Benefits in Obtaining Oracle 1Z0-068: Oracle Database 12c: RAC and Grid Infrastructure Administrator Exam Certification

Oracle 1Z0-068 Certification will strengthen your knowledge and skills by introducing you to a wide variety of important database features, functionsm and tasks. Oracle Database certification trains you how to perform complex, hands-on activities through study, labs and practice. This certification will help you gain better understanding and experience with Oracle RAC and Grid Infrastructure. After gaining this certification you will be able to install, maintain, tune and recover RAC databases, Clusterware and ASM environments.

Earning this certification gives you a competitive advantage by devloping a skill set that's in demand in the world. 80% of Oracle's certified people reported that certification helped them in promotion, increase in wages, or other career improvements. You will also get a digital badge that you can display on your LinkedIn profiles.

How to book the Oracle 1Z0-068: Oracle Database 12c: RAC and Grid Infrastructure Administrator Exam

If you are looking to appear in the Oracle 1Z0-068: Oracle Database 12c: RAC and Grid Infrastructure Administrator Exam, you can do so by either redeeming a voucher that you have to but from Oracle or paying directly with a credit card. After payment you can schedule the test via Oracle's external testing provider, PearsonVue.

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Topics of Oracle 1Z0-068: Oracle Database 12c: RAC and Grid Infrastructure Administrator Exam

The Oracle 1Z0-068 Exam tests the abilities and knowledge of the candidates by checking the following objectives:

• Oracle Database 12c: RAC Administration Grid Infrastructure: The candidates should have the understanding of the Oracle Clusterware architecture, principles and purpose of clustering, and how Grid Plug and Play affects Clusterware.

• Managing High Availability for Connections and Applications: The candidates should know the configuration of client side connect time load balancing failover, server side callouts, server side connect time load balancing, server and client side ONS, Transparent Application Failover, usage of Load Balancing Advisory and should be able to explain the benifits of Fast Application Notification.

• Managing Oracle RAC One Node: The candidates should know how to perform an online migration of database, RAC one Node to a RAC database, add an RAC One Node database to an existing cluster and how to use DBCA to convert a single instance database to a RAC One Node database.

• RAC Database Monitoring and Tuning: The cadndidates should be able to identify RAC-specific tuning components, use the Cluster Database Performance pages, how to determing RAC specific wait events, global enqueues and system staistics, how to use the Automatic Workload Repository in RAC, implementation of the RAC tuning practices and usage of the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor in RAC.

• Oracle Clusterware Architecture: The candidates should have a good understanding of Oracle's Clusterware architectuer and its startup details.

• Managing Backup and Recovery for RAC: The candidates should be able to configure the RMAN for the RAC environment and RAC database to use ARCHIVELOG mode and the fast recovery area.

• Installing and Configuring Oracle RAC: Candidates should be able to install Oracle database software, create a cluster database, perform post database creation tasks, conversion of single instance Oracle database to Real Application Clusters (RAC).

• Using Multitenant Architecture in a RAC Environment: The candidates should have a good understanding of the multitenant architecture in RAC and non RAC environments. They should know how to create a RAC multitenant container database (CDB), create a pluggable database in RAC CDB, use the default CDB and PDB services, create PDB services to associate PDB services with server pools and drop a PDB from CDB.

Following are some more topics included in the exam:

• Grid Infrastructure Installation Planning and Pre-Tasks
• Managing High Availability of Services
• Administering Oracle CloudFS
• Making Applications Highly Available with Oracle Clusterware
• Oracle CloudFS Advance Topics
• Policy-Based Cluster Management
• Using Oracle Database Quality of Service Management (QoS)
• Administering ASM Instances
• Administering ASM Disk Groups
• Upgrading and Patching Oracle RAC
• Managing Cluster Nodes
• Administering ASM Files, Directories and Templates
• Traditional Clusterware Management
• Grid Infrastructure Installation
• RAC Databases and Architecture
• Flex Clusters
• FLEX ASM
• Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Administration Overview of ASM
• Upgrading and Patching Grid Infrastructure
• Administering Oracle RAC
• Managing Global Resources
• Oracle Database 12c: Grid Infrastructure Administration Introduction to Clusterware
• Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware

More details about the Topics of Oracle 1Z0-068 Exam can be found in the Oracle website.