1.

Architecture

¾ Outline the Oracle Architecture and its main Components

¾ Explain the Oracle instance architecture

2. Installing the Oracle Database Software

¾ Identify common database administrative tools available to a DBA

(1)
¾ Use optimal flexible architecture
¾ Install software with Oracle Universal Installer
¾ Identify and configure commonly used environment variables
¾ Use Installer Log (2)

3. Creating an Oracle Database

¾ Use DBCA to Create a database

¾ Use DBCA to Delete a database
¾ Use DBCA to manage templates

4. Managing the Oracle Instance

¾ Use Enterprise Manager

¾ Use SQL*Plus and iSQL*Plus to access the Oracle Database
¾ Modify database initialization parameters
¾ Describe the stages of database startup
¾ Describe the database shutdown options
¾ View the database alert log
¾ Use dynamic performance views (3)

5. Managing Database Storage Structures

¾ Describe how table row data is stored in blocks (4)

¾ Define the purpose of tablespaces and data files
¾ Explain space management in tablespaces
¾ Create tablespaces
¾ Manage tablespaces: alter, drop, take offline, put online, add data
files, make read-only or read-write, generate DDL
¾ Obtain tablespace information
¾ Explain key features and benefits of ASM (5)

6. Administering User Security

¾ Create and manage database user accounts

¾ Create and manage roles
¾ Grant and revoke privileges
¾ Create and manage profiles (6)
7. Managing Schema Objects

¾ Create and modify tables

¾ Define constraints and states of constraints (7)
¾ Dropping and truncating tables (7)
¾ Create and use B-Tree and Bitmap indexes (8)
¾ Create Views
¾ Create sequences
¾ Use data dictionary

8. Managing Data and Concurrency

¾ Manipulate data through the use of SQL

¾ Identify and administer PL/SQL objects
¾ Describe triggers and triggering events
¾ Define levels of locking
¾ List possible causes of lock conflict
¾ Monitor and resolve lock conflicts

9. Managing Undo Data

¾ Monitor and administer undo

¾ Configure undo retention
¾ Describe the relationship between undo and transactions
¾ Size the undo tablespace

10. Implementing Oracle Database Security

¾ Apply the principle of least privilege

¾ Audit database activity
¾ Implement Fine-Grained Auditing

11. Configuring the Oracle Network Environment

¾ Use Database Control to Create additional listeners

¾ Use Database Control to Create Oracle Net service aliases
¾ Control Oracle Net Listeners
¾ Identify when to use shared servers versus dedicated servers

12. Proactive Maintenance

¾ Gather optimizer statistics

¾ Manage the Automatic Workload Repository
¾ Use the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)
¾ Set warning and critical alert thresholds
¾ React to performance issues

13. Performance Management

¾ Use enterprise manager to view performance (9)

¾ Tune SQL by using SQL tuning advisor (10)
¾ Tune SQL by using SQL access advisor
 ¾ Use automatic shared memory management (11)
¾ Use the memory advisor to size memory buffer (11)

14. Backup and Recovery Concepts

¾ Describe the types of failure that may occur in an Oracle Database

¾ Identify the importance of checkpoints, redo log files, and
archived log files
¾ Tuning instance recovery
¾ Configure a database for recoverability
¾ Configure ARCHIVELOG mode

15. Performing Database Backup

¾ Create consistent database backups

¾ Back up your database without shutting it down
¾ Create incremental backups
¾ Automate database backups
¾ Backup a control file to trace
¾ Monitor flash recovery area

16. Performing Database Recovery

¾ Recover from loss of a Control file

¾ Recover from loss of a Redo log file
¾ Recover from loss of a system-critical data file
¾ Recover from loss of a non system-critical data file

17. Performing Flashback

¾ Describe flashback database (12)

¾ Resotore the table contents to a specific point in time (12)
¾ Recover from a dropped table (12)
¾ Use Flashback Query to view the contents of the database as of any
single point of time (12)
¾ View transaction history or row with flashback transaction query
(12)

18. Moving Data

¾ Describe the general architecture of Data Pump (13)

¾ Use Data Pump export and import to move data between Oracle
databases
¾ Load data with SQL Loader (14)
¾ Use external tables to move data (14)