HP-UX CSA: Official Study Guide and Reference (2nd Edition) (HP Professional Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rafeeq Ur Rehman
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 399740
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1072
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 2.2
ISBN: 0131448544
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.432
UPC: 076092025542
EAN: 9780131448544
ASIN: 0131448544
Publication Date: September 2, 2004
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Product Description
This book offers comprehensive preparation for HPis tough new HP-UX CSA examoand an expert reference for working system/network administrators. Youill find thorough, HP-reviewed coverage of every exam objective, including installation, configuration, control, maintenance, kernel tuning, and network administration. Coverage includes: Responsibilities of an HP-UX system and network administrator HP-UX fundamentals: files/directories, environment variables, I/O, regular expressions, permissions, and more Basic and advanced shell programming Working with the System Administration Manager (SAM) Installation, startup/shutdown, LVM, user/group management, and processes Backup and recovery, step by step Configuring and managing HP-UX printing and peripherals Using AutoFS, NFS, SAMBA, and automount Installing and managing software Patch management, kernel reconfiguration, memory and swap space management Dynamic kernel configuration with DLKM and DTKP Start-to-finish network administration coverage: TCP/IP, DNS, NIS, NFS, and more Sample questions, last-minute review tips, and other study resources Already administering HP-UX systems? Planning to? Migrating from other UNIX platforms? Whatever your background, this book will prepare you for the realities of HP-UX administrationoand for the CSA exam that will recognize your skills.
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 The "Official" CSA exam study guide is insufficient for passing the CSA exam April 4, 2008
I agree with other reviewers that not everything on the exam is covered in this book, but since it claims to be the OFFICIAL CSA exam prep guide, I take a harsher stand. The label "official" raises the expectations on what to expect from this book, and at a minimum one expects an overview of exam contents.
However, knowing well the informational content of this, the official guide to the CSA exam, is insufficient for passing the CSA exam, and I find that inexcusable. There is substantial content covered by the exam that is outright missing from the Rehman book. You will find NOTHING on the subjects of partitioning, server hardware offerings, high availability, or Ignite, and you WILL be tested on them. If you bought the Rehman book expecting to know what's on the exam, you have been misled and will probably fail.
The book desperately needs a revision, and if the omissions are not corrected, the misleading label "official" needs to be removed.
If you want to purchase a CSA exam guide with the intentions of passing the CSA exam, I recommend the "HP-UX Certified Systems Administrator Training Guide and Administrator's Reference", 2nd edition, by Asghar Ghori, ISBN 978-1-4243-4231-0. The content closely tracks the overview of CSA exam contents that is found on the HP Education site. The book is current up to HP-UX 11iv3 and the Integrity servers.
 Poor print quality August 6, 2007
Book arrived in a timely fashion, however, 90% of the book has the pages printed on an angle. It appears none of the data was cut off, but it does make reading akward.
 Excellent Book for Unix Administration March 8, 2007
Excellent Book, Complete reference, From Beginners to Intermediate,
Thanks Rafeeq UR Rehman
HPUX January 4, 2007
This is great product. The ordering process as well as well as the delivery was great.
Great book -- NOT for cramming June 6, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book to be very informative and helpful with the quizzes and study break exercises. However, I believe you will be disappointed if you want this to be a "show me what's on the exam" book. You'll learn a lot more from this book than is asked on the exam, IMHO.
I passed the exam today and honestly believe that there was so much more that could have been tested. The book explains how things work; the exam doesn't really seem to care. That's about as much detail as I can get into.
I will definitely use this book as a desk reference for the forseeable future. Be sure to check the website for error corrections if you plan to take the exam.
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