Exam 1Z1-042
This course is first step towards as an Oracle professional, designed to give you a firm foundation in basic database administration. In this class you will learn how to install and maintain an Oracle Database. You will gain a conceptual understanding of the Oracle database architecture and how its components work and interact with one another. You will also learn how to create an operational database and properly manage the various structure in an effective and efficient manner, including performance monitoring, database security, user management, and backup / recovery techniques. The lesson topics are reinforced with structured hands on practices.
Course Objectives
The course will cover the following elements:
- Install Oracle database 10g and configure a database
- Manage the Oracle instance
- Manage the database storage structures
- Create and administer user accounts
- Perform backup and recovery of a database
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain a database
- Configure Oracle net services
- Move data between database and files
Course Benefits
Upon successful completion students will be able to:
- Explain core DBA tasks and tools
- Plan an Oracle installation
- Use optimal flexible architecture
- Install software with the Oracle universal installer (OUI)
- Create a database with the database configuration assistant (DBCA)
- Create a database design template with DBCA
- Generate database creation scripts with the DBCA
- Start and stop Oracle database and components
- Use Enterprise Manager (EM)
- Access a database with SQL *Plus and iSQL *Plus
- Modify database initialization parameters
- Understand the stages of database startup
- View the alert log
- Use the data dictionary
- Describe table data storage (in blocks)
- Define the purpose of tablespaces and data files
- Understand and utilize Oracle managed files (OMF)
- Create and manage tablespaces
- Obtain tablespace information
- Describe the main concepts and functionality of automatic storage management (ASM)
- Create and manage database user accounts
- Authenticate users
- Assign default storage areas (tablespaces)
- Grant and revoke privileges
- Create and manage roles
- Create and manage profiles
- Implement standard password security features
- Control resource usage by users
- Define schema objects and data types
- Create and modify tables
- Define constraints
- View the columns and contents of a table
- Create indexes, views and sequences
- Explain the use of temporary tables
- Use the data dictionary
- Manage data through SQL
- Identify and administer PL / SQL objects
- Describe triggers and triggering events
- Monitor and resolve locking conflicts
- Explain DML and undo data generation
- Monitor and administer undo
- Describe the difference between undo and redo data
- Configure undo retention
- Guarantee undo retention
- Use the undo advisor
- Describe DBA responsibilities for security
- Apply the principal of least privilege
- Enable standard database auditing specify audit options
- Review audit information
- Maintain the audit trail
- Use enterprise manager for configuring the Oracle network environment
- Create additional listeners
- Create net service aliases
- Configure connect-time failover
- Control the Oracle net listener
- Test Oracle net connectivity
- Identify when the use shared versus dedicated servers
- Use statistics
- manage the automatic workload repository (AWR)
- Use the automatic database diagnostic monitor (ADDM)
- Describe advisory framework
- Set alert thresholds
- Use server generated alerts
- Use automated tasks
- Use enterprise manager pages to monitor performance
- Use the SQL tuning advisor
- Use the SQL access advisor
- Use automatic shared memory management
- Use the memory advisor to size memory buffers
- Use performance related dynamic views
- Troubleshoot invalid or unusable objects
- Identify the types of failure that may occur in an Oracle database
- Describe ways to tune instance recovery
- Identify the importance of checkpoint, redo log files and archived log files
- Configure ARCHIVELOG mode
- Create consistent database backups
- Back your database up without shutting down
- Create incremental backups
- Automate database backups
- Monitor the flash recovery area
- Recover from loss of a control file
- Recover from loss of a redo log file
- Perform complete recovery following the loss of a data file
- Describe flashback database
- Restore the table content to a specific point in the past with flashback table
- Recover from a dropped table
- View the contents of the database as any single point in time with flashback query
- See versions of a row time with flashback versions query
- View the transaction history of a row with flashback transaction query
- Describe available ways for moving data
- Create and use directory objects
- Use SQL loader to load data from a non-Oracle database (or user files)
- Explain the general architecture of data pump
- Use data pump export and import to move data between Oracle databases
- Use external tables to move data via platform independent files
Course Duration: 234 Hours