Oracle Solaris PreSales Specialist Assessment

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This 60 - question assessment test is the final component of the Oracle Solaris PreSales Specia

Market Definition
(Answer all questions in this section)
1. What workload drives the most Unix-based server revenue?

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ERP (*)
Web Serving
Security
CRM

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2. Based on customers data, Oracle Solaris is used across all workloads.

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True (*)
False

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3. Which industries have the highest rate of Unix server adoption?

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Retail and Education

Government and Manufacturing
Education and Manufacturing
Healthcare and Communications (*)

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Market Trends
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4. What are the key challenges faced by organizations in the financial services
industry?

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Regulation & compliance, security, insider trading, and cost containment
Security, data management, and mergers & acquisitions
Cost containment, mergers & acquisitions, sub-prime loans, and
systems availability
Regulation & compliance, channel optimization, new product
development, and cost containment (*)
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5. Analytics will be a critical opportunity in the healthcare industry

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True (*)
False

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Market Trends
(Answer all questions in this section)
6. Which of the following is a
customer requirement
that is applicable across
most industries?
High services to

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product ratio
Optimize ARPU
Maximize asset
utilization (*)
Improve transaction
throughput
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Target Customer
(Answer all questions in this section)
7. What features of Oracle
Solaris would system
administrators care most
about? (select all that
apply)
(Choose all correct
answers)

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Predictive self
healing simplifies
administration (*)
DTrace allows
administrators to quickly
resolve issues (*)
Oracle Solaris is
included at no cost with
Oracle hardware
Existing scripts,
policies, and procedures
continue to work (*)
Correct
8. What features of Oracle
Solaris do developer
appreciate most? (select
all that apply)
(Choose all correct
answers)

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Binary and source

compatibility across x86
and SPARC (*)
Trusted Extensions
removes the need to
create secure code
Guarantee that code
developed today will run
on future OS upgrades (*)
Predictive self
healing hides coding
mistakes
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9. What customer profile(s)
provides the best chance
of Oracle Solaris
adoption?
(Choose all correct
answers)
Customers that are
considered "Windows
shops"
Customers with
existing Unix or Linux
administrators (*)

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Customers that value

enterprise-grade support
(*)
Enterprise-level
customers (*)
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10.Why is CIO support
critical for operating
system adoption within an
organization?
Most CIOs have

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Solaris certifications
The CIO chairs or
heavily influences
corporate standards
boards (*)
The CIO is
concerned about license
costs, and will support
most technologies that
are free
The CIO is not a
critical decision maker for
operating system
adoption
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Target Customer
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11.Why would the CFO of an
organization care about Oracle
Solaris? (select all that apply)
(Choose all correct answers)
Oracle Solaris offers a lower
TCO than the competition (*)
CFOs do not care about
operating system adoption
Oracle Solaris administrators
are 5x more productive than AIX
or HP-UX administrators
Oracle Solaris enables higher
utilization of existing assets (*)
Correct

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Product Overview
(Answer all questions in this section)
12.Secure-by-default means?

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Solaris binaries are digitally

signed
Oracle Solaris is unbreakable
and free of security vulnerabilities
Customers can grant
individual access or process rights
to running programs
A new installation of Solaris
has all of the typical access points
into a system locked down (*)
Correct
13.Predictive self healing

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Is available on both Oracle

Solaris and Oracle Linux
Self-diagnoses and isolates
faulty components (*)
Delivers "19 nines" of system
availability
Prevents data corruption, bit
rot, and tampering
Correct
14.What are the two most critical
features of ZFS?

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Performance and mixedmedia use

Data integrity and security (*)
Snapshots and cloning

Flash storage support and

data protection
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15.Oracle Solaris Containers is
recognized as a hard partition for
Oracle software licensing.

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True (*)
False

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Product Overview
(Answer all questions in this section)
16.Which tool allows customers to
troubleshoot systemic problems in real
time?

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ZFS
Solaris Fault Manager
MCAT
DTrace (*)

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17.Oracle VM Server is an operatingsystem level virtualization technology
in Oracle Solaris.

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True
False (*)

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18.Which Oracle Solaris features help
improve asset utilization? (select all
that apply)
(Choose all correct answers)
DTrace optimization (*)
Built-in virtualization (*)

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Trusted Extensions
File verification

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19.The Oracle Solaris Application
Guarantee Program provides what
benefit to customers?

