NDS

1. Tell me something about yourself ?

2. what is your daily activities
3. what are your roles and responsibilities ?
4. what is meant by alert log ? what do you observe means what type of errors
(monitoring)
5. what is an instance ? what components does it contain ?
6. what is SGA ? what it contains ?
7. what is background process ? what it contains ?
8. when oracle process is going which b/g process run first ?
9. how can oracle process authenticate is a valid user user or not ?
10. what happens at startup Nomount ?
11. what happens at startup Mount stage ?
12. when oracle process is reading a SP FILE which component it is likely to
check ?
13. what is purpose of control file ?
14. what is purpose of redolog file ?
15. why do you mirror redo logs ?
16. what ,s your BACKUP STRATEGY ?
17. What is export and import strategy ?
18. what does controlfile contain ?
19. what are components effects the controlfile size ?

SIEMENS

1. How do you alter tablespace ?

2. FINGER command
3. TOUCH command
4. IMPORT/EXPORT what happens if we keep DIRECT = Y ?
5. Day started and suppose 90 % datafile filled ? what do you do ?
6. LOCAL/DICTIONARY TABLESPACES DIFFERENCES ?
7. STATS PACK
8. MTS ( Multi Thread Services)
9. COLD/HOT Differences ?
10. Control file BACKUP ?
11. Trace files ?
12. Listener.ora ?

Q SOFT

1. How many instances in our company ?

2. Suppose your db is 90 GB how do u assign SGA ?
3. What are the components of SGA ?
4. Database Buffer cache is useful for what ?
5. what is DML Statement ?
6. Suppose a redolog file fails what would be happen what is going on ?
7. Difference between Shutdown Transactional and NORMAL ?
8. What is SP FILE ? Suppose u have sp1,sp2 ,pfile which will run first ?
9. Suppose 90 % of datafile filled ? what do u do ?
10. HOT BACKUP ADVANTAGES ?
11. Write command on user assign Temp,Default TS ? What contains SYSTEM
TS ?
12. RBS and UNDO ?
13. Installation on Linux, parametes in KERNEL ?
14. How many tables ?
15. What is Hash Partioning ?
16. Export utility ? SHOW =Y & DIRECT =Y explain it ?
17. How can use quota ?
18. PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET ?
19. Explain about Alert log file ?
20. Optimiser RBO,CBO how can wes say RBO AND CBO ?
21. Logical Backup ?
22. When you create indexes ? After inserting data you created index on same ?

ORACLE

1. Suppose SID= 100 how can you check in OS level ?

2. Altering a datafile ? any pre requisite ?
3. What is your setup i.e. Environment ?
4. How can you verify log verification ?
5. Auto Extend on ?
6. U added a datafile how can u see that ?
7. How many process are running ? how can we see that ?
8. How can I increase my performance ?
9. Difference between ls –ltr and ls –l ?

CHENNAI COMPANY

1. OS level disk free space ? ( df –h )

2. Hot backup steps ?
3. controlfile command
4. BACKUP TIME ?
5. Compress =y ( IMPORT /EXPORT ) ?
6. Does export possible in diff OS ‘s ?
7. Version of OS ?
8. How can you identify port No ?
9. Default Port No ?
10. While Installing Oracle on Linux what is the last step ?
11. Can user create a db ?
12. What is DB links ?
13. Which user can Install Oracle ? ( root user or $ user )
14. How many memory layers are in the shared pool ?
15. How do you find out in the RMAN catlalog a particular archive log has been
backed up ?
16. What is ORA 01113 & 01110 ?
17. What is Dual Table ?
18. What is for Reco ?
19. Expalin the setup in your company ?
20. How many redologs are generated in your company and tell the size ?

FINCH

1. what is check point ?

2. How to manage Idle Users ? ( idle_time in profile)
3. BACKUP Strategy of your company ?
4. When u take cold bakup and RMAN Backup ?
5. Monitoring of Dynamic Views & Data Dictionary Views ?
6. SQL Tuning ?
7. what is semaphore while installing ORACLE ?
8. Datafile size ?
9. How do u find the overall size of database ?
10. How do u find USED and FREE space in DATABASE ?
11. Shared Realm memory does not exist ?
12. Status of Redologs in ARCHIVE and NOARCHIVE mode of DB ?
13. What happens internally when we keep in BEGIN BACKUP MODE ?
14. What are the advantages of CATALOG DB ?
15. What is RMAN Repository ?

