The Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris (or SCSA), the oldest of Sun's certifications, concentrates on in depth knolwedge of the Solaris OS including knowledge of basic UNIX and Solaris OS commands management of file systems, system boot and shutdown, software install, user creation and administration, security, network printers and system processes, and system backups and restores. The test covers topics of system administration for SPARC, x64, and x86 based systems. The certification requires passing score on two separate tests, Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 OS, Part I, (exam number 310-200), and Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 OS, Part II, (exam number 310-202). The certification is targeted at System Administrators working in technical positions in the Solaris OS.

This certification is for system administrators tasked with performing essential system administration procedures on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and technical application support staff responsible for administering a networked server running on the Solaris OS.
Sun offers certifications for the Solaris 8, 9 and 10 OS, each consisting of two exams. Candidates must pass both part I and part II exams of the same Solaris OS version in order to obtain certification.

If you are already certified as a system administrator for a previous version of the Solaris Operating System, you can take the upgrade exam for the version of the Solaris of interest to you.