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1-In a Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack, how many Exadata Storage Server Nodes are included?
2. How do you handle a situation where a customer requires additional licenses, such as database and options,
in addition to their Exadata order?
Any additional orders for DB and options may be included in the Oracle Exadata Doc, with some potential
considerations in the US (*)
3-At which of the following levels is the Database Machine considered to be Fault Tolerant?
5. In a Exadata Database Machine X2-8 Full Rack, how many Exadata Storage Server Nodes are included?
14
6. Which of the following are official hardware upgrade paths for the Exadata Database Machine?
Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Quarter Rack + Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Quarter Rack to Half Rack
Upgrade = Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack (*)
Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack + Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack to Full Rack Upgrade =
Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Full Rack (*)
7. True or false - Although the Oracle Database 11gR2 maximizes the value proposition for the Exadata Database
Machine, versions X2 and X8, earlier versions of 11g can be deployed in the Database Machine
Faux (*)
8. Emphasis on the complete solution and speed of deployment of the Database Machine is most appropriate in
which of the following sales scenarios?
Opportunity Registered in PRM Opportunity Qualified by local Exadata Team2 Approved/Accepted by Oracle
Regional Leaders Opportunity Configuration and Pricing Reviewed with partner Submission of HQAPP Executive
Summary to Oracle Approved Executive Summary Oracle Partner Contracts Drafts Order Doc Completed Order
Documents released to VAD or VAR (*)
10. In a Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Full Rack, how many Exadata Storage Server Nodes are included?
14
11. Upsell opportunities in a Database Machine sales cycle include which of the following?
12. Which of the following questions might be asked of a Solution Architect to identify a Exadata Database
Machine opportunity?
Faux (*)
14. True or false - Although the Database Machine requires Oracle Database 11g R2, the new capabilities of
11gR2 are not relevant to the current value propositions of the Exadata Database Machine.
Faux (*)
15. In a Exadata Database Machine X2-8 Full Rack, how many Oracle Database nodes are included?
2 (*)
16. True or false - the inclusion of a technical proof point for the Exadata Database Machine (Proof of Value) in
the sales cycle is a key to a shortened sales cycle
Faux (*)
17. In order to apply for the Exadata specialization, you must have the following pre-requisite specializations
Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning, Oracle
Enterprise Linux and Data Warehousing (*)
18. True or false - price holds are not available on Oracle Exadata Storage Server Hardware.
Vrai (*)
19. True or false - Oracle is the single point of contact for both hardware and software issues.
Vrai (*)
20. True or false - The value proposition of the Database Machine is based exclusively on extreme performance.
Faux (*)
21. What pricing metric is used to calculate the price of the Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software?
22. True or false - It is important to have a customer demonstrate commitment by agreeing to a Proof of Value
(POV) in the sales cycle for the Exadata Database Machine
Faux (*)
23. In a Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Full Rack, how many Oracle Database nodes are included?
8 (*)
24. On which price list is the Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software located?
25. In a Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack, how many Oracle Database nodes are included?
4 (*)
Terms & conditions, warranty, installation & configuration, and support services (*)
27. True or false - Exadata Storage Server Software support is included in the price of a Exadata Database
Machine X2-8 Full Rack?
Faux (*)
28. How do you calculate the price for Exadata Storage Server software licenses in a Exadata Database Machine
X2-2 Full Rack?
29.True or false - the inclusion of a technical proof point for the Exadata Database Machine (Proof of Value) in
the sales cycle is a key to a less costly sales cycle.
Faux (*)
31. What products are included in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software Support agreement?
32. When positioning the Exadata Database Machine in an OLTP opportunity, which of the following conditions
should be present to lead to a quick win?
33. How many physical disk drives are in a single Exadata Storage Server Node?
12 (*)
34. Which of the following is an example of a weakness in the offerings from competitors to the Database
Machine?
The competition cannot handle mixed OLTP and Reporting demands. (*)
35. Which of the following are considered Yellow lights around a Proof of Value (POV) for the Exadata Database
Machine?
