Preparing for the Oracle Database 12c Administrator Certified Professional (Upgrade) credential support candidates gain the skills and knowledge related to DBA and backup & recovery along with the know-how of managing a multitenant environment. Keeping your certification current is key to keeping your expertise to be at the forefront of Oracle DB technology. A current certification allows you to: Remain current with features and functions even if they are not used in your current systems. Let customers know that you are current with Oracle database technology. Confidently recommend to your management the best solutions for new requirements. Be more confident knowing that “you have what it takes” to manage your systems properly with the latest Oracle database architecture.

Backup and Recovery

Oracle Data Protection Solutions

• Explain Oracle backup and recovery solutions

  • Describe types of database failures

  • Describe the tools available for backup and recovery tasks

  • Describe RMAN and maximum availability architecture

  • Use the SYSBACK privilege

  • Use RMAN stand-alone and job commands

Performing Basic Backup and Recovery

• Back up and recover a NOARCHIVELOG database

  • Perform backup and recovery in NOARCHIVELOG mode

  • Use SQL in RMAN

Configuring for Recoverability

• Configure and manage RMAN settings

  • Configure database parameters that affect RMAN operations

  • Configure persistent settings for RMAN

  • View persistent settings

  • Specify a retention policy

• Configure the Fast Recovery Area

  • Explain the Fast Recovery Area

  • Configure the Fast Recovery Area

• Configure control files and redo log files for recoverability

  • Multiplex control files

  • Multiplex redo log files

Using the RMAN Recovery Catalog

• Create and use an RMAN recovery catalog

  • Configure a recovery catalog

  • Register target databases in a recovery catalog

  • Catalog additional backup files

  • Resynchronize a recovery catalog

  • Use and maintain RMAN stored scripts

  • Upgrade and drop a recovery catalog

• Protect the RMAN recovery catalog

  • Back up the recovery catalog

  • Re-create an unrecoverable recovery catalog

  • Export and import the recovery catalog

  • Create and use Virtual Private Catalogs

Implementing Backup Strategies

• Use various RMAN backup types and strategies

  • Enable ARCHIVELOG mode

  • Create tape and disk based backups

  • Create whole database backups

  • Create consistent and inconsistent backups

  • Create backup sets and image copies

  • Create backups of read-only tablespaces

  • Employ best practices for data warehouse backups

Performing Backups

• Perform full and incremental backups

  • Create full and incremental backups

  • Use the Oracle-suggested backup strategy

• Manage backups

  • Configure and monitor block change tracking

  • Report on backups using LIST, REPORT commands

  • Manage backups using CROSSCHECK, DELETE commands

Configuring RMAN Backup Options and Creating Backup of Non-Database Files

• Use techniques to improve backups

  • Create compressed backups

  • Create multi-section backups of very large files

  • Create proxy copies

  • Create duplexed backup sets

  • Create backups of backup sets

  • Create archival backups

• Perform backup of non-database files

  • Back up a control file to trace

  • Back up archived redo log files

  • Back up ASM diskgroup metadata

Using RMAN-Encrypted Backups

• Create RMAN-encrypted backups

• Use transparent-mode encryption

• Use password-mode encryption

• Use dual-mode encryption

• Restore encrypted backups

Diagnosing Failures

• Describe the Automatic Diagnostic Workflow

  • Use the Automatic Diagnostic Repository

  • Use ADRCI

  • Find and interpret message output and error stacks

  • Use the Data Recovery Advisor

• Handle block corruption

  • Detect block corruption using RMAN

  • Perform block recovery using RMAN

  • Detect database corruptions using the ANALYZE and DBVERIFY utility

  • Detect database corruptions using the DBMS_REPAIR package

  • Implement the DB_BLOCK_CHECKING parameter to detect corruptions

Performing Restore and Recovery Operations

• Describe and tune instance recovery

• Perform complete and incomplete recovery

  • Use RMAN RESTORE and RECOVER commands

  • Restore ASM disk groups

  • Recover from media failures

  • Perform complete and incomplete or “point-in-time” recoveries using RMAN

  • Perform automated TSPITR

Recovering Files Using RMAN

• Perform recovery for spfile, control file, redo log files

• Perform table recovery from backups

• Perform recovery of index and read-only tablespaces, temp file

• Restore a database to a new host

• Recover using incrementally updated backups

• Switch to image copies for fast recovery

• Perform disaster recovery

Using Oracle Secure Backup

• Configure and use Oracle Secure Backup

Using Flashback Technologies

• Describe the Flashback technologies

  • Configure a database to use Flashback technologies

  • Guarantee undo retention

• Use Flashback to query data

  • Use Flashback Query

  • Use Flashback Version Query

  • Use Flashback Transaction Query

  • Flash back a transaction

• Perform Flashback Table operations

  • Perform Flashback Table

  • Restore tables from the recycle bin

• Describe and use Flashback Data Archive

  • Use Flashback Data Archive

  • Use DBMS_FLASHBACK_ARCHIVE package

Using Flashback Database

• Perform Flashback Database

  • Configure Flashback Database

  • Perform Flashback Database

Transporting Data

• Describe and use transportable tablespaces and databases

  • Transport tablespaces between databases using image copies or backup sets

  • Transport databases using data files or backup sets

  • Transport data across platforms

Duplicating a Database

• Choose a technique for duplicating a database

  • From an active database, connected to the target and auxiliary instances

  • From backup, connected to the target and auxiliary instances

  • From backup, connected to the auxiliary instance, not connected to the target, but with recovery catalog connection

