Illustrate how to determine the amount of physical CPUs a Unix Box possesses (LINUX and/or Solaris).
How do you increase the OS limitation for open files (LINUX and/or Solaris)?
Provide an example of a shell script which logs into SQLPLUS as SYS, determines the current date, changes the date format to include minutes & seconds, issues a drop table command, displays the date again, and finally exits.
Explain how you would restore a database using RMAN to Point in Time?
How does Oracle guarantee data integrity of data changes?
Which environment variables are absolutely critical in order to run the OUI?
Why does Oracle not permit the use of PCTUSED with indexes?
What would you do with an in-doubt distributed transaction?
In what script is snap$ created? In what script is the scott/tiger schema created?
If youre unsure in which script a sys or system-owned object is created, but you know its in a script from a specific directory, what UNIX command from that directory structure can you run to find your answer?
How would you configure your networking files to connect to a database by the name of DSS which resides in domain icallinc.com?
What are the ways tablespaces can be managed and how do they differ?
Whats the benefit of dbms_stats over analyze?
Typically, where is the conventional directory structure chosen for Oracle binaries to reside?
You have found corruption in a tablespace that contains static tables that are part of a database that is in NOARCHIVE log mode. How would you restore the tablespace without losing new data in the other tablespaces?