36. Exadata Storage Server Software Support fees are calculated based on which of the following
37. True or false - the Database Machine is not optimally configured to run middleware.
Vrai (*)
38. If a customer chooses High Capacity (HC) Disk Drives instead of High Performance (HP) Disk Drives the price
is . . .
39. What versions of the Oracle Database are supported with the Database machine?
40. If a customer expects his capacity to grow from a Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack configuration to
a Full Rack configuration over time they should consider which of the following options
41. Which of the following are the top "Line of Business" priorities in a data warehousing opportunity?
Business Value, Ease of Access, Results in Time for Deadlines, and "Good Enough" Infrastructure. (*)
42. In a Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack, the customer can choose
Either High Performance (HP) or High Capacity (HC) Disk Drives but not a combination of the two. (*)
43. Which data warehousing sales scenario identifies a potential except for the Database Machine?
44. A customer has to purchase both the Exadata software and the hardware as a single purchase.
Faux (*)
45. When placing an order for Exadata, the partner is required to fill out
46. A customer has to purchase both the Exadata software and the hardware as a single purchase
Faux (*)
47. How do you calculate the price for Exadata Storage Server software licenses in a Exadata Database Machine?
Multiply the number of storage nodes x the number of disk drives (*)
48. Licensing must be on server boundaries. A customer cannot license a subset of cores within a database server
or a subset of disks within a storage server
Vrai (*)
49. True or false - The value proposition of the Exadata Database Machine is based primarily on extreme
performance.
Faux (*)
Enterprise Manager 12c is able to manage the hardware and software of an Exadata Database Machine. (*)
51. A customer has spent years optimizing their application to run on their HP servers and Netapp storage. Select
the best responses to their objection that moving to Exadata will require years of tuning.
52.When prospecting a lead for an Oracle Exadata opportunity, select the best statement(s) for overcoming an
objection that a customers application is not certified on Exadata?
53. During a meeting with a key Stakeholder, they raise an objection that they would like to purchase an
appliance solution, like IBM Puredata or Teradata, to simplify deployment. Select the most appropriate response.
Oracle is a single point of development, sales and support for Exadata. Oracle's installation services set all
initialization parameters by installing a working optimized database on delivery. (*)
54. Select the correct statement about the Oracle Exadata X3's ability to scale out and scale upwards
A customer may purchase a 1/8th rack to meet its current needs and upgrade online to a 1/4, 1/2 or full rack (*)
55. To design a Maximum Availability Architecture with Exadata which of the following Oracle products will
provide high availability?
56. In building a business case for Exadata, the 4 steps to get to discovery are to 1 - Qualify Customer's Interest,
2 - Create a Value Hypothesis, 3 - Customer Education & Sponsorship, and 4 - Perform Value Discovery
Vrai (*)
57. The following is a key pain point for ExaBI, not Exadata. The inability quickly get access to the right detailed
data when needed for business decisions.
Faux (*)
58. Identify the key stakeholders for a VALUE BASED Oracle Exadata Opportunity?
60. True or false - Leveraging of commodity components is one of the major contributors to the lower total cost
of ownership for the Database Machine.
Vrai (*)
61. In general, it is more important to drive the critical IT support for the Exadata Database Machine than to
attempt to develop a business case.
Faux (*)
63. What key components of the architecture make the statement "Exadata is architected for Flash" true.
Compression (*)
64. What are examples of data that can be stored in the Exadata Storage Expansion rack?
65. Select all the true statements regarding the Exadata1/8th rack offering
Smaller and lower cost entry-level system with easy upgradability to larger Exadata Database Machine (*)
Makes breakthrough Exadata technology available more broadly to: smaller systems, departments, smaller
companies, and smaller countries. (*)
66.During an Exadata opportunity, security requirements are uncovered. Which of the following Oracle products
can be positioned that complement Exadata?
