HP Certified Professional
HP-UX System Administration
Exam # HP0-091
Exam Preparation Guide
Purpose of the exam prep guide
The intent of this guide is to set your expectations about the content and the
context of the exam, and to help you prepare for the exam by providing the
following items:
• recommended HP training courses
• outline of the topics covered by the exam
• sample test questions. These sample questions do not represent a
complete practice exam.
Studies show that a combination of course attendance and self-study
maximizes the likelihood of passing an exam on the first attempt.
Audience
System and network administrators, system integrators, support engineers, and
technical consultants. These professionals are expected to have an
intermediate-level knowledge of and at least one year of hands-on experience
with HP-UX.
Certification Requirements
The HP-UX System Administration Exam # HP0-091 is the core requirement
to be certified as Certified Systems Administrator (CSA). Visit the HP
Certified Professional website for additional information,
www.hp.com/go/certification.
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Prerequisites
There are no formal pre-requisites for this exam. Intermediate-level
knowledge of and at least one year of hands-on experience with HP-UX is
expected. Attendance at the HP training courses listed below is highly
recommended.
Exam details
At the beginning of the exam, you will be asked to answer several survey
questions. The survey questions are designed to assist the exam development
team to accurately profile test results and to improve future exams.
The following are details about the exam:
Number of items: 75
Item types: multiple choice, multiple response, drag and drop
Time commitment: 105 minutes
Passing Score: 64%
Reference Material: No online or hard copy reference material will be
allowed at the testing site.
Comments on the exam
During the exam, participants can make specific comments about the items
(i.e., accuracy, appropriateness to audience, etc). HP welcomes these
comments as part of our continuous improvement process. Comment time is
included in the overall time for taking the exam. We suggest you mark the
questions you want to comment on, and then when done with the test, revisit
the marked items and make comments. This way if time runs out, you will not
be compromising your score.
Exam content
The following topics and testing objectives represent the specific areas of
content covered in the exam. Use this outline to guide your study and to check
your readiness for the exam. The exam measures your understanding of these
areas. The percentages in parentheses indicate the relative percentage of the
exam devoted to each objective.
1. Describe and explain the architecture and structure of HP-UX and its
foundational technologies (10%)
a. HP-UX OS architecture
b. Major hardware components found in HP’s current systems
c. Features and benefits of HP’s currently supported PCI bus types.
d. Differences and compatibilities between common SCSI
technologies.
e. Features and benefits of HP disk management solutions.
f. HP-UX file systems and their use.
g. Significance of basic LVM concepts and structure.
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h. Significance of basic VxVM concepts and structure
2. Describe the HP-UX user environment and demonstrate the use of
basic commands and utilities (25%)
a. Login and logout of an HP-UX system
b. Navigate the CDE GUI interface
c. Determine basic information about a system.
d. Execute HP-UX commands from the command line.
e. Manage and manipulate files and directories.
f. Define and describe the attributes of basic system components.
g. Demonstrate the tools and techniques used to identify, monitor,
and terminate programs and processes.
h. Identify and explain how and when to used advanced shell
features.
i. Describe and demonstrate how to communicate with system users.
j. Describe when and how to access basic network services.
3. Perform HP-UX system administration and operational tasks using
command line and GUI tools (25%)
a. Boot, reboot and shutdown an HP-UX system or partition.
b. Connect and configure HP-UX hardware.
c. Describe, configure, and manage HP-UX device files.
d. Configure and manage disks and partitions.
e. Maintain file and file system integrity and design.
f. Backup and recover data on an HP-UX system.
g. Create and manage swap space.
h. Create and manage user/group environments.
i. Describe print spooling and its use.
j. Describe common areas of performance bottlenecks.
k. Describe SYS-V IPC services and their use.
l. Describe SAM and its use.
m. Describe system startup model and its use.
n. Describe chroot and its use.
o. Describe /etc/default and its use.
p. Monitor system activity and events.
Perform HP-UX system network administration tasks (22%)
a. Describe MAC addressing and its use.
b. Describe IP addressing and its use.
c. Describe NIC and its use.
d. Enable DHCP for NIC address configuration.
e. Check local connectivity to a known neighbor by IP or by MAC
(Station or Ether) address.
f. Describe set_parms and its use.
g. Describe common network configuration files and their use.
h. Describe network monitor utilities and their use.
i. Describe and configure HP-UX routing.
j. Configure and monitor network services.
k. Describe CIFS/9000 (SAMBA) and its use.
l. Describe the ONC suite of network services and their use.
m. Describe DNS and its use.
n. Describe sendmail and its use as a MTA and MDA.
o. Describe ntp and its use.
p. Describe other tools to monitor network utilization.
5. Perform HP-UX installation, upgrade, and recovery tasks (8%)
a. Perform and HP-UX installation from local installation media.
b. Perform a software/patch installation from a software distribution
depot server.
c. Configure a software distribution depot server.
d. Install HP-UX patches.
e. Describe the features and benefits of Ignite-UX and install and
configure an Ignite-UX server.
f. Describe and use system recovery options.
6. Perform HP-UX security administration tasks (10%)
a. Cite user-level security settings.
b. Describe trusted system and its use.
c. Describe password creation options and their use.
d. Describe how to implement system access restrictions.
e. Describe common system security concerns.
f. Describe ssh and its use.
g. Describe PAM and its use.
h. Describe available security tools.
i. Describe common administrative security tasks.
j. Explain how various network architectures/features can affect a
system security policy.