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Oracle Database 10g R2: Administering RAC Exam Study

Guide
The Oracle Database 10g R2: Administering RAC Exam Study Guide is designed to provide students
with the information that can help them learn more to pass the Oracle Database 10g R2: Administering
RAC (1Z0-048) Exam.
The exam audience is represented by implementation consultants that have the training and knowledge
to efficiently configure and administer a database for use with Real Application Clusters.
For each exam topic there have been identified alternative training options that are available at Oracle.
Please note that some of the training recommended can cover multiple exam topics.
The exam covers 13 topics.
The exam consists of two Sections: RAC Administration and Cluster Management. RAC Administration
covers 9 topics and Cluster Management covers 4 topics.
RAC Administration
Topic 1: RAC Installation
Objectives

Install and configure Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

Install the Oracle database software

Perform pre-database creation tasks

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 2: Database Creation
Objectives

Install the Enterprise Manager agent on each cluster node

Create a cluster database

Perform post-database creation tasks

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 3: RAC DB Administration


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Objectives

Use Enterprise Manager cluster database pages

Define and manage redo log files in a RAC environment

Define and manage undo tablespaces in a RAC environment

Start and stop RAC databases and instances

Modify initialization parameters in a RAC environment

Create and manage ASM instances in a RAC environment

Create and manage ASM Disk Groups and ASM Files

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 4: Backup and Recover a RAC DB
Objectives
Configure the RAC database to use ARCHIVELOG mode and the flash recovery
area

Configure RMAN for the RAC environment

Explain the implications of OracleNet for connecting RMAN for parallel backups

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 5: RAC DB Monitoring and Tuning
Objectives
Explain RAC-specific tuning considerations and techniques in an environment
involving mixed workloads

Tune instance recovery in RAC

Determine RAC-specific wait events, global enqueues, and system statistics
Diagnose and improve common RAC-specific performance problems involving
indexes, sequences and undo

Use the Cluster Database Performance pages

Use the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) in RAC

Use Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) in RAC

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 6: Services


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Objectives

Configure and manage services in a RAC environment

Connect your client to a RAC database using services

Use services with the Database Resource Manager

Use services with the Scheduler

Set performance-metric thresholds on services

Configure services aggregation and tracing

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 7: High Availability of Connections
Objectives

Configure client-side connect-time load balancing

Configure client-side connect-time failover

Configure server-side connect-time load balancing

Use the Load Balancing Advisory (LBA)

Describe the uses of Fast Application Notification

Describe the uses of server-side callouts

Describe the purposes of server- and client-side ONS

Configure Transparent Application Failover (TAF)

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 8: Design for HA
Objectives

Design a Maximum Availability Architecture in your environment

Determine the best RAC and Data Guard topologies for your environment

Explain Data Guard Broker configuration files in a RAC environment

Decide on the best ASM configuration to use

Patch your RAC system in a rolling fashion

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 9: RAC Technology Overview
Objectives



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Recommend appropriate use and possible application of RAC technology to
address scalability, high availability and grid provisioning requirements

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Cluster Management
Topic 1: Oracle Clusterware Installation
Objectives

Describe the capabilities and features of Oracle Clusterware

Perform preinstallation and cluster setup tasks

Install Oracle Clusterware
Describe the different storage options and their implications (OCFS, raw disks,
ASM)

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 2: Oracle Clusterware Administration
Objectives

Manually control the Oracle Clusterware stack

Change voting disk configuration

Back up and recover your voting disks

Manually back up and recover the OCR, and repair the OCR configuration

Explain application VIPs and change VIP addresses

Use Clusterware to protect non-Oracle applications

Prevent automatic instance restarts

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 3: Diagnosing the Oracle Clusterware components
Objectives

Enable and collect diagnostics for Oracle Clusterware

Set debugging flags for OCR-related tools

Enable Oracle Clusterware debugging

Enable tracing for Java-based tools



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Use Cluster Verify

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2
Topic 4: Node Addition and Removal
Objectives

Add a new node to your cluster database

Remove a node from your cluster database

Training Options
o Instructor Led Training (delivered by Oracle University)
Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators Release 2


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