  • From backup, connected to the auxiliary instance, not connected to the target and the recovery catalog

  • Duplicate a database with RMAN

• Create a backup-up based duplicate database

• Duplicate a database based on a running instance

Monitoring and Tuning of RMAN Operations

• Tune RMAN performance

  • Interpret RMAN error stacks

  • Diagnose performance bottlenecks

  • Tune RMAN backup performance

Using Automatic Storage Management

• Use Automatic Storage Management

  • Explain Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

  • Set up initialization parameter files for ASM and database instances

  • Administer ASM diskgroups

  • Execute SQL commands with ASM file names

  • Perform startup and shutdown for ASM instances

  • Use the ASMCMD command-line interface

  • Set up ASM fast mirror resynch

  • Use RMAN to migrate your database to ASM

Performing User-Managed Backup and Recovery

• Perform user-managed backup and recovery

  • Describe the backup mode

  • Back up and recover a control file

  • Recover from a lost temp file

  • Recover from a lost redo log group

  • Recover from the loss of a password file

  • Perform user-managed complete database recovery

  • Perform user-managed incomplete database recovery

Multitenant Environment

Multitenant Container and Pluggable Database Architecture

• Describe multitenant architecture

• Explain pluggable database provisioning

Creating Multitenant Container Databases and Pluggable Databases

• Create and configure a CDB

• Create a PDB using different methods

• Unplug and drop a PDB

• Migrate a non-CDB to a PDB database

Managing CDBs and PDBs

• Establish connections to a CDB/PDB

• Start up and shut down a CDB and open and close PDBs

• Evaluate the impact of parameter value changes

Managing Storage in a CDB and PDBs

• Manage permanent and temporary tablespaces in CDB and PDBs

Managing Security in a CDB and PDBs

• Manage common and local users

• Manage common and local privileges

• Manage common and local roles

• Enable common users to access data in specific PDBs

Managing Availability

• Perform backups of a CDB and PDBs

• Recover PDB from PDB datafiles loss

• Use Data Recovery Advisor

• Duplicate PDBs using RMAN

• Perform Flashback for a CDB

Managing Performance

• Monitor operations and performance in a CDB and PDBs

• Manage allocation of resources between PDBs and within a PDB

• Perform Database Replay

Moving Data, Performing Security Operations, and Interacting with Other Oracle Products

• Use Data Pump

• Use SQL*Loader

• Audit operations

• Use other products with a CDB and PDBs: Database Vault, Data Guard, LogMiner

Database Administration

Installing and Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c

• Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a stand-alone server

• Install Oracle Database software

• Use Oracle Restart

• Upgrade to Oracle Database 12c

Using Enterprise Manager and Other Tools

• Use EM Express

• Use DBCA to create and manage databases

• Use Oracle Database Migration Assistant for Unicode

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

• Implement Automatic Memory Management

Storage Management

• Create and maintain bigfile tablespaces

• Rename tablespaces

• Create a default permanent tablespace

Space Management

• Manage resumable space allocation

• Reclaim wasted space from tables and indexes by using the segment shrink functionality

• Rebuild indexes online

• Reduce space-related error conditions by proactively managing tablespace usage

• Use different storage options to improve the performance of queries

• Use automatic undo retention tuning and temporary undo

• Implement partitioning methods

Security

• Configure the password file to use case-sensitive passwords

• Encrypt a tablespace

• Use Secure File LOBS to store documents with compression, encryption, de-duplication

• Configure fined-grained access to network services

• Use and manage Oracle Data Redaction policies

Auditing

• Enable and configure standard and Unified Audit Data Trail

• Create and enable audit policies

Privileges

• Use administrative privileges

• Create, enable, and use privilege analysis

Using Globalization Support

• Customize language-dependent behavior for the database and individual sessions

• Specify different linguistic sorts for queries

• Use datetime datatypes

• Query data using non-case-sensitive and accent-insensitive searches

• Obtain globalization support configuration information

Automating Tasks with the Scheduler

• Create a job, program, and schedule

• Use a time-based or event-based schedule for executing Scheduler jobs

• Create lightweight jobs

• Use job chains to perform a series of related tasks

• Create Windows and Job Classes

• Use advanced Scheduler concepts to prioritize jobs

Loading and Unloading Data

• Explain Data Pump architecture

• Monitor a Data Pump job

• Use Data Pump export and import

• Create external tables for data population

Managing Resources

• Configure the Resource Manager

• Assign users to Resource Manager groups

• Create resource plans within groups

• Specify directives for allocating resources to consumer groups

Managing Database Performance

• Use the SQL Tuning Advisor

• Use the SQL Access Advisor to tune a workload

• Use Database Replay

• Implement real-time database operation monitoring

• Use Adaptive Execution Plans

• Use enhanced features of statistics gathering

• Use Adaptive SQL Plan Management

• Perform emergency monitoring and real-time ADDM

• Generate ADDM Compare Period (Use AWR and ADDM)

• Diagnose performance issues using ASH enhancements

• Explain Multiprocess and Multithreaded Oracle architecture

• Use Flash Cache

Information Lifecycle Management and Storage Enhancements

• Use ILM features

• Perform tracking and automated data placement

• Move a data file online

In-Database Archiving and Valid-Time Temporal

• Differentiate between ILM and Valid-Time Temporal

• Set and use Valid-Time Temporal

• Use in-database archiving