I have just passed the exam 310-043 today and got passed. I used this book and also the Sun Solaris Certification Exam Practice Web-based course. This book is written in a very clear manner. Each chapter brings up the most essential of the subject without loosing the reader's time with unnecessary details. The software is very usefull because it is a simulation of the actual exam. However if you only rely on this book you cannot pass the exam because it covers only 80% of the subjects.
Here are some missing topics:
- At the exam, the terminology direct and indirect routing is used. In this book there is no explanation about them. At least two exam questions were asking about these two different routing methods.
- At the exam, there were some questions about what can you do with SMC (Sun Management Center). In this book the word SMC is not mentioned at all.
- DNS: there is no explanation how to debug a DNS server except using the nslookup. In SUN answerbook you can read that there are two commands (dig and pkill -INT). This was also a question of the exam.
- I wish the chapter 5 (DHCP) was written in a more complete and clear manner. More examples and more detailed explanations would increase the quality of this chapter.
There are other topics which were not covered in this book. However, in my opinion this book remains one of the best written books on Solaris Networking currently on the market. You just need another source of information (book or online-course) to pass successfully the exam.
Good luck !