• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

• Overview of the Oracle database 12c
• Overview of the Oracle Cloud
• Relational database concepts
• Database administration tasks

• Overview of the Oracle database architecture
• The Oracle database instance
• Oracle Database memory structures
• Process architecture and structures
• Server and client processes
• The Oracle database storage architecture
• Connect to the Oracle database instance

• Administrative tools available to a DBA
• Use SQL*Plus in Oracle to manage a database instance
• Use SQL Developer to manage a database instance
• Administer the database using Enterprise Manager (EM)
• Overview of the Enterprise Manager framework
• Access Enterprise Manager Database Express
• The Enterprise Manager Database Express Home Page
• Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
• Initialization parameter files

• Overview of network configuration
• Oracle Net Listener configuration and management
• Oracle Net naming methods
• Tools for configuring and managing the Oracle network
• Using the Net Configuration Assistant
• Configure client connections with Net Manager
• View listener configuration
• Start and stop the Oracle listener
• Use TNSPING to test Oracle Net connectivity
• Connect to the database
• Configure Net Services with Enterprise Manager

• Overview of data storage
• The database block
• Overview of tablespaces and datafiles
• Use Enterprise Manager to view the storage structure of the database
• Create and alter tablespace commands
• Temporary tablespaces
• Create and manage datafiles
• Use OMF
• Drop tablespaces and datafiles

• Predefined database administration accounts
• User accounts
• Create a user account
• User authentication
• Change a user’s password
• Manage a user account
• Drop a user account
• Monitor user information
• Terminate user sessions

• Database access
• Oracle supplied roles
• System and object level privileges
• The grant and revoke commands
• Create, modify and drop roles
• Use predefined roles

• Overview of user profiles
• Profile resource parameters
• Create profile command
• Manage passwords with profiles
• Control resource usage with profiles
• Maintain profiles

• Overview of database security
• Overview of database auditing
• Security compliance
• Standard auditing
• Unified audit trail
• Separation of audit responsibilities with the AUDIT_ADMIN and AUDIT_VIEWER roles
• Configure the audit trail
• Specify audit options

• Levels of locking in Oracle
• Methods used to acquire locks
• Data concurrency
• Possible causes of contention
• DML locks
• Prevent locking problems
• Detect lock contention
• Resolve conflicts

• Undo data overview
• Monitor and administer undo
• Configure undo retention
• Switch undo tablespaces
• Specify the retention period
• Guarantee undo retention
• Retention period for flashback queries
• View undo space information
• Use the undo advisor
• Size the undo tablespace
• Alter an undo tablespace to a fixed size

• Oracle backup solutions
• Oracle suggested backup strategy
• Overview of database backup, restore and recover
• Flashback technology
• Types of failure
• Instance recovery
• Tune instance recovery
• The MTTR Advisor
• Media failure
• Configure a database for recoverability

• Database Maintenance
• View the alert log
• The Automatic Workload Repository
• Statistic levels
• The Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitoring
• Monitor an Oracle database
• Use the Advisors
• Set up notification rules

• Tuning information sources
• Performance monitoring
• Tuning activities
• Performance planning
• Instance tuning
• Performance tuning methodology
• Performance tuning data
• Monitoring performance
• Managing memory

• SQL tuning
• The Oracle Optimizer
• SQL Plan directives
• Adaptive execution plans
• SQL Advisors
• Automatic SQL Tuning results
• Implement automatic tuning recommendations
• SQL Tuning Advisor

• Create directory objects
• Data Pump architecture
• Data Pump data dictionary views
• Data Pump interactive mode
• Data Pump API
• Use Data Pump to export data
• Use Data Pump to import data
• Overview of SQL Loader
• Command line parameters
• Record filtering
• Control file keywords
• Datafiles
• SQL Loader data paths
• External Tables

• Overview of the Database Resource Manager
• Use the Resource Manager
• Create Resource Plans
• The default maintenance resource manager plan
• Create Resource Plan Directives
• Allocate resources for Resource Plans

• Introduction to the Scheduler
• Access Rights
• Scheduler components and workflow
• Create a Job
• Job Classes
• Use time based, event based schedules
• Create an event based schedule

• Overview of space management
• Block space management within segments
• Segment types
• Allocate extents
• Allocate space
• Row chaining and migration
• Create tables without segments

• The Enterprise Manager Support Workbench
• Register for security updates
• Work with Oracle Support
• My Oracle Support integration
• Log Service Requests
• Manage patches
• Apply a patch

• This course will aid the delegate in their preparation for the following exam: 1Z0-075 – Oracle Database 12c Administration
• Attending this course will help delegates gain many of the skills and product knowledge requirements as outlined in the exam objectives. Studying this course and its associated reference materials can form part of the preparation to achieve certification. Experience, practice, self-study and aptitude are also key requirements for exam success.
• Before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience. The Oracle website lists all exam requirements and these are updated regularly
• Exams are not included as part of the course

• Course technical content is subject to change without notice
• Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings
• Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions

• If you have a number of delegates to train then this course can be conducted on your premises or at a venue of your choice as a Closed event. Closed courses can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your business and can prove to be cost effective, convenient and relevant.
• There are options to take this as a Virtual course. Please contact us to discuss your specific requirements and to arrange a date to run this course as a virtual event to suit your schedule.