Oracle Real Application Clusters 12c Essentials 

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Exam Topics:

Overview of Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Real Application Clusters (RAC)

• Describe the Oracle Clusterware architecture for Oracle RAC
• Describe the Automatic Storage Management (ASM) architecture
• Describe RAC Architecture and Processing
• Describe Server Pools and Policy Managed Databases
• Describe an Oracle RAC environment and the components
• Explain considerations for deploying Oracle RAC databases

Installing a RAC Environment

• Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure
• Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure
• Configure Storage for Grid Infrastructure and RAC
• Configure the Operating System for Grid Infrastructure and RAC
• Configure Networks for Grid Infrastructure and RAC
• Install Grid Infrastructure for a cluster
• Complete the Grid Infrastructure post-installation procedures
• Upgrade to Grid Infrastructure 12cR1
• Clone Oracle RAC

Automatic Storage Management

• Explain the Oracle ASM Cluster Configuration with Oracle RAC
• Describe Oracle ASM Disk groups and components
• Explain how ASM protects data integrity using mirroring and failure groups
• Explain file storage in Oracle ASM and the types of files that are supported
• Describe online storage reconfigurations and dynamic rebalancing in ASM
• Perform disk maintenance on disk groups
• Perform mount and dismount operations 
• Explain allocation units and their importance in ASM
• Define best practices and prepare storage resources for Oracle ASM
• Configure Multipathing
• Use ASMLIB to configure storage
• Use ASMCA, ASMCMD, SRVCTL to manage Oracle ASM

Cloud FS

• Define the Oracle ASM Storage Layers
• Define ACFS Best Practices
• Manage Oracle ACFS with Command-Line Tools
• Create an Oracle ACFS File System 
• Manage Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM with ASMCA
• Use the Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
• Manage Oracle ACFS Snapshots
• Define how Oracle ACFS integrates with Oracle ASM

Managing and Monitoring Oracle RAC Environments

• Use SRVCTL or SQL*Plus to manage an Oracle RAC environment
• Monitor and perform administration tasks on an Oracle RAC using Enterprise Manager
• Stop and start Instances using SRVCTL, CRSCTL or SQL*Plus
• Perform instance recovery in Oracle RAC
• Manage the Oracle Local Registry (OLR)
• Explain RMAN Restore Scenarios for Oracle RAC
• Handle failures in Oracle RAC
• Add and delete nodes in an Oracle RAC
• Manage an Oracle Clusterware environment with available tools and utilities 
• Add, move, or delete instances and services
• Check Oracle Clusterware and RAC clusters for problems

Oracle Clusterware Overview

• Describe Oracle Cluster Configuration
• Use the Oracle Cluster Registry to store and manage information in Oracle Clusterware
• Describe the Cluster Ready Services Technology Stack
• Describe the High Availability Services Technology Stack
• Explain Oracle Clusterware version compatibility
• Explain how Server Pools work
• Use Server Pool Attributes to create a server pool
• Describe the difference between a standard cluster and an Oracle Flex Cluster
• Change a standard Cluster to an Oracle Flex Cluster
• Add nodes to a cluster
• Implement best practices around OCR location configuration

RAC Networking

• Identify network requirements for Oracle RAC
• Describe IP address types
• Explain the Single Client Access Name feature (SCAN)
• Implement cluster interconnect best practices
• Describe services using server pools
• Describe the Grid Naming Service (GNS)
• Convert cluster networks using DNS to GNS
• Perform workload management with Dynamic Database Services

RAC 12c New Features

• Implement the available Oracle Flex ASM Configurations
• Migrate OCR and voting files from raw to Oracle ASM
• Configure Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM in Oracle Flex ASM
• Use the What If Command Evaluation
• Set up Oracle Flex ASM
• Perform administrative tasks on Oracle Flex ASM
• Change the mode of a standard Oracle Clusterware to an Oracle Flex Cluster
• Describe Flex ASM architecture
• Use SRVCTL to manage Flex ASM
• Describe the effects of failure in Flex Clusters