Oracle Database
What do you call a database that has the ability to handle any type of data and reduce the cost and complexity of multiple single purpose databases?
A converged database
What is the percentage of data breaches caused by compromised credentials: 35%; 52%; 71%; 85%
71%
Which Oracle database option protects against server failure and supports maintenance of systems without taking a database down?
Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Which two enterprise manager packs are the most used by DBAs to reduce their workload?
Diagnostics and Tuning
What are 2 top issues raised by DBAs about their jobs?
Overwork; Budget; Too many manual processes;
How many code bases does Oracle use to deliver the three Oracle database services (EE, SE and Autonomous)?
One
What is the #1 fear of DBAs when they hear about automation?
Losing their job
What are 2 types of support releases that Oracle puts out for the database?
Innovation Release
Long-Term Support Release
What enterprise edition option helps protect against privileged user accounts getting access to sensitive data
Database Vault
What solution provides disaster recovery protection by replicating the entire database to 1 or more locations and is included with Database Enterprise Edition?
Data Guard
Which enterprise manager pack provides comprehensive set of real time & automatic performance diagnostics & monitoring functionality?
Diagnostics
What is the latest long-term support release of the Oracle database
19c
What are two examples of data that doesn't fit into traditional database rows and columns?
Unstructured, images, video, audio, streamed, spatial and graph
What is a common Customer fear/animosity based on experiences or stories about past actions taken by Oracle that creates a hurdle to new sales?
License audits
What application changes does a customer have to make if they move their Oracle database from on-prem to OCI?
None
What are 2 types of protection provided by the Advanced Security Option (ASO)?
Transparent Data Encryption, Encrypt Export, Encrypted Backups and Data Redaction
What are two of the three uses of Active Data Guard or GoldenGate that provide potentially greater business value than Data Guard?
Minimal/Zero downtime maintenance and migrations, Active/Active workloads, automatic data corruption repair
Which enterprise manager pack enables you to capture and replay real production workloads to assess effects of system changes in test environments before deploying in production.
Real Application Testing (RAT)
Why does Oracle offer Database Standard Edition database?
To provide the same database technology at a lower, more competitive cost for non-mission critical workloads or for smaller, growing workloads
Name two cities where John and Bob live
Sarasota, Toronto, Pittsburgh
Besides the DBA, name two other areas or titles that you can speak to about improving the protection of the data in the database?
Application owners (LOB), Security, Risk and Compliance
What is a significant reason to upgrade from earlier editions of the Oracle DB to 19c?
Greater risk to your business applications because only Sustaining Support is available.
True or false, Data Masking of data in development databases to prevent developers or hackers from seeing live data can be reversed to ensure an application works.
False
What are the two key performance indicators (KPIs) or service level agreements (SLAs) that define the level of solution needed for disaster recovery?
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
What are three purposes/benefits of the Database Lifecycle Management Pack?
Asset discovery and inventory; Provisioning; Patching; Configuration Management; Change Management; Compliance Management
What database option helps customers reduce capital expenses, operational expenses, provide greater scalability and resource utilization by allowing them to manage many databases as one?
Multitenant
What is the cloud service that can help customers provide better on-premise database security?
Data Safe
What conversation can you have with someone in the line of business (LOB) about moving reporting from their transaction processing environment?
Faster, more complete reporting without risking performance impacts to their transaction processing
What are two of the four pieces of information you need to have to understand how you can help improve their database management?
The applications they run
The mission criticality of the application
The type of data in them
The sensitivity of that data
What are four primary database options to protect your data?
Advanced Security Option, Key Vault, Database Vault and Data Masking
What Oracle deployment best practices provides customers with local availability and disaster recovery to handle multiple types of downtime according to the need of each application?
Maximum availability architecture (MAA)
What are the 3 most time consuming tasks for a DBA?
Diagnose Performance Issues, Tune Databases and Patch/Upgrade Databases
Name 3 different types of workloads the Oracle database supports?
On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP), On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), Machine Learning, Streaming, etc.
Name three Oracle database capabilities that enable a hybrid cloud deployment
Move without application changes; Monitor and manage across environments; Assess effect of moving between environments; Easily move data between environments without downtime; Enable back-up and DR across environments;
What is Gartner’s reported % of time and cost of the extra integration work required as a result of using many single purpose databases:35%, 45%, 50%, 55%, 60%?
50%