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AD-UTILITIES Interview Questions or FAQs
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6/7/2019 Oracle Applications DBA: AD-UTILITIES Interview Questions or FAQs
is there to be applied. How do you proceed?
53) A patch readme suggests to apply it for R12. How do you decide if you can apply this patch for your system which is on 12.0.5?
54) How many patches do you apply for a week?
55) A patch failed while c-driver is going on. What will you do? Also for d and g drivers?
56) A patch hangs for a long time while d-driver. If It is running a sql script, If it is generating forms, , How do you proceed in each
scenario?
57) If a patch fails while compiling jsps and relinking, how do you proceed in both issues?
58) What is ad-controller?
59) A worker hangs , What is your course of action?
60) How do you restart a job? How do you assign a job to a different worker?
61) How do you restart a worker?
62) What is skipping a worker and how to do it?
63) How do you check which drivers of a patch are applied ?
64) When do you need to merge patches?
65) Which patches can be merged and which not?
66) Can a Payables patch be merged with HRMS patch? Why or why not?
67) How do you merge patches?
68) How do you check a file version?
69) Adident shows number of line entries for a file version? Which one to consider?
70) What is auto-config?
71) How do you run auto-config in your organization?
72) How can we run auto-config in test mode?
73) What does adchkcfg.sh do ?
74) Where are the output files created when we run adchkcfg.sh?
75) What is a difference file and how do you analyze it?
76) What are the phases while running autoconfig?
77) What happens in INSTE8_PRF phase and INSTE8_APPLY phase?
78) What are the essential files needed for running autoconfig?
79) What is a template file and a driver file? What do they consist of?
80) How do you run autoconfig in multi-node environment (shared and non-shared file system)?
81) What does autoconfig process do? Explain.
82) Do you need to bring down your database while running auto config? Why or why not?
83) Can you run auto config in DB tier while the database is up? Why?
84) When do we need to run autoconfig?
85) Where is autoconfig log file located?
86) What is a customization? How do you know there are customizations in your system?
87) How to preserve customizations?
88) Autoconfig failed while PROFILE phase, what will you do?
89) Autoconfig failed during APPLY phase, what next?
90) Can autoconfig be run in parallel in all nodes of application? If so how?
91) What are the errors you faced while running autoconfig? How did you resolve?
92) Your XML file is corrupted and you don’t have access to backup xml. What will you do?
93) Where is autoconfig script in database tier?
94) You need to run autoconfig on Apps and DB tiers.Which tier will you run first?
95) What is DBC file? Where is it located?
96) How do you check status of a dbc file?
97) Autoconfig fails when creating dbc file? What will you do?
98) What are the options to recreate a dbc file?
99) What is Admin App Server? How to run it?
100) Do we require java to run autoconfig? Why?
101) What is cloning?
102) What are the pre-reqs for cloning complete Application file system?
103) What does pre clone script do on source system?
104) Can we run pre clone script on Apps tier when services are up? Why?
105) Where is the adpreclone.pl script located in DB and APPS? How do you start it in both ?
106) What is the precaution you need to take before copying the file system to Target ?
107) Where is adcfgclone.pl located ? Where is its log file created?
108) What are the prompts adcfgclone.pl asks for on target system?
109) What are the errors you faced while cloning? How did you resolve?
110) Can we clone a cloned system? How?
111) How do we clone a single-node to multi-node system?
112) Can we clone a multi-node to single-node ? How?
113) Do profile options get updated as in source when cloning ?
114) Which post clone steps you need to do manually?
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