Offered by Oracle, the Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Database 19c: RAC, ASM, and Grid Infrastructure Administrator (1Z0-078) certification is critical for administrators managing Oracle RAC and ASM environments. This certification demonstrates your expertise in high availability and grid infrastructure. The training program from Multimatics equips participants with the skills needed to administer RAC and ASM systems and to pass the 1Z0-078 exam. The curriculum adheres to the official Oracle exam objectives, featuring detailed instruction, practical labs, and real-world examples.
Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Database 19c: RAC, ASM, and Grid Infrastructure Administrator (1Z0-078)
Target Audience
This program is suitable for:
- Oracle DBAs specializing in RAC and ASM.
- IT professionals managing high availability and scalability solutions.
- Experienced database administrators seeking expertise in grid infrastructure.
Duration
The program is a 5-day intensive training class.
Method of Delivery
The program provided by Multimatics will be delivered through interactive presentation by professional instructor(s), group debriefs, individual and team exercises, behavior modelling and roleplays, one-to-one and group discussion, case studies, and projects.
Examination
Program Objectives
Program Modules
- Describe the benefits of Oracle RAC
- Explain the necessity of global resources
- Describe global cache coordination
- Install the Oracle database software
- Create a cluster database
- Convert a single instance Oracle database to RAC
- 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
- Configure the RAC database to use ARCHIVELOG mode and the fast recovery area
- Configure RMAN for the RAC environment
- Explain the need for global concurrency control
- Describe the Global Resource Directory
- Explain how global resources are managed
- Explain global enqueue and instance lock management
- Explain global buffer cache management
- Explain use of Affinity to reduce Global Resource Contention
- Identify RAC-specific tuning components
- Determine RAC-specific wait-events, global enqueues and system statistics
- Implement the most common RAC tuning practices
- Use the Cluster Database Performance pages
- Use the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) in RAC
- Use Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) in RAC
- RAC Database SGA Runtime Management
- Configure and manage services in a RAC environment
- Use services with client applications
- Configure services aggregation and tracing
- Configure client-side connect-time load balancing and failover
- Configure server-side connect-time load balancing
- Use the Load Balancing Advisory (LBA)
- Explain the benefits of Fast Application Notification (FAN)
- Configure Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
- Co-location Tag for Client Routing
- Transparent Application Continuity
- Dynamic Services Fallback
- Plan for rolling patches and rolling updates
- Install a patchset with the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) utility
- Install a patch with the opatch utility
- Convert an Oracle RAC One Node database to a RAC database
- Use DBCA to convert a single-instance database to a RAC One Node database
- Explain the purpose and benefits of using QoS
- Explain the operation of QoS
- Describe the multitenant architecture in RAC and non-RAC environments
- Create a RAC multitenant container database (CDB)
- Create a pluggable database (PDB) in a RAC CDB
- Use the default CDB and PDB services
- Create PDB services to associate PDB services with server pools
- Automated PDB Patching and Relocation
- Introduction to Clusterware
- Explain the principles and purposes of clusters
- Describe Cluster hardware best practices
- Describe how Grid Plug and Play affects Clusterware
- Explain the Oracle Clusterware architecture
- Describe Oracle Clusterware startup details
- Explain the Flex Cluster architecture and components
- Describe the effect of node failure in a Flex Cluster
- Plan for Grid Infrastructure installation
- Verify system and network requirements
- Create groups and users
- Create directories
- Install Grid Infrastructure
- Verify the installation
- Configure ASM disk groups
- Optional Install for the Grid Infrastructure Management Repository
- Perform the prerequisite steps to extend a cluster
- Delete a node from a cluster
- Use DBCA to ADD new nodes to extend the cluster
- Perform day to day Clusterware administration tasks
- Perform Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) backup and recovery
- Manage network settings
- Explain the scope and capabilities of what-if command evaluation
- Secure Cluster Communication
- Explain the architecture and components of policy-based cluster management
- Administer server categorization
- Administer a policy set
- Activate a policy
- Explain the types of patches and upgrades available
- Plan for rolling patches and rolling upgrades
- Compare software versions with the active version
- Install a patchset with the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI)
- Install a patch with the opatch utility
- Zero-Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching
- Locate the Oracle Clusterware log files and use diagcollection.pl
- Enable resource debugging
- Enable component-level debugging
- Troubleshoot the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) file
- Explain the high availability components of Oracle Clusterware
- Explain policy-managed and administration-managed databases
- Create an application Virtual IP (VIP)
- Manage application resources
- Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Administration
- Explain the Automatic Storage Management (ASM) architecture
- Describe the components of ASM
- Explain and apply initialization parameters for ASM instances
- Manage ASM instances and associated processes
- Monitor ASM instances using the V$ASM dynamic performance views
- Describe the architecture and components of Flex ASM
- Install and configure Flex ASM
- Manage Flex ASM
- 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
- Use 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
- Describe and manage disk group templates
- Administer ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
- Manage ASM volumes
- Implement ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
- Use ACFS snapshots
- Configure ACFS auditing
- Implement ACFS encryption
- Configure and manage ACFC replication
- Implement ACFS tagging
- Configure High Availability NFS
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