Dec 20, 2008

OCM Exam Topics

Exam Topics
Server Configuration
[  ]         Create the database
[  ]         Determine and set sizing parameters for database structures
[  ]         Create and manage temporary, permanent, and undo tablespaces
[  ]         Stripe data files across multiple physical devices and locations
[  ]         Configure the database environment to support optimal data access performance
[  ]         Create and manage database configuration files
[  ]         Create and manage bigfile tablespaces
[  ]         Create and manage multiple network configuration files
[  ]         Create and configure a listener
[  ]         Configure the database instance to support shared server connections
[  ]         Set up network tracing
[  ]         Manage Oracle network processes (the Listener Control utility)
[  ]         Configure the network environment to allow connections to multiple databases
[  ]         Use configurationless connections

Enterprise Manager Grid Control
[  ]         Install the Enterprise Manager Grid Control software
[  ]         Configure the Enterprise Manager repository
[  ]         Create Enterprise Manager Grid Control users
[  ]         Use Enterprise Manager to modify a database configuration
[  ]         Configure Enterprise Manager to modify a database availability
[  ]         Create and manage jobs
[  ]         Create and monitor alerts
[  ]         Create notifications
[  ]         Implement Grid Control and Database Control
[  ]         Choose the appropriate tablespace type for the intended use
[  ]         Create Scheduler jobs
[  ]         Create schedules
[  ]         Assign jobs to windows
[  ]         Create programs
[  ]         Create job classes
[  ]         Install the Enterprise Manager Grid Control infrastructure
[  ]         Deploy Enterprise Manager Grid Control agents
[  ]         Configure Grid Control for business requirements
       
Managing Database Availability
[  ]         Create a recovery catalog database
[  ]         Configure Recovery Manager
[  ]         Use Recovery Manager to perform database backups
[  ]         Use Recover Manager to perform complete database restore and recovery operations
[  ]         Set Flashback Database parameters
[  ]         Monitor Flashback Database logs and statistics
[  ]         Perform a Flashback Database operation
[  ]         Configure a flash recovery area

Data Management
[  ]         Implement fine-grained auditing
[  ]         Create a secure application role
[  ]         Grant specific privileges for a Flashback Query
[  ]         Set parameters for retaining undo
[  ]         Implement fine-grained access control
[  ]         Create and manage contexts
[  ]         Use SQL*Loader
[  ]         Implement transportable tablespaces between homogeneous and heterogeneous systems (using different methods of moving files)
[  ]         Choose the appropriate partition method (range, hash, list, and composite)
[  ]         Choose the appropriate partition key
[  ]         Choose appropriate indexing methods (local, global, prefixed, and nonprefixed)
[  ]         Perform partition maintenance operations
[  ]         Maintain indexes on a partitioned table
[  ]         Create and manage LOB segments
[  ]         Apply parallelism appropriately
[  ]         Tune memory for parallel operations
[  ]         Set parallel parameters

Data Warehouse Management
[  ]         Create external tables (Data Loader and Data Pump drivers)
[  ]         Implement Data Pump export and import jobs for data transfer
[  ]         Implement Data Pump to and from remote databases
[  ]         Implement Replication/Streams
[  ]         Configure and manage master replication
[  ]         Configure and manage distributed materialized views
[  ]         Configure and manage Streams for replication
       
Performance Management
[  ]         Install Statspack
[  ]         Adjust the default interval for statistics collection
[  ]         Customize the events that are monitored
[  ]         Use ADDM to analyze statistics and to identify performance bottlenecks and fix them
[  ]         Implement automatic shared memory management
[  ]         Tune memory using manual memory management
[  ]         Monitor and tune SGA areas that are not automatically tuned
[  ]         Implement automatic SQL execution memory management
[  ]         Tune the PGA using work area size parameters
[  ]         Use the PGA Advisor
[  ]         Create a Database Resource Manager plan with directives (active session count, max execution time)
[  ]         Create consumer groups
[  ]         Configure consumer group mappings
[  ]         Manage Services
[  ]         Create and manage objects to accommodate different data access methods (schema tuning)
[  ]         Use the SQL Tuning Advisor
[  ]         Use the SQL Access Advisor
[  ]         Gather Optimizer statistics
[  ]         Interpret execution plan
[  ]         Use SQL tuning tools and features

Real Application Clusters
[  ]         Install Oracle Clusterware
[  ]         Install the Oracle Database 10g software
[  ]         Implement ASM failure groups
[  ]         Create and manage as ASM instance
[  ]         Create and manage ASM disk groups
[  ]         Configure ASM for the shared disks, and create a clustered database
[  ]         Configure archiving
[  ]         Configure Services with a primary instance and an available instance

Data Guard
[  ]         Use Data Guard Manager and DGMGRL
[  ]         Create and utilize a physical standby database
[  ]         Create and utilize a logical standby database
[  ]         Set up log transport services for various levels or protection
[  ]         Configure the network environment to allow communication between the standby database and the primary database
[  ]         Open the physical standby database in a "ready-only" state
[  ]         Perform a switchover operation and a failover operation
[  ]         Implement Data Guard