Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator Certified Professional Upgrade - 1Z0-879 Exam Practice Test
You have just finished mirroring the boot drive on your x86-based Solaris system. Your primary boot disk is cid0p0 and your alternate boot disk is c2d0p0. Which procedure must you perform to make the secondary submirror bootable?


Correct Answer: C
There has been a PROM patch released and you need to check which revision your SPARC-based systems are currently using. Which two commands tell you the version? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: A,B
The client-server model describes the communication process between two computers or programs. Which two statements are true about a client in the client server model?
(Choose two.)
(Choose two.)
Correct Answer: B,E
A new colleague asks what the purpose of the boot_archive file is on a Solaris SPARC system. Which answer best describes the boot_archive file?
Correct Answer: A
When your Solaris system is booted, a startup script initializes the rpcbind service. Which script is it?
Correct Answer: D
You want to create a copy of an active ZFS file system named dbase. When listing the information on the file system, the following information is displayed:
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
files/dbase 24.5K 72.8G 24.5K /data/dbase
data/dbase@bckup_dbase 0 - 24.5K -
Rather than unmount the file system, back it up and transfer the data to a second file system, you want to create a point in time snapshot of the current dbase file system and copy that snapshot. Based on the information displayed above, which answer describes the steps necessary to complete this process?
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
files/dbase 24.5K 72.8G 24.5K /data/dbase
data/dbase@bckup_dbase 0 - 24.5K -
Rather than unmount the file system, back it up and transfer the data to a second file system, you want to create a point in time snapshot of the current dbase file system and copy that snapshot. Based on the information displayed above, which answer describes the steps necessary to complete this process?
Correct Answer: C
Another system administrator created several snapshots on the server. The snapshots were backed up to tape using ufsdump. The tapes were labeled using each virtual device name and the corresponding mount point but does not include the name of the original file system where the snapshot was taken. How can you determine the file system that was backed up to tape?
Correct Answer: D
Since installing an operating system patch, your server keeps crashing for unknown reasons. You're been told to start saving the information from the crash in the /crash filesystem (c1t1d0s7) so that a technician can analyze the problem.
Which answer displays the configuration file information required to save all crash dumps in the /crash directory?
Which answer displays the configuration file information required to save all crash dumps in the /crash directory?
Correct Answer: A
What are three functions of the metaroot command? (Choose three.)
Correct Answer: B,D,E
Which Solaris 10 tools provide a user interface which enables the system administrator to analyze a system for available updates and install only those updates that you selected? (Choose two)
Correct Answer: C,D