What courses are on SAI anyway? Unix Essentials: 5 courses towards Sun Certification!

One of the great resource available to all OSUM members is the Sun Academic Initiative (SAI). But what courses are really available on SAI you might ask – well, as the SAI Program Manager I'd like to open your eyes and open your minds to the power of SAI. I will be doing a series of blogs introducing to you some major courses that's available on SAI.

Let's start with the power of UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 10 Operations. Are you unfamiliar with the UNIX operating system? Are you a new user of the Solaris 10 Operating System?Then I would recommend you start with UNIX Essentials.

Unix Essentials is a series of five (5) courses which provides the student with the necessary knowledge and skills to use components of the desktop system, manage files and directories, create and modify files, control the user work environment, archive files, and use remote commands. In addition, the courses explains fundamental command-line features of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), including file system navigation, the vi text editor, file permissions, access control lists (ACLs), command shells, file compression, basic network use, and reading shell scripts.

The five (5) courses under UNIX Essentials are:
WS-1000-S10: Viewing and Using Components of the Desktop System;
WS-1001-S10: Manipulating and Managing Files and Directories;
WS-1002-S10: Searching and Process Manipulation;
WS-1003-S10: Working with the Shell; and
WS-1004-S10: Archiving Files and Remote Transfer.

And guess what – when you finish these five (5) courses – you are ready to be Sun Certified! You read right! These five (5) courses, which gives you the foundation knowledge about Solaris 10, yields to the Sun Certificate Solaris Associate (SCSAS) – this is a new certification – it was just introduce to SAI and to the IT world a few months ago. I have more good news - SAI provides a discount when you are ready to take the certificatio.... So there you go, five courses and you're already ahead of the game with your IT career.

But wait, let me tell you more – if you took these five (5) web courses outside the SAI – it would cost you $800 USD – but you get them all for FREE! Now if that is not a bargain, I don't know what is!

UNIX Essentials is the foundation for Solaris 10 Operating System knowledge. Afterwards, if you're really interested you can continue on and learn System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System Part 1 but that's another blog for me to write about and for you to read....stay tuned!