Installation and Upgrade Enhancements

[] Install Oracle Database 11g

[] Upgrade your database to Oracle Database 11g
[] Use online patching

Storage Enhancements
[] Create and maintain bigfile tablespaces
[] Rename tablespaces
[] Create a default permanent tablespace
[] Describe Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
[] Set up initialization parameter files for ASM and database instances
[] Execute SQL commands with ASM file names
[] Use ASMCMD Command-Line Interface
[] Start up and shut down ASM instances
[] Administer ASM disk groups
[] Setup ASM fast mirror resynch
[] Understand scalability and performance enhancements
SQL Performance Analyzer
[] Using SQL Performance Analyzer

SQL Plan Management

[] SQL Plan Baseline Architecture
[] Set up SQL Plan Baseline
[] Using SQL Plan Baseline

Database Replay
[] Overview of Workload Capture and Replay
[] Using Workload capture and replay

Miscellaneous New Features

[] Describe and use the enhanced online table redefinition
[] Use fine-grained auditing for DML statements
[] Use Enhanced DDL - Apply the improved table lock mechanism, Create invisible indexes
[] Use Query Result Cache and PL/SQL Result Cache
[] Create temporary tablespace groups
[] Assign temporary tablespace groups to users
[] Temporary Tablespace Enhancements

Oracle SecureFiles
[] Use Secure File LOBS to store documents with Compression, Encryption, De-duplication,
Caching
[] Use SQL and PL/SQL APIs to access Secure File LOBS

SQL Tuning
[] Use the SQL Tuning Advisor
[] SQL Access Advisor Overview
[] Create SQL Access Advisor analysis session using PL/SQL
[] Setup and modify Automatic SQL Tuning
[] Interpret reports generated by Automatic SQL Tuning
[] Use SQL Repair Advisor

Intelligent Infrastructure Enhancements

[] Monitor and maintain the AWR
[] Creating and using AWR baselines
[] Control Automated Maintenance Tasks
[] Using Database Resource Manager New Features
[] Simplify management tasks by using the Scheduler
[] Create a job, program, schedule and window
[] View information about job executions and job instances
[] Monitor and manage server-generated alerts

Performance Enhancements
[] Use Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)
[] ADDM Enhancments in 11g
[] Use Automatic Shared Memory Management
[] Setup Automatic Memory Management
[] Enhancements in statistics collection

Space Management and Partitioning

[] Reduce space related error conditions through proactively managing tablespace usage
[] Reclaim wasted space from tables and indexes using the segment shrink functionality
[] Use the Segment Advisor
[] Use the Undo Advisor
[] Use Automatic Undo Retention Tuning
[] Implement the new partitioning methods
[] Employ Data Compression

Load and Unload Data

[] Transport tablespaces across different platforms
[] Explain Data Pump architecture
[] Monitor a Data Pump job
[] Use Data Pump export and import
[] Create external tables for data population

Backup and Recovery Enhancements

[] Simplify file management for all recovery-related file
[] Reduce restore time by applying incremental backups to data file image copies
[] Simplify recovery after opening the database with the RESETLOGS option
[] Speed backup times by creating faster incremental backups
[] Minimize load requirements by specifying limits in backup time windows
[] Save storage space through writing compressed backup sets
[] Managing Archive logs
Using Flashback and Logminer
[] Configure and use Flashback Database
[] Recover dropped tables with the Flashback Drop feature
[] Retrieve row history information with the Flashback Versions Query feature
[] Audit or recover FROM transactions with the Flashback Transaction Query feature
[] Recover tables to a point in time with the Flashback Table feature
[] Back-out transactions using Flashback Transaction

Diagnosability Enhancements
[] Setup Automatic Diagnostic Repository
[] Use Support Workbench
[] Run health checks

Using the Data Recovery Advisor

[] Overview of Data Recovery Advisor
[] Repairing data failures using Data Recovery Advisor
[] Perform proactive health check of the database

Security: New Features

[] Configure the password file to use case sensitive passwords
[] Encrypt a tablespace
[] Configure fined grained access to network services