Re: SCSA certification test lab suggestions

From: ITguy_uk (itguy_uk_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: 3 Sep 2004 16:17:09 -0700

All,

Thanks for your advice, from what I have read here and others advice I
have ordered a Sun Ultra 30 workstation with a 300mhz processor, 256Mb
Ram, 9.1Gb Hard disk, CDROM, 10/100 NIC, Sun Creator 3D Graphics from
a unix refurbished seller on eBay. I initially opted to have Solaris 8
on it as that will be the first SCSA exams I take and then intend to
upgrade to Solaris 9 (exams and workstation).

Colin you made a good point that I hadn't thought of but agree with
about Sun servers. My company have several Enterprise 250's and hidden
under a desk in the server room they don't look to bulky but when they
are free standing they are appreciably bigger than a workstation or a
Wintel PC. Also from the looks of their power supplies they are also
quite power hungry. This obviously is not a factor in a commercial
enviroment but for a home learning lab it could be a problem.

Also from the advice here I am going to try and obtain the official
Sun course material (courses are too expensive to do self funded
study) and work from those along with some text books.

Thanks again for all your advice it has cleared up a few grey areas
and been a great help

Thanks

"Colin B." <cbigam@somewhereelse.nucleus.com> wrote in message news:<41377496_1@news.nucleus.com>...
> Casper H.S. *** <Casper.***@sun.com> wrote:
> > "Colin B." <cbigam@somewhereelse.nucleus.com> writes:
> >
> >>Any of the above, as well as Ultra2 and Ultra5. The Ultra2 is less preferable
> >>for actual work, because it uses the now-dwindling SBUS cards. For the
> >>sake of futureproofing your investment, get something with at least a 200MHz
> >>processor (or two! :-), so that you'll be able to run Solaris 10.
> >
> > Make that > 200MHz, not >= 200 MHz (i.e., avoid UltraSPARC-I)
> >
> > Casper
>
> Oops! Yeah, what he said.
>
> Thanks for the correction.
>
> Colin