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FREE Sun Beta Certification Exam for Security Admins

Friday Jun 09, 2006



CALLING ALL SECURITY GEEKS!

Do you like free stuff? Do you enjoy helping others and sharing your wisdom and experience? Would you like to participate in an effort to help create a Sun certification exam? Do you assess, configure or manage security functions on Solaris 10 systems? If so, read on because we have a great opportunity for you! 

If you are an expert security administrator, this is your opportunity to get involved
in the creation of the new Solaris 10 Sun Certified Security Administrator exam!  As 
a beta tester, you officially test the test and will be able to provide Sun with 
valuable comments and technical feedback about the questions. Sun beta exams count
towards official Security Certification!

Recommended prerequisites: 

Twelve months job-role experience administering security in a Solaris Operating System
and previous Solaris OS system and network administration.

If this sounds like fun to you and you would like to participate, then please check out the Solaris 10 Sun Certified Security Administrator beta program page and read all about it. Registration does not officially begin until July 3, 2006, so check out the program, the testing objectives and start getting ready today!

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Posted at 02:51PM Jun 09, 2006 by gbrunett in Solaris 10 Security Tags:
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Glenn thanks for the pointer to the test. Do you know of any good books/pdf's to use for studying for the test? I have read most of all the Solaris 10 Adminstration books for the new features, and was wondering if there is a book that is just for Security in addition to the Security Services book on docs.sun.com. jason

Posted by Jason on June 09, 2006 at 09:29 PM EDT #


Jason,

On the Beta Program web site there is a link to a list of course objectives that will be helpful in studying for the exam. On that page, there is a list of suggested resources that certainly you should include in your studies. The "Security Services" book and the Sun BluePrints articles are certainly a good place to start.

As you can see from those pages, you will need to have a strong understanding (at an administrative level) of the core security capabilities found in Solaris 10 (including those that were inherited from earlier versions of the OS.) By "administrative level", I mean that you should know what a given capability is, why it is important, how it is installed and configured, and how to troubleshoot typical problems with it. Basically, you will need to know how to perform tasks commonly associated with a Solaris security administrator job role.

I hope that this helps! Best of luck to you!

Glenn

Posted by Glenn Brunette on June 12, 2006 at 11:25 AM EDT #

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