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Multiple choice technology databases

You work as a database administrator for TCS .com. In your production database, the size of Database Buffer Cache needs to be increased immediately for the current as well as future instances of the database. The Oracle instance has been configured to accommodate any changes in the size of the memory structures. At this is production database, you want to accomplish this task with no impact on the user's connections. Which activity must you have completed before accomplishing this task?

  1. You must have started the database instance in restricted mode.

  2. You must have started the database instance in NORMALmode.

  3. You must have started the database instance with server parameter file.

  4. You must have started the database instance but must not have mounted.

  5. You must have started the database instance but must not have opened.
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C Correct answer
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Multiple choice technology databases

Your TCS .com database is in ARCHIVELOG mode. The data file that belongs to the SYSTEMtablespacehas become corrupted. Up to what point can you recover the database?

  1. Until last commit

  2. Until the time you perform recovery

  3. Until the time the date file got corrupted

  4. Until the point where the last transaction begun

  5. You cannot recover the SYSTEM tablespaceand must re-create the database.
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A Correct answer
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Multiple choice technology databases

You work as a database administrator for TCS .com. The UNDO_RETENTION parameter in your database is set to 1000 and undoretention is not guaranteed. Which statement regarding retention of undo data is correct?

  1. Undo data becomes obsolete after 1,000 seconds.

  2. Undo data gets refreshed after 1,000 seconds.

  3. Undo data will be stored permanently after 1,000 seconds.

  4. Committed undo data would be retained for 1,000 seconds if free undo space is available.

  5. Undo data will be retained in the UNDOtablespacefor 1,000 seconds, then it gets movedmovedto the TEMPORARY tablespace to provide read consistency.
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D Correct answer
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Multiple choice technology databases

You work as a database administrator for TCS .com. On a Monday morning, you find the database instance aborted. After inspecting the alert log file, you execute the STARTUP command in SQL*Plus to bring the instance up. What statement is true?

  1. PMON coordinates media recovery.

  2. SMON coordinates instance recovery.

  3. PMON coordinates instance recovery.

  4. Undo Advisor would roll back all uncommitted transactions.

  5. SQL*PLUS reports an error with the message asking you to perform instance recovery.
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B Correct answer
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Multiple choice technology databases

You work as a database administrator for TCS .com. The database is open. A media failure has occurred, resulting in loss of all the control files in your database. Which statement regarding the database instance is true in this scenario?

  1. The instance would hang.

  2. The instance needs to be shut down.

  3. The instance would be in the open state.

  4. The instance would abort in such cases.

  5. The instance would be in the open and invalid state.

  6. The instance would in the open state, but all the background processes will be restarted.
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D Correct answer
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Multiple choice technology databases

In your DB -multiplexed online redo log files,one of the members in a group is lost due to media failure? You wud..

  1. import the database from the last export

  2. restore all the members in the group from the last backup

  3. drop the lost member from the database and then add a new member to the group

  4. restore all the database files from the backup and then perform a complete recovery

  5. restore all the database files from the backup and then perform an incomplete recovery
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C Correct answer
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