Non Technical Questions 1. Tell about yourself? 2. Daily activities or roles and responsibilities 3. Whats your DB size? 4.

. How many DB your handling? 5. Why are you looking change? 6. Tell about your client? 7. Max. Problem resolving time? 8. Did you escalate (raise) any ticket to L3 support? Why? 9. Which type of tickets you receive? 10. How many tickets you receive per day? 11. What is your team size? 12. L3 reporting person and L2 reporting person? 13. What technology you are using? What platform your working? 14. What types of errors you face in alert log? 15. What type of backup tool you are using? Whats your backup strategy like weekly or monthly? 16. What type of backup utility youre using? 17. What tool you use for performance tuning? General 1. How to check the listner status without using LSNRCTL cmd? 2. use of DBVERIFY cmd 3. How to check ur db running in RAC or not? (v$thread,v$log) 4. What is the use of tnsping? 5. Diff between global database name and db_name parameter? 6. Grant connect,resource to scottt; Does connect role is exist in 10g? 7. what u see in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin directory 8. What is undo and its use? 9. How to find block corruption and its solution? 10. Use of Log miner concepts? 11. What happen when we issue select * from emp in oracle database? 12. Use of TAF in RAC? 13. Explain any 3 parameters which causes performance problem? 14. How to find idle users? 15. How to recover a dropped table from yesterdays bkp? 16. Oracle installation steps? 17. How to Re-organize a table? 18. Your trying to add datafiles to DB at that time your receiving this error Cannot add any more datafiles limit exceeded, at this time what u do? 19. How to check the DB growth? 20. How to find DB size?

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21. What is quota management? 22. What is pga_aggregate_target parameter? 23. Which process read data from datafiles? 24. Which utility using to check oracle error in O/S? 25. Snapshot too old error explain? And solution? 26. How you find db block corruption without using RMAN? 27. You are new to RAC env, then how will u come to know howmany nodes are running in RAC? 28. How to check the status of RAC nodes? 29. What is voting disks? 30. What is TAF? 31. What is library cache? What u will see and what u will do? 32. What is checkpoint incomplete? Solution? 33. What is fractured blocks? Why? 34. When and why you will rebuild the index? What happens after the rebuild? 35. Does any view available to check SCN? 36. what is high SCN and low SCN 37. What happen when we issue select * from emp? Explain detail process? 38. Explain use of flash recovery area? 39. If flash recovery area is filled to 100% what action you take? 40. Ora-01658 unable to extend in tablespace? What is the cause and action you take? In which view you will find free,used,total space of datafiles? 41. How to rename a DB? (using nid utility) 42. You encounter ora-01555 snapshot too old error, what you will increase first undo tablespace size or undo_retention? 43. How will you estimate how much space is needed for undo tablespace? Give the formula 44. What is checkpoint incomplete? Explain solution? 45. How to do schema refresh or re-organization? 46. How much disk space is needed for rebuilding indexes? 47. What is the sga_max_size? 48. How to startup database automatically after the server rebots? (Change the entry in oratab file) 49. How will you move the table to different tablepsace? And what happen to the dependent objects like function, procedures,indexes 50. How will u purge the alert logfiles , if alert log file has 1GB, so how will u purge the old entries 51. What is the functionality of SGA_TARGET? 52. Have you done CPU patches? 53. What is the use of B-tree index? Explain the steps how will you rebuild the index? What happens after re-build? 54. Explain the 9i memory architecture? Explain use of shared pool and PGA 55. Difference between PGA and sort area size 56. What is the use of large pool? If large pool is set to zero, what is the impact 57. How you will find chained and migrated rows and how to resolve it? 58. If sga_max_size=1G and sga_target=0 then does ASMM is enabled?

