Sun Delays Solaris 8 Certs 'Til February; Releases Details on Program Changes

January 25, 2001 - Sun recently announced that it would delay the introduction of new S olaris8 the certification examination until next February.

Examinations scheduled to live, month. There is no reason to delay the companys Web site. However, Sun did not release more details of how the upcoming Solaris 8 certification procedures will work.

According to the Sun Web site, there will be three options under Solaris 8: "composed of two parts, the" Solar System Administrator certification of Solaris on the 8th examination .

A single network administrators certification Sun Solaris on the 8th examination.

First ever Sun system administrator certification examination for the promotion.

In addition, the sun will no longer allow candidates mix-and-match different versions of the Solaris certification examination system administrator (for example, a version 7 and Article 8 for examinations). Once the new test has been released, the system administrator candidates must take either the two versions on the 8th examination, or to become certified on the Solaris 7, and then take upgrade examinations, in order to become certified in August.

Upgrade examination will be only six months. Goal, and it 8 version of the remaining test has not yet been released, but you can find more about the format of the examination and classroom training options in http://suned.sun.com/usa/certification / soe8faq.html.

Solaris is Suns "business environment" UNIX. For more information on Solaris visit http://www.sun.com.

-b.n.