1) Explain Oracle Architecture

2) What will happen if the instance crash during the hot backup?
3) How to put database in archivelog mode assuming the database is currently
running?
4) Can you use ALTER DATABASE OPENRESETLOGS without performing incomplete
recovery?
5) What is incomplete recovery and under which situations its required?
6) What will you do if archive destination is full?
7) What is the init.ora parameter UNDO_TABLESPACE and UNDO_RETENTION ?
8) Explain how SERVICE_NAMES, DB_NAME and INSTANCE_NAME parameters can be used?
9) Users are not able to connect the database, please specify the troubleshooting
approach.
10) How will you find how many users are currently connected to the database?
11) Explain DYNAMIC SGA sizing.
12) What is DYNAMIC SERVICE registration?
13) You have relocated the control files to some other location. At database
startup using spfile
you got an error "Unable to identify control file", what is the next step.
14) Explain Background Processes related to RAC.
15) What type of configuration does DATA GUARD support?
16) Where are the RMAN resources allocated when invoking rman from client to take a
DB backup on server?
17) How will you find out whether the database is started using spfile or pfile?
18) What is the difference between spfile and pfile?
19) Database is in ARCHIVELOG mode but automatic archiving is not enabled, what
will happen?
20) When do you get a SNAPSHOT TOO OLD ERROR?
21) What are the types of backups available in ORACLE?
22) Can you take a COLD backup of the database which is in NOARCHIVELOG mode using
RMAN? HOW?
23) How will you drop the current redo log group?
24) Please specify the parameters related to archiving.
25) What is the difference between ALTER DATABASE RECOVER USING BACKUP CONTROLFILE
UNTIL CANCEL
and RECOVER DATABASE USING BACKUP CONTROLFILE UNTIL CANCEL?
26) How to take backup of CONTROLFILE?
27) What is a RMAN RECOVERY CATALOG?
28) How can you reduce the overhead of adding datafiles to the standby database
when files are added to
the primary database?
29) Where do you add the STANDBY_FILE_MANAGEMENT?
30) Can you create a standby database on the same host as that of primary database?
31) Can you connect to a database if the listener is not up and running?
32) Please specify the steps required for installing and configuring automatic
snapshot collection using STATSPACK.
33) Can you relocate the datafiles of a tablespace when the database is up and
running? How?
34) How will you verify the correctness of the net service configured in the
tnsnames.ora when the target database
to which it connects is not up and running?
35) Can we have a listener for a database running on another server? How do we do
that?
36) Can a listener listen for multiple databases? How?
37) Who can do a full database export/import?
38) How can you use the password file for authentication?
39) How to trace a session? Where are the trace files generated and what are the
parameters related to trace?
40) What things will you check if the database is not going down after SHUTDOWN
IMMEDIATE?
41) When you tried starting listener, it errored out "The port is already in use".
How will you
check at Unix level which process is using that port?
42) What is Oracle Inventory? Where is it located? What are the types of
inventories?
43) What is the use of the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ORA_NLS33?
44) While logging in to SQLPLUS as "sqlplus '/ as sysdba'" it errored out saying
sqlplus : command not found.
What is the reason?
45) Where will you check what components are installed with your Oracle 9i
software?
46) Where can you locate the version of the database software installed?
47) Please explain the steps to clone ORACLE DB software to an entirely new server.
48) Please explain the steps to clone a database to a new server using the hot
backup of the source.
49) Please explain the steps to do RMAN clone of the database to a new server.
50) How do you compile invalids?