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59. If you restore the table using flashback table from recyclebin , whether the index belong to this table will be build or not? 60. If suppose you drop an index? Can we find this index on recyclebin or can we flashback the index from recyclebin? 61. What is the use of db_uniqe_name parameter? 62. How to resolve row chaining? 63. If suppose we have 1 million rows in a table and found more chained rows, due to go for export and import this large table, what you will do? 64. How to find number of rows in your table? (num_rows from user_tables) 65. Tell new features in 10g? 66. If sga_target=500m, then what are the components of SGA will be allocated automatically? 67. How to configure a flashback for a database, what are the parameters? 68. What is the use of remote_loging_passwordfile parameter 69. Use of profiles? What are the things you will set in profiles before to assign to users? 70. How to trace a user session in oracle using dbms pkg?

Datapump
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What is the use of COMPRESS=Y in export? How to export metadata only in export 9i? (ROWS=N) Use STATISTICS parameter in export? Diff between exp/imp and Datapump? Performance parameter in exp/imp and Datapump? Datapump steps? Export failure, what u do? Diff between exp/imp and expdp/impdp? I have full db export, but I want to import only DDL without indexes, how could this possible? 10. What we are using COMPRESS=Y in export? 11. Without using imp/exp how will you reorganize the table in 10g? 12. Explain features of Datapump 13. What is the use of remap_tablespace,remap_schema parameter in datapump 14. In transportable tablespace what are the objects are not included?

Backup and recovery

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. How to take cold backup in RMAN? How to configure RMAN? RMAN clone steps How to solve missing archivelog and to take remaining archivelog backup? What is ora-3113? & solution? (end of communication channel) Did you attend any disaster recovery? What is the use of crosscheck cmd?

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8. How to recover a DB in disaster? 9. If u misses one archive log, what will u do? 10. Your DB is crashed or shutdown abnormally how could u bring up the db again? 11. Some Datafile location is crashed, then how could u restore and recover datafiles using RMAN? 12. How to detect block corruption & solution with RMAN and without using RMAN? 13. U lost one datafile, how to recover? (DB noarchivelog mode and no backup) 14. In noarchivelog mode what type of backup u can take? 15. Can you take online backup of controlfile? 16. What is obsolete parameter in RMAN? Explain? 17. What happen when the tablespace in begin backup mode? Will DBWR write the data in datafiles or not? Why? 18. Why excess of redo or archivelog generates in hot backup? 19. How will you configure RMAN after upgrading DB? (RMAN>upgrade catalog) 20. How to see the archivelog backup in RMAN? ( List archivelog all) 21. How to backup and clean the space for archivelog? 22. Cloning steps using RMAN? 23. Sunday u made full db backup, Monday morning u add 1 datafiles evening it generates 5 archived log, and u dont have bkp of new datafiles, u lost 2 archived log from destination location before to take, now ur new datafile is crashed!! Then how could u perform incomplete recovery? 24. What you see in crosscheck backup command? 25. What is the difference between level 0 and level 1 backup? 26. Any views are available to check the database block corruption? 27. What is database incarnation? 28. Your controlfile is corrupted how will u recover? 29. How to make automate backup of spfile in rman? What parameter you configure? 30. How to create recovery catalog and how to backup recovery catalog? 31. Why more redo generates in hot backup? 32. RMAN backup is scheduled at 8pm and it is still running upto 10pm, what might be the problem and how to resolve it? 33. Use of catalog db? 34. Which is best catalog db or nocatalog db? 35. How to change your DB from noarchivelog to archivelog?

Data Guard
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Dataguard Configuration? How to monitor archivelog in standby What type of protection mode youre using in DG? Explain type of protection modes in DG? DG configuration steps? Explain in detail? Is db_file_name_convert parameter is needed, when your standby in same or different file directory structure? 7. Use of Archive_lag_target parameter?

