Oracle Certified Professional 10g (OCP 10g)

Certification Training

The Oracle Certified Professional 10g (OCP 10g) certification helps you build a strong base in Oracle 10g database techniques that include backup and recovery, performance tuning and administration.

• Database administrators
• Database developers
• Oracle technical consultants

Oracle Certified Professional 10g (OCP 10g) Course Details

OCP Exam #1Z0-042
Oracle Database 10g: Administration I

Installing Oracle Database 10g Software
Identify system requirements
Use Optimal Flexible Architecture
Install software with Oracle Universal Installer
Identify and configure commonly used environment variables

Creating an Oracle Database
Explain the Oracle database architecture
Explain the instance architecture
Use the management framework
Use DBCA to Create a database
Use DBCA to Configure a database
Use DBCA to Drop a database
Use DBCA to Manage templates

Managing Schema Objects
Create and modify tables
Define constraints
View the attributes of a table
View the contents of a table
Create indexes and views
Name database objects
Select appropriate data types
Create and use sequences

Managing Data
Manipulate data through SQL using INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE
Use Data Pump to export data
Use Data Pump to import data
Load data with SQL Loader
Create directory objects

Oracle PL/SQL
Identify PL/SQL objects
Describe triggers and triggering events
Identify configuration options that affect PL/SQL performance

Undo Management
Monitor and administer undo
Configure undo retention
Guarantee undo retention
Use the Undo Advisor
Describe the relationship between undo and transactions
Size the undo tablespace

Monitoring and Resolving Lock Conflicts
Detect and resolve lock conflicts
Manage deadlocks
Describe the relationship between transactions and locks
Explain lock modes within the Oracle Database 10g

Database Interfaces
Use SQL*Plus and iSQL*Plus to access the Oracle Database 10g
Use SQL*Plus and iSQL*Plus to describe the logical structure of tables
Use SQL to query, manipulate, and define data using SELECT, UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE and CREATE/ALTER/DROP statements
Identify common database interfaces
Describe a database transaction

Controlling the Oracle Database
Start and stop iSQL*Plus
Start and stop Enterprise Manager Database Control
Start and stop the Oracle Listener
Start up and shut down Oracle Database 10g
Describe startup and shutdown options for the Oracle Database
Handle Parameter files
Locate and view the Database alert log

Oracle Database Security
Apply the principal of least privilege
Manage default user accounts
Implement standard password security features
Audit database activity
Register for security updates

Oracle Net Services
Use Database Control to Create additional listeners
Use Database Control to Create Oracle Net service aliases
Use Database Control to Configure connect time failover
Use Listener features
Use the Oracle Net Manager to configure client and middle-tier connections
Use TNSPING to test Oracle Net connectivity
Describe Oracle Net Services
Describe Oracle Net names resolution methods

Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Concepts
Describe the basics of database backup, restore and recovery
Describe the types of failure that may occur in an Oracle Database
Describe ways to tune instance recovery
Identify the importance of checkpoints, redo log files, and archived log files
Configure ARCHIVELOG mode
Configure a database for recoverability

Oracle Database Storage Structures
Define the purpose of tablespaces and data files
Create tablespaces
Manage tablespaces (alter, drop, generate DDL, take offline, put on line, add data files, make read-only/read-write)
Obtain tablespace information from EM and the data dictionary
Drop tablespaces
Describe the default tablespaces

Administering Oracle Database Users
Create and manage database user accounts
Create and manage roles
Grant and revoke privileges
Control resource usage by users

Oracle Shared Servers
Identify when to use Oracle Shared Servers
Configure Oracle Shared Servers
Monitor Shared Servers
Describe the shared server architecture

Performance Monitoring
Troubleshoot invalid and unusable objects
Gather optimizer statistics
View performance metrics
React to performance issues

Proactive Maintenance
Set warning and critical alert thresholds
Collect and use baseline metrics
Use tuning and diagnostic advisors
Use the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)
Manage the Automatic Workload Repository
Describe server generated alerts

Database Backups
Create consistent database backups
Back up your database without shutting it down
Create incremental backups
Automate database backups
Monitor the flash recovery area
Describe the difference between image copies and backup sets
Describe the different types of database backups
Backup a control file to trace
Manage backups

Database Recovery
Recover from loss of a Control file
Recover from loss of a Redo log file
Recover from loss of a system-critical data file
Recover from loss of a non system-critical data file

OCP Exam #1Z0-043
Oracle Database 10g: Administration II

Using Globalization Support Objectives
Customize language-dependent behavior for the database and individual sessions
Specify different linguistic sorts for queries
Use datatime datatypes
Query data using case insensitive and accent insensitive searches
Obtain Globalization support configuration information

Securing the Oracle Listener
Secure the listener
Remove default EXTPROC entry and add a separate listener to handle external procedure calls

Configuring Recovery Manager
Configure database parameters that affect RMAN operations
Change RMAN default settings with CONFIGURE
Manage RMAN's persistent settings
Start RMAN utility and allocate channels

Recovering from User Errors
Recover a dropped table using Flashback technology
Perform Flashback table operation
Manage the recycle bin
Recover from user errors using Flashback versions query
Perform transaction level recovery using Flashback Transaction query

Dealing with Database Corruption
Define block corruption and list its causes and symptoms
Detect database corruptions using the following utilities: ANALYZE
DBVERIFY
Detect database corruptions using the dbms_repair package
Implement the DB_BLOCK_CHECKING parameter to detect corruptions
Repair corruptions using RMAN

Automatic Database Management
Use the Database Advisors to gather information about your database
Use the SQL Tuning Advisor to improve database performance
Use automatic undo retention tuning

Using Recovery Manager
Use the RMAN BACKUP command to create backup sets and image copies
Enable block change tracking
Manage the backups and image copies taken with RMAN with the LIST and REPORT commands

Diagnostic Sources
Use the alert log and database trace files for diagnostic purposes
View alerts using Enterprise Manager
Adjust thresholds for tracked metrics
Control the size and location of trace files

Monitoring and Managing Storage
Tune redo writing and archiving operations
Issue statements that can be suspended upon encountering space condition errors
Reduce space-related error conditions by proactively managing tablespace usage
Reclaim wasted space from tables and indexes using the segment shrink functionality
Estimate the size of new table and indexes
Use different storage options to improve the performance of queries
Rebuild indexes online

Automatic Storage Management
Set up initialization parameter files for ASM and database instances
Execute SQL commands with ASM file names
Start up and shut down ASM instances
Administer ASM disk groups
Use RMAN to migrate your database to ASM

Recovering from Non-Critical Losses
Recover temporary tablespaces
Recover a redo log group member
Recover index tablespaces
Recover read-only tablespaces
Recreate the password file

Monitoring and Managing Memory
Implement Automatic Shared Memory Management
Manually configure SGA parameters for various memory components in the SGA
Use Automatic PGA Memory Management

Database Recovery
Recover the control file
Explain reasons for incomplete recovery
Perform incomplete recovery using EM
Perform incomplete recovery using RMAN
Perform incomplete recovery using SQL
Perform database recovery following a RESETLOGS operation

Flashback Database
Determine which flashback technology to use for each recovery situation
Configure and sue Flashback Database
Monitor the Flashback Database
Use the Enterprise Manager Recovery Wizard to flashback database
Manage (or maintain) the Flash Recovery Area