Exam Essentials

Know which UNIX standard Solaris is based upon. Solaris 9 is based upon the UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4) standard.

Know what the default shell is in Solaris 9. The default shell is the Bourne shell (sh).

Understand the difference between a shell and a GUI. A shell processes commands and acts as the interface between the user and the operating system. Although some shells are graphical in nature, there are GUIs (such as CDE and GNOME) that are not shells.

Know which file systems are supported in Solaris 9. Solaris 9 supports UFS, HSFS, UDF, PCFS, NFS, and other file systems.

Know where to get help if you need it. Many help resources are available. Some important ones are man pages, AnswerBook2, docs.sun.com, and this book.