Audience
Database Administrators System Administrators Network Administrators Technical Support Professionals. Participants should have taken Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus: Basic SELECT Statements (61110) Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus: Data Retrieval Techniques (61111) Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus: DML and DDL (61112) Oracle PL/SQL: Basics (60113) Oracle8i Database Administration: Manage an Instance (63311). This course will help candidates prepare for the Oracle8i Certified DBA Architecture and Administration exam 1Z0-023.
Objective
- Identify and create a database.
- Identify the data dictionary views.
- Identify the data dictionary views to retrieve information.
- Identify the scripts to set up the PL/SQL environment.
- Identify control files
- Identify redo log files
- Identify tablespaces and data files.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Creating a Database: Procedure
- Identify the guidelines for creating an OFA structure.
- Match the ORACLE_HOME subdirectories with their contents.
- Identify the factors to be considered when creating a database.
- Identify the requirements for creating a database.
- Identify the guidelines to be followed for planning a physical database design.
- Identify the steps involved in manually creating a database.
- Identify the registry entries that have to be specified for proper database functionality.
- Create a specified password file for a given instance by using the ORADIM80 utility.
- Create a specified parameter file by editing specific settings in the default init.ora file.
- Start a specified instance in the NOMOUNT mode by using Oracle SQL*Plus Worksheet.
- Identify the functionality of the CREATE DATABASE command options.
- Create a database with specified parameter values by using the CREATE DATABASE command.
- Identify the commonly encountered situations in which the CREATE DATABASE command fails.
- Identify the contents of a database after its creation.
Unit 2: Data Dictionary Views and Standard Packages
- Identify the types of information stored in the data dictionary.
- Identify the features of the data dictionary components.
- Create a data dictionary view for a specific database by executing the appropriate script.
- Identify the contents of the data dictionary view categories.
- Retrieve specific information by querying the Dictionary view.
- Create PL/SQL functionality for a specific database by executing the appropriate script.
- Match the administrative script categories with the views and package components they create.
- Identify the properties of stored procedures.
- Identify the properties of packages.
- Identify the benefits of stored program units.
- Match the Oracle-supplied packages with their functions.
- Retrieve information about invalid objects in a specified database by querying the required data dictionary view.
- Retrieve information about a stored program unit specification by using the Oracle SQL*Plus Worksheet.
- Identify the common situations when dependent objects may have an invalid status.
Unit 3: Maintaining Redo Log Files and Control Files
- Identify the functions of a control file.
- Identify the types of information stored in a control file.
- Identify the dynamic performance views and the information they contain about the control files.
- Multiplex a control file.
- Identify the uses of redo log groups.
- Identify the features of redo log members in a group.
- Match the parameters that limit the number of online redo log files with what they determine.
- Identify the situations in which a log switch occurs.
- Force a log switch by using Oracle Backup Manager.
- Identify the activities that are performed during a checkpoint.
- Force a checkpoint by using Oracle Backup Manager.
- Identify the functions of the initialization parameters that can be set to control database checkpoints.
- Identify the features of archive modes.
- Identify the command and dynamic performance views with the information they contain about the log and archive status of a database.
- Identify the dynamic performance views and the information they contain about online redo log groups and members.
- Add a redo log group by using Oracle Backup Manager.
- Add a online redo log member to a redo log group by using Oracle Backup Manager.
- Relocate the online redo log file by using Oracle SQL*Plus Worksheet.
- Drop an online redo log group by using Oracle Backup Manager.
- Drop a online redo log member by using Oracle Backup Manager.
- Reinitialize an online redo log file by using Oracle SQL*Plus Worksheet.
- Identify the factors to be considered while planning for the number of online redo log files.
- Identify the reasons for storing the online redo log files on different disks.
- Identify the factors that influence the sizing of the online redo log files.
- Identify the Log Writer (LGWR) errors and effects when specific online redo log members are not available.
- Identify the possible LGWR errors with their solutions.
Unit 4: Managing Tablespaces and Data Files
- Identify the logical database structure.
- Identify the components of the logical and physical structure of a database.
- Identify the relationships between database components.
- Identify the features of a tablespace.
- Identify the uses of a tablespace.
- Identify the features of a datafile.
- Differentiate between the types of tablespaces.
- Create a specified tablespace by using Oracle Storage Manager.
- Identify the segment storage allocation parameters and what they determine.
- Create a temporary tablespace by using Oracle Storage Manager.
- Add a datafile to a tablespace by using the Oracle Storage Manager.
- Enable automatic extension of a datafile in a tablespace by using Oracle Storage Manager.
- Resize a datafile by using Oracle SQL Worksheet.
- Change the values of the storage parameters by using Oracle Storage Manager.
- Identify the features of the modes in which a tablespace can be taken offline.
- Take a tablespace offline by using Oracle Storage Manager.
- Move a datafile of the Non-SYSTEM tablespace by using Oracle SQL*Plus Worksheet.
- Move a datafile belonging to the SYSTEM tablespace by using Oracle SQL*Plus Worksheet.
- Make a tablespace read-only by using Oracle Storage Manager.
- Sequence the steps to create a read-only tablespace on a read-only media.
- Drop a tablespace by using Oracle Storage Manager.
- Identify the effects of dropping a tablespace.
- Identify the benefits of using multiple tablespaces.
- Identify the benefits of specifying storage parameters for a tablespace.
- Identify the dynamic performance views and the information they contain.
Duration
8
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
Media
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