67. The combination of Big Data, Exadata and Exalytics allow you to "Get to Information." Big Data facilitates the
acquiring of large amounts of unstructured data, Exadata organizes and analyzes the data into structured data
that can be analyzed using Exalytics.
Vrai (*)
68. Exadata and Enterprise Manager 12c are key enablers for cloud architectures. Select the key features that
position it well as an enabler for the cloud.
69. Information services companies are challenged to manage their ever growing data volumes. The priorities
driving IT investment in an Exadata solution include a consolidated data platform that can support the
consolidation of enterprise data assets
Vrai (*)
70. Select the metrics that may yield an unsuccessful business case that is highly competitive and limited to IT
spend
71. During an Exadata sales cycle, the customer objects stating it is risky to move their application to a
preconfigured machine. Your response is
Deploying to an Exadata Machine offers less deployment risk as it is delivered assembled, debugged and ready-
to-run
72. What is the requirement for an application running on the Exadata Database Machine?
The application must be validated on Oracle Database 11gR2 and higher, Oracle Automatic Storage Manager
(ASM) and Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris. (*)
73. Select all the true statements regarding the Exadata1/8th rack offering
Smaller and lower cost entry-level system with easy upgradability to larger Exadata Database Machine (*)
Makes breakthrough Exadata technology available more broadly to: smaller systems, departments, smaller
companies, and smaller countries. (*)
One of the value propositions of the Exadata Database Machine is performance (*)
One of the value propositions of the Exadata Database Machine is lower cost (*)
75. The combination of Big Data, Exadata and Exalytics allow you to "Get to Information."
Big Data facilitates the acquiring of large amounts of unstructured data, Exadata organizes and analyzes the data
into structured data that can be analyzed using Exalytics. (*)
76. Customers deploying Oracle Applications on Exalogic and Exadata derive benefits among others, in the
following areas. Choose all that apply
Supportability (*)
Performance (*)
Manageability (*)
Consolidation (*)
77. In general, for sales success, it is more important that the business case _____________________.
78. If a customer prefers a general purpose system that still utilizes Exadata components but gives them the
option of the database and application together on the same machine, what other Oracle solutions can be
positioned?
79. Select the best way to describe the relationship between the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) and Exadata
80. Select the correct statement about Oracle Exadata's ability to scale out and scale upwards
A customer may purchase a 1/8th rack to meet its current needs and upgrade online to a 1/4, 1/2 or full rack (*)
81. Select the key pain point for Exadata as it relates to business intelligence:
The inability quickly get access to the right detailed data when needed for business decisions. (*)
83. Exadata is Oracle’s strategic database platform for all Oracle Database workloads except:
84. According to industry analysts, what is the foundation for Exadata's scale-out computing.
Oracle Database licenses are separate and must be licensed for the databse server (*)
86. Select the packaged applications that can run on Exadata
Siebel (*)
Peoplesoft (*)
SAP (*)
87. A valid response to the objection, "Oracle is more expensive to manage than competitors" is:
Improvements in the Oracle Database made it increasingly self tuning and self-managing. The Exadata Storage
Server Software transparently pushes database optimization to storage eliminating much of the tuning needed for
BI and ad-hoc analysis. (*)
88. On which price list is the Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software located?
89. Identify the metrics that facilitate a business case that tightly aligns with business vision and core priorities
Speed to market to enable competitive advantages (*)
90. Which of the following questions would NOT be asked of a Solution Architect to identify a Exadata Database
Machine opportunity?
91. According to market analysts, select the four primary database management challenges that face enterprise
IT
Security (*)
92. When identifying Key Business Requirements, select some of the business capabilities your customer may be
trying to enable.
