Exploring the Oracle Database Architecture

• Oracle Database Architecture Overview
• Oracle ASM Architecture Overview
• Process Architecture
• Memory structrues
• Logical and physical storage structures
• ASM storage components

Installing your Oracle Software

• Tasks of an Oracle Database Administrator
• Tools Used to Administer an Oracle Database
• Installation: System Requirements
• Oracle Universal Installer (OUI)
• Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure
• Installing Oracle Database Software
• Silent Install

Creating an Oracle Database

• Planning the Database
• Using the DBCA to Create a Database
• Password Management
• Creating a Database Design Template
• Using the DBCA to Delete a Database

Managing the Oracle Database Instance

• Start and stop the Oracle database and components
• Use Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Access a database with SQLPlus
• Modify database installation parameters
• Describe the stages of database startup
• Describe database shutdown options
• View the alert log
• Access dynamic performance views

Manage the ASM Instance

• Set up initialization parameter files for ASM instance
• Start up and shut down ASM instances
• Administer ASM disk group

Configuring the Oracle Network Environment

• Use Enterprise Manager to create and configure the listener
• Enable Oracle Restart to monitor the listener
• Use tnsping to test Oracle Net connectivity
• Identify when to use shared servers and when to use dedicated servers

Managing Database Storage Structures

• Storage Structures
• How Table Data Is Stored
• Anatomy of a Database Block
• Space Management in Tablespaces
• Tablespaces in the Preconfigured Database
• Actions with Tablespaces
• Oracle Managed Files (OMF)

Administering User Security

• Database User Accounts
• Predefined Administrative Accounts
• Benefits of Roles
• Predefined Roles
• Implementing Profiles

Managing Data Concurrency

• Data Concurrency
• Enqueue Mechanism
• Resolving Lock Conflicts
• Deadlocks

Managing Undo Data

• Data Manipulation
• Transactions and Undo Data
• Undo Data Versus Redo Data
• Configuring Undo Retention

Implementing Oracle Database Auditing

• Describe DBA responsibilities for security
• Enable standard database auditing
• Specify audit options
• Review audit information
• Maintain the audit trail

Database Maintenance

• Manage optimizer statistics
• Manage the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)
• Use the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)
• Describe and use the advisory framework
• Set alert thresholds
• Use server-generated alerts
• Use automated tasks

Performance Management

• Performance Monitoring
• Managing Memory Components
• Enabling Automatic Memory Management (AMM)
• Automatic Shared Memory Advisor
• Using Memory Advisors
• Dynamic Performance Statistics
• Troubleshooting and Tuning Views
• Invalid and Unusable Objects

Backup and Recovery Concepts

• Part of Your Job
• Statement Failure
• User Error
• Understanding Instance Recovery
• Phases of Instance Recovery
• Using the MTTR Advisor
• Media Failure
• Archive Log Files

Performing Database Backups

• Backup Solutions: Overview
• Oracle Secure Backup
• User-Managed Backup
• Terminology
• Recovery Manager (RMAN)
• Configuring Backup Settings
• Backing Up the Control File to a Trace File
• Monitoring the Flash Recovery Area

Performing Database Recovery

• Opening a Database
• Data Recovery Advisor
• Loss of a Control File
• Loss of a Redo Log File
• Data Recovery Advisor
• Data Failures
• Listing Data Failures
• Data Recovery Advisor Views

Moving Data

• Describe ways to move data
• Create and use directory objects
• Use SQL*Loader to move data
• Use external tables to move data
• General architecture of Oracle Data Pump
• Use Data Pump export and import to move data

Working with Support

• Use the Enterprise Manager Support Workbench
• Work with Oracle Support
• Log service requests (SR)
• Manage patches