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Guarantees that all applications

will run unmodified on Oracle Solaris
Provides lifetime support for
applications running on Oracle Solaris
Protects a customer's investment
in applications (*)
Reduces customer's cost by
supporting open source software
running on Oracle Solaris
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20.Solaris scales up to 128 sockets and
hundreds of threads.

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True
False (*)

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Product Overview
(Answer all questions in this section)
21.ZFS is the world's first 64-bit file system.

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True
False (*)

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Positioning
(Answer all questions in this section)

22.Virtualization capabilities are an additional

charge for IBM (AIX) and HP (HP-UX).

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True (*)
False

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23.IBM charges for AIX.

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True (*)
False

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24.Like Oracle Solaris, HP-UX is free.

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True
False (*)

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25.Which features help support the positioning
of Oracle Solaris to customers with high
availability and reliability requirements?
(select all that apply)

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(Choose all correct answers)

Oracle Solaris Cluster (*)
DTrace
Predictive self healing (*)
Solaris Containers

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Positioning
(Answer all questions in this section)
26.Customers can reduce costs and simplify their
infrastructure by adopting Oracle Solaris for
both their x86 and SPARC-based server
platforms.

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True (*)
False

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27.Why should you position Oracle Solaris for use
with Oracle software (e.g., database)? (select all
that apply)

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The optimization of Oracle software running
on Solaris delivers superior performance,
reliability, and security (*)
Because Larry Ellison said so
The growth of Oracle Solaris adoption will
eliminate the need for Oracle Linux
Oracle Solaris is the #1 deployment
platform for the Oracle database (*)
Correct
28.Which feature helps support the positioning of
Oracle Solaris to customers looking to maximize
their asset utilization?

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Trusted Extensions
Oracle VM Server
Solaris Fault Manager
Containers (*)

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Objections
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29.A customer states that there are no applications
available for Solaris - other than Oracle
applications. How should you respond?
Oracle applications have significant market
shares, and represent a majority of the
application needs of most customers.

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Oracle Solaris supports the applications of

the top ISV vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracle,
IBM, and SAP.
There are thousands upon thousands of
applications supported on Solaris 10 - more
than AIX, HP-UX, and Red Hat combined. (*)
There are thousands of applications
supported on Solaris 10. Customers can use
Solaris 8 or 9 if they need additional application
support.
Correct
30.Solaris is expensive. How do you counter this
objection?

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The license fees for Oracle Solaris are

offset by the value of its features
All Oracle hardware includes a free trial
license of Oracle Solaris
All Oracle hardware includes an Oracle
Solaris license at no additional charge (*)
The license fees for Oracle Solaris are
comparable to AIX and HP-UX
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Objections
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31.The same Oracle Solaris code base is used for both
x86 and SPARC-based platforms.

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True (*)
False

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32.Oracle Solaris only runs on SPARC.

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True
False (*)

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33.No one uses Solaris. How do you counter this

objection? (select all that apply)

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90% of the Fortune 100 run Solaris (*)
Solaris has over 12 million registered licenses
(*)
Oracle Solaris is used by the Vatican
Oracle runs Oracle Solaris

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34.Solaris administrators are expensive and hard to
find. How do you counter this objection? (select all
that apply)

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(Choose all correct answers)

Oracle University certifies thousands of
administrators (*)
Solaris administrators have proven over time to
deliver 5x productivity over Red Hat and Microsoft
administrators
Oracle University has courses available to train
and certify your existing administrators (*)
Solaris administrators cost the same as Red Hat
or AIX administrators (*)
Incorrect. Refer to the Oracle Solaris
Objections training for more information.

Containers
(Answer all questions in this section)
35.Which feature allow you to guarantee minimum and
maximum amounts of system resources?

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Fair Share Scheduler

Dynamic Domains
Dynamic Resource Pools (*)

Process Rights Management

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Containers
(Answer all questions in this section)
36.Oracle Solaris Containers consist of.? (select all that
apply)

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(Choose all correct answers)

Resource management, which allocated resources to
virtual environments (*)
Zones, which is partitioning technology (*)
V2M management console, which manages
Container environments
User rights management, which controls user access
to Containers
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37.The global zone is the default zone for the system and
the zone used for system-wide administrative control.

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True (*)
False

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38.Using the Fair Share Scheduler, project A has been
allocated 1 share, while project B has been allocated 2
shares. Therefore, project B is entitled to twice the
amount of CPU resources as project A.

