The Oracle 1Z0-820 exam validates your ability to upgrade and manage Oracle Solaris 11 systems as an experienced administrator. This certification is designed for IT professionals who have worked with earlier Solaris versions and need to demonstrate competency with Solaris 11's new features, tools, and administration practices. Passing this exam qualifies you within the Oracle Partner Network and strengthens your credentials for system administration roles. This page maps the exam syllabus, explains question formats, and guides your preparation strategy so you study efficiently and build confidence before test day.
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The 1Z0-820 exam uses multiple question types to assess both foundational knowledge and practical decision-making in real-world administration scenarios. Questions progress in difficulty and require you to apply concepts across interconnected system domains.
Later questions integrate multiple topics, for instance, combining zone administration with network configuration or ZFS management with security policies, to reflect how these systems interact in production.
An effective study routine maps each topic to weekly milestones, allowing time for hands-on practice and review cycles. Allocate 4-6 weeks for thorough preparation, with emphasis on areas where you have less prior experience. Consistent practice with realistic questions and scenario analysis builds both speed and accuracy.
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Zone administration, ZFS management, and package management typically account for a larger share of exam questions because they are central to daily Solaris 11 system administration. Security enhancements and network configuration also appear frequently. Allocate study time proportionally and ensure you can handle scenario questions that combine these domains.
In practice, these topics overlap constantly. For example, when deploying a new application, you might install Solaris 11, create a zone for isolation, configure its network interface, provision ZFS storage with quotas, and apply security policies, all in one workflow. Understanding these connections helps you answer integrated scenario questions and troubleshoot multi-layer issues effectively.
Hands-on experience is valuable for building confidence and muscle memory with commands and tools. Prioritize labs for zone creation and management, ZFS pool operations, and package repository configuration, as these require procedural knowledge that is difficult to grasp from reading alone. If lab access is limited, focus on command syntax and common troubleshooting workflows through detailed practice questions.
Many candidates confuse IPS package commands with older Solaris packaging tools, miss subtle differences in zone resource control options, or misunderstand ZFS snapshot and clone behavior. Others rush through scenario questions without fully reading the context, leading to incorrect choices. Slow down, re-read each question, and verify your answer against the specific scenario details before moving on.
In the final week, take a full-length practice test under timed conditions and review every incorrect answer to understand why you missed it. Skim summary notes on high-confidence topics to stay sharp, but spend most time on weak areas. On the day before the exam, do light review only, focus on rest and mental preparation rather than cramming new material.
Which three options describe the purpose of the zonep2vchk command?
zonep2vchk
- check a global zone's configuration for physical to virtual migration into non-global zone
Thezonep2vchkutility is used to evaluate a global zone's configuration before the process of physical-to-virtual (p2v) migration into a non-global zone.
The p2v process involves archiving a global zone (source), and then installing a non-global zone (target) using that archive
zonep2vchkserves two functions. First, it can be used to report issues on the source which might prevent a successfulp2vmigration. Second, it can output a templatezonecfg, which can be used to assist in configuring the non-global zone target.
zonep2vchkcan be executed on a Solaris 10 or later global zone. To execute on Solaris 10, copy thezonep2vchkutility to the Solaris 10 source global zone.
When run on Solaris 10, a target release ofS11can be specified, which will check forp2vinto a Solaris 10 Branded zone.
You are going to use the- Automated installer (AI) to install a non global zone named zone1. You have created a custom manifest for the non-global zone and named it zone1manifest
Which command will you use to add this custom manifest to the s11-sparc install service and associate this custom manifest with the non-global zone?
installadm add-manifest
Associates manifests with a specific install
service, thus making the manifests available on
the network, independently from creating a
service. When publishing a non-default manifest,
it is required to associate criteria either via
criteria entered on the command line (-c) or
via a criteria XML file (-C).
Incorrect answers:
C: installadm create-client
Accomplishes optional setup tasks for a specified
client, in order to provide custom client
settings that vary from the default settings used
by the installadm create-service command.
D: installadm create-service
Creates an install service.
The command provides the following functionality:
- Takes an AI ISO image (<srcimage>), unpacks it,
and sets up a net image in a target directory
(<targetdir>. The net image enables client
installations.
- Creates an install service and makes it
available on the network.
The rctladm command reports the following:
# rctladm |grep task.max.lwps task.max-lwps syslog=notice [ count 1
Which of the following correctly describes the system configuration?
A change in your company's security policy now requires an audit trial of all administrators assuming the sysadm role, capturing:
Executed commands, including options
Logins and logouts
There are two command necessary to accomplish this change. One is a rolemod command. What is the other?
Audit Significant Events in Addition to Login/Logout (see step 2 below)
Use this procedure to audit administrative commands, attempts to invade the system, and other significant events as specified by your site security policy.
Audit all uses of privileged commands by users and roles.
For all users and roles, add the AUE_PFEXEC audit event to their preselection mask.
# usermod -K audit_flags=lo,ps:no username
# rolemod -K audit_flags=lo,ps:no rolename
Record the arguments to audited commands.
# auditconfig -setpolicy +argv
3- Record the environment in which audited commands are executed.
# auditconfig -setpolicy +arge
Note: [-t] -setpolicy [+|-]policy_flag[,policy_flag ...]
Set the kernel audit policy. A policy policy_flag is literal strings that denotes an audit policy. A prefix of + adds the policies specified to the current audit policies. A prefix of - removes the policies specified from the current audit policies. No policies can be set from a local zone unless the perzone policy is first set from the global zone.
Incorrect answers:
A: No subcommand set policy.
C: -setflags audit_flags
Set the default user audit preselection flags; see audit_flags(5). The default preselection flags are combined with the user's specific audit flags to form the user's audit preselection mask.
D: No subcommand set flags.
For an Oracle Solaris 11 Automated Installation (Al), select the two properties that can be configured using System Configuration profiles (SC profiles). (Choose two.)