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8. DG Scenario, When a archivelog is deleted in your primary db what happen to your standby db? How to resolve it? What action you will take? 9. What are the types of STANDBY DB? (Phy & logical) 10. standby_file_management=auto, but file is not creating on standby location what u do? 11. How will you ensure that recovery processes is happening in standby? (V$managed_standby, v$archive_gap) 12. Standby archive, behind the 50 log, you get on call alert, How will u resolve it? Manually copy and paste it on standby 13. How to find and resolve archive gaps? Is there any parameter to resolve this automatically? 14. Diff between 9i and 10g dataguard? 15. 100 archivelog gap in standby, but all archivelogs in primary in backed up to tape and deleted from disk, how you restore the archivelog to standby? Give solution.. 16. Which is the default mode in standby? And explain all other mode? 17. What is the use of FAL_SERVER, FAL_CLIENT parameter? Explain how will you solve the gaps manually? 18. How physical files are created automatically in standby? 19. If standby_file_management=manual, datafile created in primary is not found in standby? At this time what you do? 20. Explain Dataguard Architecture 21. What are the dataguard modes available, explain 22. Diff between 9i and 10g dataguard, explain, and tell the difference in redo apply method in both the versions. 23. What parameter you configure in 10g Dataguard? 24. What is the use of VALID_FOR and explain its types 25. How to send redo data from standby A to standby B, for that which parameter we have to configure 26. Difference between switchover and failover? Tell the steps 27. After failover standby will be changed to primary, but the problem occurred in former primary is resolved, now how will you switchover the roles? 28. Dataguard configuration steps? 29. You add one datafile in primary db, but this file is not found in standby, what will u do?

Tuning
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Explain Top 5 Wait events in statspack? Solution? What are the advisories there in oracle? Explain any four? Use of CURSOR_SHARING and OPEN_CURSOR parameters? How to collect statistics of a table using DBMS pkgs? How many DBMS pkgs are available? How to check invalid index and how to change its status to valid? What and why we use VALIDATE STRUCTURE cmd? What is row chaining and row migration? What you will see in statspack report?

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10. What is buffer busy wait event? 11. How to find and resolve chained roes? 12. Have u applied CPU patches? 13. Have you analyzed statspack? What you see in that? 14. What is db file scattered read and sequential read? 15. What type of tuning activities you involved? 16. Yesterday evening DB is good, but morning user complain our database in very
slow? Without using statspack tool how to resolve is issue? What action your take to rectify the problem?

17. Have you done database REFRESH? [ Re-organizing DB] 18. How you will check alert log errors? Using tool or scripts
19. User complaining query getting slow? What action u will take?

20. How will you rebuild the indexes? Explain the steps? What are the internal processes happen during index rebuilding? 21. What is the default level for statspack? What you will see in statspack? Tell abt level 6? 22. What is cursor_sharing parameter? Explain its types 23. what you will see in statspack 24. How to find blockers and waiters? Solution 25. What is HWM? If some deleted rows are there, what oracle will do, whether it will scan the table upto before deleted rows or to HWM? How to resolve it? 26. How to re-organize the table? 27. How to find the totalsize of database using dynamic views? 28. What is explain plan, tkprof, and sqltrace? When they are used? How to analyze from output? 29. Diff b/w RBO & CBO? Which is the default in 9i and 10g? what you are using? 30. How to gather statistics and what happens after gathering the statistics, and tell how to gather the statistics without using analyze cmd? 31. What is the data dictionary view used to see explain plan output if we are having the sql_id of the statement? 32. What you will see in explain plan? 33. Have you applied any CPU patches?

DB Upgrade
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Have u worked in DB upgrade? Upgrade steps Migratation steps Have you done any upgrade? Tell me steps to upgrade from 9i to 10g? How to apply patch sets like 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4 and explain the steps? Types of method to upgrade? Upgrade steps?

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ASM
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Create db in ASM How to convert Non-ASM to ASM? How to create diskgroup in ASM? Migrating Non-ASM to ASM Explain ASM features? ASM background process

Linux
1. In a directory I want to find the text file with out showing file permission and timing details? 2. Explain all kernel parameters in linux kernel 3. How to find diskusage space in mount point in linux?

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