What are your thoughts on the Sun Certified Solaris Associate (SCSAS) certification? Is it worth the effort or should I just by pass this and go straight into the Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) certification?
It depends on your knowledge regarding Linux/Unix commang line (creating catalogs, editting files with Vi, etc). If you are on really beginning level at this then you should probably take SCSAS first.
for Solaris , certification is expensive but it worth every penny 
if you learn System V you can easily administrate Linux
Not really a beginner but not quite admin level.
There is more just to SCSA. That alone can't get you a good job.
See the list of topics for SCSA here:
Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
and see how familiar you are with these topics, and then you can decide.
If you can afford it, I suggest you take a SUN training course, it's really useful 
Good luck !
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I also want to pass SCSA exam so we can create something like study group to prepare for exam...