loaded?
A. Init Phase
B. Boot PROMS Phase
C. Boot Programs Phase
D. /etc/inittab Phase
E. Kernel Initialization Phase
Answer: C

29. You want to boot a SPARC-based system and stop system initialization at run level 2. Which two procedures can do this? (Choose two.)
A. Use the reboot -- -2 command to shut down and reboot the system.
B. From the OBP ok prompt, boot the system using the boot -2 command.
C. Set the milestone for this reboot to multi-user.
D. Shut down the system with the init s command, then use the init 2 command to switch to run level 2.
E. From the OBP ok prompt, boot the system to run level s, then use the init command to set the run level to 2.
Answer: CE

30. Your Solaris x86-based server has two boot drives. You want to add an entry to the GRUB main menu, so that during the boot process, you can select to boot the server from either of the disk drives.

How would you add a new entry to the GRUB main menu to allow the operator to select which drive to boot from?
A. Edit the bootenv.rc file and enter a value for the altbootpath parameter.
B. Use the kernel command to edit the boot entries in the GRUB main menu.
C. Edit the menu.lst file and add an entry for the second boot disk to the GRUB main menu.
D. When the GRUB menu appears during the boot process, type to edit the GRUB menu and enter the command to boot from the alternate disk drive.
E. Press the space bar when the GRUB menu is visible during the boot process to edit the list of commands and enter the command to boot to the alternate disk drive.
Answer: C