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Sun Opens Solaris 10 Cert Program

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Published: Thursday, September 30, 2004

• Relates to: Solaris 9 SCNA | Solaris 9 SCSA | Solaris 8 SCNA | Solaris 8 SCSA | Solaris 9 Security

Apparently, for the first time ever, Sun has started sharing information about upcoming certifications well before the target platform ships—in this case, we're talking about the certs built around Solaris 10, the latest version of Sun's flagship operating system. Though the company says that Solaris 10 won't ship until late in 2004 (by which I take to mean December, before Christmas), they've already posted a Solaris 10 Preview Web page. Likewise, the company's Certification home page includes a section on Solaris 10, with pointers to a free Web-based New Features of the Solaris 10 Operating System course, as well as instructor-led training on Solaris 10.

Even better, Sun has already posted a Solaris 10 System Administration Learning Path page, which includes specific mention of the two exams necessary to earn that credential and ePractice warm-up exams for each one, as well as the upgrade exam that individuals already certified on an earlier version of Solaris must take to validate their credential for Solaris 10. In the same vein, there's also a page for the Solaris 10 Network Management Learning Path, with mention of the related certification exam required to earn that credential. (This is promised for early 2005, as a follow-on to the System Administrator program.)

About the only thing that's missing is a similar page for the company's Sun Certified Security Administrator program. Though a Solaris 10 security class is mentioned, there's no information available about a Solaris 10 version of the security administration cert. Given that the Network Administrator cert isn't scheduled to become available until Q1'05, that leads me to guess this one won't show up until sometime later in the year.