Grid Infrastructure Concepts

• What is a Cluster
• Grid Foundation Components
• Oracle Clusterware Architecture
• Oracle Clusterware Software and Storage
• Describe ASM Architecture
• Creating and Managing ASM Disk Groups
• Creating and Managing ASM Cluster Filesystems
• Job Role Separation

Grid Infrastructure Installation and Configuration

• Hardware Requirements
• Network Requirements
• DNS and DHCP Configuration
• Grid Plug and Play Considerations
• Single Client Access Names
• Post installation tasks

Administering Oracle Clusterware

• Managing Clusterware with Enterprise Manager
• Determining the Location of the Oracle Clusterware Configuration Files
• Backing Up and Recovering the Voting Disk
• Adding, Deleting, or Migrating Voting Disks
• Locating the OCR Automatic Backups
• Oracle Local Registry
• Migrating OCR Locations to ASM
• Managing Network Settings

Managing Oracle Clusterware

• Prerequisite Steps for Extending a Cluster
• Using addNode.sh to Add a Node to a Cluster
• Rolling Patches, And Rolling Upgrades
• Comparing Software Versions With the Active Version
• Installing A Patchset With the OUI Utility
• Installing A Patch With The opatch Utility

Oracle Clusterware High Availability

• Oracle Clusterware high availability components
• Contrasting policy-managed and administration managed databases
• Server pool functionality
• The Generic and Free Server Pools
• Application placement policies
• Application Virtual IPs
• Managing application resources
• High availability events

Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware

• Oracle Clusterware Log Files
• Gathering Log Files Using diagcollection.pl
• Resource Debugging
• Component-level Debugging
• Tracing For Java-based Tools
• Troubleshooting the Oracle Cluster Registry

Administering ASM Instances

• ASM Initialization Parameters
• Adjusting ASM Instance Parameters in SPFILEs
• Starting and Stopping ASM Instances Using srvctl
• Starting and Stopping ASM Instances Using ASMCA and ASMCMD
• Starting and Stopping ASM Instances Containing Cluster Files
• Starting and Stopping the ASM Listener

Administering ASM Disk Groups

• Creating And Deleting ASM Disk Groups
• ASM Disk Group Attributes
• ASM Disk Group Maintenance Tasks
• Preferred Read Failure Groups
• Viewing ASM Disk Statistics
• Performance And Scalability Considerations For ASM Disk Groups

ASM Files, Directories, and Templates

• Using Different Client Tools to Access ASM Files
• Fully Qualified ASM File Name Format
• Creating and Managing ASM files, Directories and Aliases
• Managing Disk Group Templates
• Managing ASM ACL With Command Line Utilities
• Managing ASM ACL with Enterprise Manager

Administering ASM Cluster File Systems

• ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
• Managing ASM Volumes
• Implementing ASM Cluster File System
• Managing ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
• ACFS Snapshots
• Using Command Line Tools To Manage ACFS

Real Application Clusters Database Installation

• Installing The Oracle Database Software
• Creating A Cluster Database
• Post–database Creation Tasks
• Single-Instance Conversion Using the DBCA
• Single-Instance Conversion Using rconfig
• Background Processes Specific to Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC Administration

• Enterprise Manager Cluster Database Pages
• Redo Log Files In A RAC Environment
• Undo Tablespaces In A RAC Environment
• Starting And Stopping RAC Databases And Instances
• Initialization Parameters In A RAC Environment
• Transparent Data Encryption and Wallets in RAC
• Quiescing RAC Databases

Managing Backup and Recovery for RAC

• Protecting Against Media Failure
• Parallel Recovery in RAC
• Archived Log File Configurations
• RAC Backup and Recovery Using EM
• Archived Redo File Conventions in RAC
• Channel Connections to Cluster Instances
• Distribution of Backups

Monitoring and Tuning the RAC Database

• Determining RAC-Specific Tuning Components
• Tuning Instance Recovery in RAC
• RAC-Specific Wait Events, Global Enqueues, and System Statistics
• Implementing the Most Common RAC Tuning Tips
• Using the Cluster Database Performance Pages
• Using the Automatic Workload Repository in RAC
• Using Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor in RAC

Services

• Configure and Manage Services in a RAC environment
• Using Services with Client Applications
• Using Services with the Database Resource Manager
• Use Services with the Scheduler
• Configuring Services Aggregation and Tracing
• Managing Services From the Command Line
• Managing Services With Enterprise Manager

Design for High Availability

• Designing a Maximum Availability Architecture
• Determine the Best RAC and Data Guard Topologies
• Data Guard Broker Configuration files in a RAC Environment
• Identifying Successful Disk I/O strategies