IBM

1. Tell me about yourself ?

2. Backup Strategy ?
3. what happens internally when we keep in BEGIN BACKUP MODE ?
4. How do u include user managed backups in RMAN ?
5. What happens internally while taking backup using RMAN ?
6. If a block is found corrupt while taking backup using RMAN does RMAN take
backup of that datafile or will it terminate processing ?
7. what is DBWR,LGWR ?
8. What is SMON and PMON ?
9. How does ckpt process helpful during instance recovery ?
 10. How can we image copy of datafile using RMAN ?
11. How can we compress backup set ?
12. what are new features in 10g release 2 ?
13. How do you Configure RMAN ?

WIPRO

1. Tell about yourself ?

2. What are your daily activities ?
3. What type of DB u have i.e. OLTP/DEVELOPMENT/OLAP ?
4. Undo tablespace OPTIONS ?
5. How many types one can create db ?
6. Suppose u have deleted datafile ? can we recevor or not provided no backup is
available ?
7. What is DBWR ?
8. What are features of oracle 9i ?
9. What is core level sql statement ?
10. Suppose waste data inserted into a table ? I want to remove that ? how ?
11. 4 pm meeting going on ? db crash ? what is scenario ?

II ROUND

1. What is your company profile ?

2. Which type of backups are using ?
3. Difference between RMAN and User Managed ?
4. Difference between Export /Import ? what Features ?
5. OLTP backup manager ?
6. SQL statement Tuning ?
7. Row buffer cache ?
8. STATS PACK ?

MIND TREE

1. Definition of Function, Package , Procedure ?

2. What do you mean by dual table why it is required ?
3. Snapshot too old error 01555 ?
4. Difference between HOT & COLD backup ? Why it is required to be archive
in online backup ?
5. What is meant by Trigger ?
 TCS ( MUMBAI)

1. Difference between 8i ,9i and 10g ? Expalin grid ?

2. How many components in SGA and DATABASE ?
3. What is checkpoint ?
4. What is PMON ?
5. I want to change NOARCHIVE TO ARCHIVE . What are the steps ?
6. COLD & HOT backup steps ?
7. Difference between RMAN and LOGICAL backups ?
8. While starting the Linux , what will happen . First GUI or any command to
enter to GUI ?
9. SQL Loader , suppose while loading data error will occur ? will I load or not ?
If not what is the solution ?
10. Session ? what we can able to see in that ?
11. Suppose in 24/7 Env 5 datafiles are lost ? how can your recover ? Steps ?
12. What is difference between Windows and Unix Environment ?
13. Suppose one user opened a session ? How can we see that session is opened or
not at O/S level ?
14. How many memory layers are there in Shared Pool ?
15. How do you find out in the RMAN catalog if a particular archive log has been
backup or not ?
16. How can your tell how much space is left on a given file system ?

WIBEN TECHNOLOGIES

1. Daily activities ?
2. Database version ?
3. DB Size ?
4. HOW many instances you have and how may development boxes u have ?
5. Team size ?
6. Tell about physical backups ?
7. How to take physical backups can you explain ?
8. What is logical backup ?
9. What is your backup strategy ?
10. Difference between logical and physical backup ?

AXA

1. Tell me about yourself ?

2. Team size ?
3. How many DB u have production , development & QA ?
4. SIZE of your Production DB ?
5. Size of your DEVELOPMENT DB ?
6. What is the size of your Redo log ?
7. Size of SGA ?
8. Control file contains what parameters ?
9. what does Pfile Contains ?
10. What is PCT Free ?
11. what is db block size ?
12. What is SQL Loader ?
13. How can you load data in Sql Loader ?
14. I have one updated row how can you insert already updated table by using
SQL Loader ?
15. How can you increase TS Size and Datafile Size ?
16. What is Dirty buffer ?
17. what is alert log ? what is it contain ?
18. ANY issues did u face ?
19. Generally what errors you got ?
20. Can you tell me what is diff between 9i and 10g ?
21. Explain 10g features ?
22. Tell me Oracle installation steps ?
23. What is your backup strategy ?
24. When u take hot backup and how much time it take to complete ?
25. what is cold backup ?
26. What is db refresh ? How you do db refresh ?
27. What is Stats Pack Analysis ?
28. What is PT ? Have you ever done it ?
29. Can you tell me how many controlfiles you have ?
30. If I have created 9 controlfiles what happens ? why ?
31. Control file contains what ?
32. If listener is failed what is the error ?
33. One of the user not able to connect to db he is getting listener failed error ?
what is the reason ? what error ?
34. wha is recovery catalog
35. What is TKPROF ?
36. One of my user is complaining that system is so slow ? what do u d o ?
37. If the user does not have the privilege to enable session , As a DBA what u
do?
38. Suppose If have 1000 statements in my report and I want to see the top 5
resource consuming statements ? how to see those statements ?
39. How to enable session at Instance level ?