Solaris 9 Sun Certified System Administrator Study Guide

A file system that acts as a temporary holding area for data located on slow or remote file systems. CacheFS speeds up the performance of your computer if you access network resources or slow CD-ROM drives.

Actively placing files into CacheFS to speed up performance, as opposed to waiting for the files to be accessed and then placed into CacheFS.

Also called a workstation, a client is a computer on the network that users work from. Clients typically request information from servers.

The Solaris software interface in which you type commands in order to execute them.

The default graphical user interface provided with Solaris 9.

A file generated when an application or a process terminates abnormally. Used in troubleshooting.

The contents of physical memory, dumped into two files, when the operating system experiences a fatal crash.

A file containing programs that need to be run on a routine schedule, such as backups or system maintenance programs.

A Solaris installation and upgrade program that enables an administrator to customize a specific software configuration and to install that configuration on other computers with little to no human intervention.

On a hard disk, all of the tracks, on all platters, a specific distance from the center spindle.