Module 1 : Oracle Database Software

Topics : Common database and leverage performance features

Module 2 : Architecture of Oracle Exadata

Topics : Advantages of offloading processing, software architecture of Oracle Exadata software,

Using smart flash Cache, enabling Flash Cache, Caching types and their advantages, describing
storage indexes, high-availability configurations best practices, power distribution unit, automatic
storage management and database, data-warehouse workloads

Module 3 : Administration and configuration

Topics : Compressing data using hybrid columnar and advanced compression, using various

network configuration methods, diskgroup and failure group choices, installation of Oracle Exadata
on the database machine, administering physical disks, network components overview, Integrated
Lights Out Management (ILOM) console

Module 4 : Backup and Recovery

Topics : Creating backup plans for Exadata, implementing recovery procedures, describing various

troubleshooting functions for backup & recovery processes, recovering storage cells, describing how
the storage servers of Exadata are backed-up internally

Module 5 : High Availability

Topics : General guidelines and best practices for high availability configurations, identifying various

failure scenarios and implementing recovery procedures, installing high availability software onto the
Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Module 6 : Monitoring

Topics : Installing Enterprise manager Exadata monitoring plug-in, Describing uses and purposes of

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Integrated Lights Out Management and Intelligent
Platform Management Interface (IPMI) for the DB machine, Configuring agent & the plugin as well as
Exadata target for EMCC

Module 7 : Software Maintenance

Topics : Description of software components maintenance, locating patches and  Exadata, applying

best practices for the Exadata patching process, describing oracle configuration manager, overview
of Exadata planned maintenance, introduction to troubleshooting of planned maintenance tasks

Module 8: Bulk Loading and Migration

Topics : Performing bulk loading operations, Using Database File System (DBFS) to perform bulk

loading activities, How to configure staging input data files for Database, Data loads using external
tables, Exadata migration strategies, choosing the best migration strategy

Module 9 : Resource Management

Topics : Configuring Input/Output & Database Resource Management, how to configure instance

caging ? Managing Input/Output on Oracle Exadata, setting up Input/Output database resource

management and resource management, managing Input/Output on Exadata

Module 10 : Support

Topics : ASR setup, Configuring Automatic Service Request, implementation requirements