94. Which of the following are not key value propositions for the Database Machine?
95. Select the activity in the sales cycle that may lead to a longer sales cycle
96. The combination of Big Data, Exadata and Exalytics allow you to "Get to Information."
Big Data facilitates the acquiring of large amounts of unstructured data, Exadata organizes and analyzes the data
into structured data that can be analyzed using Exalytics. (*)
97. What are examples of data that can be stored in the Exadata Storage Expansion rack?
LOBs (*)
99. Select the Oracle products that facilitate Exadata's massive scale out capabilities
100. Consolidated environments inherently have complex workloads mixing sequential and random access
patterns. Due to this complex nature, the Exadata Database Machine is:
101. Select the statement that most applies to the Exadata Database Machine
The Exadata Database Machine is often referred to as the "In Memory Machine" (*)
102. Upsell opportunities in a Database Machine sales cycle around performance, efficiency, analytics & data
integration include which of the following?
OLAP (*)
103. Oracle Exadata is hailed as the all-memory machine. How is this possible?
All IO for active data can be done to flash memory & RAM memory (*)
104. Choose the systems that join Oracle Exadata as members of Oracle's Engineered Systems Family
105. Exadata serves as the best machine for Database Consolidation because
Exadata offers extreme performance for complex workloads that mix OLTP, DW, batch, reporting (*)
106. Select the two correct configurations for the Exadata X3-8 and Exadata X4-2.
107. Select one of the major contributors to the lower total cost of ownership for the Database Machine.
Vrai (*)
109. The major components of an Exadata Database machine are the Database Server, the storage server and
the InfiniBand connection.
Vrai
110. A customer approaches you about Oracle Exadata's new 1/8th rack for a departmental system, which of the
following statements is most true.
Oracle Exadata's 1/8 rack is perfectly suited for departmental systems or smaller companies
111. Although the Oracle Exadata X3 Database Machine is being hailed as the "In Memory Machine" it is still best
suited for warehouse workloads making it the "In Memory Warehouse Machine.
Faux
112. Why does Hybrid Columnar Compression yield so much greater compression than typical compression?
HCC utilizes a combination of both row and columnar methods for storing data. This hybrid approach achieves the
compression benefits of columnar storage, while avoiding the performance shortfalls of a pure columnar format.
(*)
113. Which of the following is an example of a weakness in the offerings from competitors to the Exadata
Database Machine
Competitors do not offer Oracle Database Integration, i.e. database offload functionality. (*)
The competition cannot handle mixed OLTP and Reporting demands. (*)
The Exadata Database Machines is a pre-built fully integrated system that requires much less resources to
implement. (*)
114. A customer would rather deploy their solution on commodity hardware. Select appropriate responses to this
objection.
While commodity hardware is cheaper than Exadata, the benefits associated with Exadata outweigh the cost
savings. (*)
Showcase a business case that outlines how they can save money with Exadata (*)
Perform discovery to move from an IT centric discussion to a Business Value discussion (*)
115. A valid response to the objection "Oracle cannot run OLTP and Warehouse workloads in the same machine."
is that "Oracle Exadata excels at OLTP and data warehousing. Oracle has a very large portfolio of data warehouse
and OLTP reference customers who can testify to the performance, scalability and analytical richness of the
Oracle Database on Exadata.
Vrai
116. A customer does not believe Exadata is a viable solution because it doesn't have data models/business
solutions to match Teradata. The best response is:
Oracle has integrated BI data models sold as applications and industry data models and solutions, greatly
speeding up deployment and reducing costs. (*)
117. A customer already has 2 Exadata racks and would like to add a 1/2 rack system to use for QA purposes.
They would also like to purchase another 1/2 rack system to use for remote disaster recovery. Describe the
solution you would propose.
A 1/2 rack Exadata DB Machine for QA for the production/stage site and a 1/2 rack Exadata DB Machine for the
disaster recovery site
118. Select the key reason why Exadata is well positioned to support Cloud
Exadata offers the ability to add capacity to the cloud by adding additional racks of Exadata. It also has great
database consolidation features. (*)
119. A value hypothesis is not critical in providing focus and depth in an Exadata discovery effort
Faux (*)
120. To quantify the business problem around "Increasing Capacity and Throughput Performance," explore the
revenue and profitability impact of solving your customer's problem
Vrai (*)
121. Identify key activities that the account team can engage in prior to meeting with the customer to do
"discovery" for Exadata.
