(Solaris & AIX)

CareerStart UNIX System Administration career track is very detailed and totally hands-on. The following are just few of the exercises that students actually perform in class as part of their lab exercises:

• Hands-on training on Sun and IBM servers
• Adding physical devices such as disks, printers, modems etc.
• Implementing RAID0+1 and RAID5
• Hands-on Network printing configuration and setup using JetAdmin
• Shell scripting in Bourne, Korn and C shells along with awk and sed
• Hands-on configuration of DNS, DHCP, NIS+ servers in Solaris8

Though this program does not require any UNIX pre-requisites, this is a rigorous program and you must be willing to devote a substantial amount of time and effort to complete it. Your gains will be in direct proportion to the effort you put into it.

What is UNIX?

UNIX is the industry's most powerful operating system. People with good UNIX knowledge are very much in demand and command excellent salaries. The objective of this track is to provide students a strong conceptual knowledge and lots of hands-on exercises to help understand the UNIX System Architecture and Administration better and to appreciate the best practices of the IT industry.

CareerStart UNIX System Admin Career Track is designed primarily for career changers with no prior background in UNIX. That being said, you must have a reasonably good end user skills. The following basic knowledge is assumed of each student:

• Reasonably good familiarity with the Windows operating system.
• Knowledge of basic computer applications.

The CareerStart UNIX System Administration Career Track assists students in preparing for Sun Certified Systems Administrator for the Solaris Operating Environment.