Study Strategies

The following study strategies will help you prepare for the test:

Understand each of the commands in this chapter enough so that you can match the command and option with a description. Practice them on a Solaris system so that you can become familiar with the output they produce.
Know all the commands used to display information about a process. When viewing processes, understand each of the fields that are displayed in the output.
Finally, understand how to schedule commands via the Solaris batch-processing facilities. Become familiar with all of the associated configuration files: what they do and how they are formatted.

Exam Alert

Managing System Processes As of this writing, the topic of managing system processes is covered lightly on the CX-310-200 exam. This could change in the future as Sun keeps updating and changing its exams. The best approach is to be prepared and learn the material thoroughly. After all, it's a topic every system administrator needs to know to effectively perform the job.