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True (*)
False

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39.A maximum of 8,192 zones are possible on a single
system. What determines the actual number that can be
effectively hosted on a single system?
The number of total users using the system
The amount of L2 cache

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The total resource requirements of the application

software running in all of the zones (*)
The overall number of PCI cards supported by the
server
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40.Zones ___________. (select all that apply)

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Can have an exclusive IP (*)
Require a dedicated CPU or portion of physical
memory
Can have network services (*)
Can be configured as shared IP (*)

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Containers
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41.A process assigned to a zone can?

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Manipulate, monitor, and directly communicate with

processes that are assigned to the same zone and to
processes that are assigned to other zones
Manipulate, monitor, and directly communicate with other
processes that are assigned to the same zone (*)
Manipulate, monitor, and directly communicate with
processes that are assigned to the same zone, to processes
that are assigned to other zones, and to processes that are
not assigned to a zone
Only monitor processes that are not assigned to a zone

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42.A customer is interested in moving to the SPARC T3 server
with Solaris 10, but unwilling to recertify their existing Solaris 8
applications on Solaris 10. What can you recommend?
Capped Containers

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Oracle Application Migration Services

Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers (*)
Containers cloning capability

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DTrace
(Answer all questions in this section)
43.What is a predicate in a D Script?

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A way to control when and if a probe fires

A way to format output data collected by the probe
A way to limit the collection of data based on conditions
that must be true when the probe fires (*)
A way to accelerate the collection of data by allocating a
predetermined set of CPU resources to the probe
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44.What is the output of "# dtrace -l"?

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A list of probes available for instrumentation

For each probe, the provider, module, function, and name
are displayed (*)
A list of providers available for instrumentation
For each consumer, the providers and probes are
displayed
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45.Aggregations allow data to be aggregated before outputting.

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True (*)
False

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DTrace
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46.DTrace providers are points of instrumentation in the Solaris 10
kernel.

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True
False (*)

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47.To eliminate production risk, DTrace does not allow which of the
following constructs? (select all that apply)

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(Choose all correct answers)

Queries
Loops (*)
Probes
Pointers (*)

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48.D Scripts turn on probes, and collects and processes the
information.

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True (*)
False

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49.A probe 4-tuple is comprised of which components?

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Consumer, module, probe, name

Provider, module, function, name (*)
Probe, module, function, name
Provider, consumer, probe, name

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Security PD
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50.Process rights management _________? (select all that apply)

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Eliminates the need to run applications as super user (*)
Is off by default
Is always turned on (*)
Requires only minor modification to existing applications

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Security PD
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51. Solaris password management works with LDAP-based password
controls.

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True (*)
False

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52. Which statements are true with regard to the Solaris Cryptographic
Framework? (select all that apply)

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It protects network services (*)
Supports common APIs, such as PKCS#11, NSS, OpenSSL (*)
Applications must be rewritten to take full advantage of the
cryptographic APIs
It verifies the authenticity of Solaris binaries

Correct
53. With Solaris, customers can audit anything that occurs on the operating
system.

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True (*)
False

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54. How does the Basic Audit and Reporting Tool (BART) work?

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Relies on ZFS to prevent data corruption and tampering

Relies on system probes to monitor and track changes to system
binaries or data
Allows administrators to generate checksums of their system data
and compare them over time (*)
Allows administrators to use heuristics to determines changes to
system data
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55. User rights management supports an anonymous admin role.

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True
False (*)

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Security PD
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56.TCP Wrappers allow selective access to ports based on IP addresses.

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True
False (*)

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Predictive Self Healing

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57.The primary role of the Solaris Fault Manager is to?

Collect and store telemetry data for analysis

Manage the deployment of fault agents
Automate the restart of failed applications
Diagnose, predict, and repair (*)

Correct
58.In predictive self healing, agents are capable of which of the following? (select
all that apply)
(Choose all correct answers)
Taking a CPU offline (*)
Retiring memory pages (*)
Complex data analysis of telemetry data
Restarting applications

Correct
59.What is the SUNW-MSG-ID used for, when reported in a fault diagnosis
message?
It is the UUID for a particular problem diagnosis
It is a legacy Sun message and no longer used
It is the system serial number
It is used to access the corresponding knowledge article on Oracle's web
site (*)
Correct
60.The Solaris Service Manager is responsible for restarting failed services
automatically, and in order of dependency.
True (*)
False

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