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When an oracle Instance is started, background process are started. Background processes perform which two functions ? (Choose two)

  1. Perform I/O

  2. Lock rows that are not data dictionary rows

  3. Monitor other Oracle processes

  4. Connect users to the Oracle instance

  5. Execute SQL statments issued through an application

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A,C Correct answer
Explanation

Oracle background processes perform specialized I/O operations (like DBWn writing dirty buffers) and monitor other Oracle processes (like PMON cleaning up failed processes, SMON performing recovery). These functions are separated from user processes to improve efficiency.