Oracle Database 12c: OCP DBA Training and Certification

1.Introduction to database management systems and databases
What is a database?.
Popular database management system (DBMS) software and why Oracle DBMS.
History and Current trends of DBMS and Database Administration.
Oracle database market share and about its current competitive landscape.
Tasks of a Database Administrator.

2.Relational Database Model and Installing Oracle database software
Designing a relational database using Entity-Relationship Modeling.
Understand pre-requisites for a successful Oracle RDBMS software installation.
Installation of Oracle 11g R2 database software (Oracle DBMS).
Installation of Oracle 12c database software (Latest Release).

3.Oracle Database Architecture
Planning for an Oracle database creation.
Creating an Oracle database using the MANUAL method.
Creating an Oracle database using the Graphical Tool (Database Configuration Assistant).
Startup and Shutdown of a database.
Components of an Oracle database and detailed architecture.
Advance Startup and Shutdown Scenarios.
Oracle database memory and process architecture.

4.Database storage
Tablespaces and allocation types.
Create tablespaces.
Create datafiles with fixed size and autoextend option.
Control files and producing a trace output to view its contents.
How to rename datafiles in a controlfile.
Redolog File architecture and best practices.
Enabling Archivelog mode for a database with automatic archiving.
Temporary tablespaces and temporary tablespace groups (11g R2 new feature).

5.Oracle Networking
Introduction.
Oracle listener configuration (Dynamic and Static Listeners).
Dynamic Service Registration and Naming Methods configuration in sqlnet.ora.
Oracle database connections from other computers.
Using Oracle netca (Network Configuration Assistant) for network configuration file tnsnames.ora.
Oracle listener administration and TNS_ADMIN environment variable.
Database Links.

6.User Administration and Security
How to create database users.
How to set database profile limits for a user.
Unlocking a user account and enabling password management.
Oracle database authorization using object and system privileges.
Oracle database authorization using database roles.
How to audit Oracle database connections in standard and XML mode.
How to audit Oracle DBA commands (SYS Operations).
How to schedule Oracle database jobs using DBMS_SCHEDULER package.

7.Used Managed (Manual) Backup and Recovery
Introduction and planning for a robust Backup and Recovery Strategy.
How to take an Oracle database backup in offline mode (COLD BACKUP).
Hot to take an Oracle database backup in online mode (HOT BACKUP).
How to clone a database using Cold Backup.
How to clone a database using Hot Backup.
How to recreate source database from a user-managed backup (Media failure scenario).

8.RMAN Backup and Recovery
Advantages of RMAN method compared to manual method.
Database backup using RMAN in normal and compressed mode.
Oracle database backup metadata.
Database backup using Recovery catalog (RMAN Catalog).
Querying the RMAN metadata.
How to clone a database using RMAN duplicate (11g R2 new feature: Backup based duplication).
How to restore and recover a database using its backup in the event of a media failure.
Oracle database backup retention policies and backups to Tape/offsite.
Fast Recovery Area for better management of backups and archive log files.

9.Oracle database upgrades
Introduction to Oracle versions and how to understand a version.
How to upgrade from a previous release to Oracle 12c.
How to upgrade from one patchset to another patchset within a release. What is slip-streaming ?
What are one-off/interim patches.
What are quarterly CPU patches (Cumulative Patch Updates).
Learn about Oracle Interim Patch Installer (OPATCH).
Upgrade a database using dbua (database upgrade assistant) GUI tool.

10.Oracle 12c database creation (non-CDB) and new features
How to create a non-CDB (traditional database) using Oracle 12c dbca utility.
Learn about the improvements in dbca utility.
How to configure and use Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Express web based tool.

11.Oracle 12c's Multitenant Architecture
Understanding Container database (CDB) and Pluggable Database (PDB) in Oracle 12c release.
How Oracle 12c CDB,PDB instance architecture differs from Oracle 11g,10g instance architectures.
How to create a non-CDB database in Oracle 12c (Traditional database).
How to create a CDB database in 12c (using the multitenant feature).
How to move (plug) the non-CDB database into the CDB database as a pluggable database (PDB).
Real world Business use cases for using Oracle 12c Multitenant architecture.

12.Oracle Utilities
Oracle database logical backups.
Business use cases of logical backups compared to physical backups.
Data Pump Export modes.
Data Pump Import to import data from an export backup.
Advanced features in Oracle Data Pump Export.

13.Performance Tuning
How to handle performance issues in the real world.
V$ views for performance monitoring and analysis.
How to size the Oracle database memory structures for optimal performance.
Oracle database wait events.
Explain Oracle UNDO management internals and sizing.
Explain Oracle TEMP space internals and sizing.
SQL Query tracing using TKPROF.
Database wide tracing for Oracle Errors (Event Tracing).
Index Monitoring and internals of index maintenance by Oracle.
Statistics data collection for Oracle database optimizer.