Certification Exam Prep Seminar: Oracle RAC 11g & Grid Infrastructure Administration

This video seminar – Certification Exam Seminar: Oracle RAC 11g & Grid Infrastructure Administration - will help you significantly in your preparation to take the following Oracle RAC certification exams:

• Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 and Grid Infrastructure Administration (1Z0-058)

Become ready to take and pass the required exam for the "Oracle Certified Expert (OCE) - Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g and Grid Infrastructure Administrator" certification with this comprehensive Exam Preparation Seminar. Led by one of our Oracle Database expert instructors, this fast-paced seminar will help increase your confidence by providing you with exclusive tips and strategies for preparing and taking the exam.

This Exam Preparation Seminar is intended to help those with a solid foundation in Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g and Grid Infrastructure Administration. It provides a thorough review of the exam objectives and helps each student understand the topics and breadth required to become certified on Oracle RAC 11g.

The seminar may be accessed for repeated review as needed during subscription term. Completion of this seminar does not guarantee exam performance. Exam Prep Seminars do not include: an Oracle University eKit, expert video, labs, student environment, simulations, student Q&A. Please note that this seminar is for exam review purposes only and does not meet the Hands-on Course training requirement (if applicable to your certification track).

Audience

• Database Designers
• Support Engineer
• Technical Administrator
• Data Warehouse Administrator
• Database Administrators

Course Topics Oracle Grid Infrastructure

• Explain the principles and purposes of clusters
• Describe Cluster hardware best practices
• Understand Oracle Clusterware Architecture
• Describe how Grid Plug and Play affects Clusterware
• Describe ASM architecture and components

Grid Infrastructure Installation

• Perform pre-install tasks for Grid Infrastructure
• Install Grid Infrastructure
• Verify the installation
• Configure ASM disk groups
• Configure ASM volumes
• Make ASM cluster file system
• Mount ACFS volumes

Administering Oracle Clusterware

• Display Clusterware management proficiency
• Demonstrate OCR backup and recovery techniques
• Managing Network Settings

Managing Clusterware

• Perform prerequisite steps for extending a cluster
• Use Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) to add a node to an Oracle Clusterware
• Use OUI to remove a node from an Oracle Clusterware home
• Patching and maintaining clusterware

Making Applications Highly Available With Oracle Clusterware

• Describe the High Availability components of Oracle Clusterware
• Configure resource management for a RAC database
• Describe application placement policies
• Create an application Virtual IP (VIP)
• Manage application resources

Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware

• Locate Oracle Clusterware log files
• Gather all log files using diagcollection.pl
• Enable resource debugging
• Enable component-level debugging
• Enable tracing for Java-based tools
• Troubleshoot the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) file

Administering ASM Instances

• Understand and apply ASM initialization parameters
• Manage ASM instances and associated processes
• Monitor ASM using the V$ASM dynamic performance views

Administering ASM Disk Groups

• Create and delete ASM disk groups
• Set the attributes of an existing ASM disk group
• Perform ongoing maintenance tasks on ASM disk groups
• Explain key performance and scalability considerations for ASM disk groups

Administering ASM Files, Directories, and Templates

• Use different client tools to access ASM files
• Describe the format of a fully qualified ASM file name
• Explain how ASM files, directories and aliases are created and managed
• Understand and manage disk group templates

Administering ASM Cluster File Systems

• Administer ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
• Manage ASM volumes
• Implement ASM Cluster File System
• Manage ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
• Use ACFS Snapshots
• Using command line tools to Manage ACFS

Real Application Clusters Database Installation

• Install the Oracle database software
• Create a cluster database
• Perform post–database creation tasks
• Perform a single instance to RAC conversion

RAC Database Administration

• Use Enterprise Manager cluster database pages
• Define redo log files in a RAC environment
• Define undo tablespaces in a RAC environment
• Start and stop RAC databases and instances
• Modify initialization parameters in a RAC environment

Managing Backup and Recovery for RAC

• Configure the RAC database to use ARCHIVELOG mode and the flash recovery area
• Recover from media failure and instance failures
• Tune instance recovery in RAC
• Configure RMAN for the RAC environment

RAC DB Monitoring and Tuning

• Determine RAC-specific tuning components
• Determine RAC-specific wait events, global enqueues, and system statistics
• Implement the most common RAC tuning tips
• Use the Cluster Database Performance pages
• Use the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) in RAC
• Use Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) in RAC

Services

• Configure and manage services in a RAC environment
• Use services with client applications
• Use services with the Database Resource Manager and scheduler
• Configure services aggregation and tracing

High Availability Connections(Appendix-D)

• Configure client-side, connect-time load balancing and connect-time failover
• Configure server-side, connect-time load balancing
• Use the Load Balancing Advisory (LBA)
• Describe the benefits of Fast Application Notification (FAN)
• Configure server-side callouts
• Configure Transparent Application Failover (TAF)

Design for High Availability

• Design a Maximum Availability Architecture in your environment
• Determine the best RAC and Data Guard topologies for your environment
• Configure the Data Guard Broker configuration files in a RAC environment
• Patch your RAC system in a rolling fashion

Course Objectives

• Learn from one of Oracle University's top instructors
• Review key technologies and certification concepts tested in the
• Prepare for your Oracle certification exam
• Get information that will help you complete your preparation and study
• Receive tips and information that will help you on the test
• Understand the depth and breadth of the