Review Industry Factors and determine how their industry uses technology
Eliminates disk I/Os if MIN and MAX can never match “where” clause of a query (*)
123. What is the difference between a 1/8th rack and a 1/4 rack.
The 1/8th rack has the same physical hardware as the 1/4 rack. All the memory, half the disks and half the flash
cards are available. (*)
124. The Exadata Smart Flash Cache Write back (FCWB) caches write I/Os in flash in addition to read I/Os. It
accelerates write intensive workloads like frequently updated tables and indexes.
Vrai (*)
126. What are the 3 major software components of the Exadata Storage Server?
CELLSRV (*)
127. Identify the metrics that facilitate a business case that tightly aligns with business vision and core priorities
128. True or false - Leveraging of commodity components is one of the major contributors to the lower total cost
of ownership for the Database Machine
Vrai (*)
129. ODA and Exadata are complementary offerings. ODA, engineered for extreme simplicity, can be an on-ramp
to Exadata, engineered for Extreme Performance
Vrai (*)
130. Exadata and Enterprise Manager 12c are key enablers for cloud architectures. Select the key features that
position it well as an enabler for the cloud.
Clustering
131. According to market analysts, what percentage of data warehouses, currently deployed in 2013, will fail to
scale to meet new information volume, and complexity demands.
85%
132. Although Oracle Database 11gR2 maximizes the value proposition for the Database Machine, earlier versions
of 11g can be deployed on Exadata
Faux
133. The Exadata Flash Cache feature of the Exadata Storage Server Software intelligently caches database
objects in flash memory, replacing slow mechanical I/O operations to disk with very rapid flash memory
operations.
Vrai
134. The unique technology driving the performance advantages of the Exadata Database Machine is the Oracle
Exadata Storage Server, and its software. By pushing database processing to the Exadata Storage Servers all the
disks can operate in parallel reducing database server CPU consumption while using much less bandwidth to
move data between storage and database servers
Vrai
135. Select the technology features that the Exadata Storage Server Software provides.
Smart Scan
Storage Indexes
136. What is the difference between an Exadata X3-2 machine and an Exadata X3-8 machine?
The X3-8 is comprised of 2 large SMP database/compute servers while the X3-2 can scale to as many as 8
database/compute servers as processing requirements increase. (*)
CellCLI is the Cell Command Line Interface that used to administer and monitor the Exadata Storage Servers. (*)
Automatically moves all active data into flash and RAM memory while keeping less active data on disk. (*)
139. What are the 3 major software components of the Exadata Database Server?
ASM (*)
140. Focusing on lowering cost of servers and storage and price/performance yield a business case that is highly
competitive and limited to IT spend
Vrai
141. When prospecting a lead for an Oracle Exadata opportunity, select the best statement(s) for overcoming an
objection that a customers application is not certified on Exadata?
Exadata fundamentally is the Oracle Database with a very fast storage subsystem (*)
142. A customer has spent years optimizing their application to run on their HP servers and Netapp storage.
Select the best responses to their objection that moving to Exadata will require years of tuning.
Performance tuning, and stress testing performed at Oracle is done on the exact same configuration that the
customer has ensuring better performance and higher quality. (*)
143. A customer would like to use Golden Gate to sync their two Exadata machines across two sites. Select the
most appropriate response
Oracle GoldenGate can sync Exadata machines and is a viable solution (*)
144. A customer needs to consolidate several databases onto an Exadata full rack. Their largest database is
several petabytes due to the archive data that must be kept online. There are several other databases, some that
run RAC and some that do not. The databases are a mix of OLTP and Warehouse workloads. They would also like
to try to compress their data using all methods available. All databases are validated to run Oracle 11gR2 and
higher. Describe the solution that you would propose.
1 Full Exadata Rack, 1 Storage Expansion Rack, Database Licenses, Real Application Cluster Licenses, and
Advanced Compression Licenses (*)
145.