1. Exploring Oracle Database Architecture

• Introducing Oracle Database
• Relation Database Models
• Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
• Oracle Database Server Architecture
• Connecting to Oracle Databases
• Oracle Database Tools
• Oracle-Supplied User Accounts
• Querying the Oracle Data Dictionary

2. Managing Database Instances

• Initialization Parameter Files
• Starting Up Oracle Databases
• Shutting Down Oracle Databases
• Opening and Closing PDBs
• Working with the Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR)
• Querying Dynamic Performance Views

3. Creating PDBs

• Methods and Tools to Create PDBs
• Creating PDBs from Seed with SQL*Plus
• Cloning PDBs with SQL*Plus
• Unplugging and Pluggin In PDBs with SQL*Plus
• Dropping PDBs with SQL*Plus

4. Configuring the Oracle Network Environment

• Oracle Net Services
• How Listeners Work
• Configuring Listeners for Dynamic Service Registration
• Configuring Listeners for Static Service Registration
• Configuring Local Naming for Connections
• Testing Oracle Net Connectivity with tnsping
• Configuring Communidation Between Databases
• Dedicated Versus Shared Server Configurations

5. Administering User Security

• Creating Users
• Granting Privileges
• Creating and Granting Roles
• Revoking Privileges and Roles
• Creating and Assigning Profiles
• Authenticating Users
• Assigning Quotas to Users
• Applying the Principal of Least Privilege

6. Creating and Managing Tablespaces

• How Table Data is Stored
• Creating Tablespaces in SQL*Plus
• Altering and Dropping Tablespaces in SQL*Plus
• Viewing Tablespace Information in SQL*Plus
• Implementing Oracle Managed Files
• Moving and Renaming Online Data Files in SQL*Plus

7. Managing Storage Space

• Oracle Database Space Management Features
• Block Space Management
• Row Chaining and Migration
• Free Space Management Within Segments
• Types of Segments
• Allocating Extents
• Understanding Deferred Segment Creation
• Space-Saving Features

8. Managing UNDO Data

• Undo Data: Overview
• Transactions and Undo Data
• Storing Undo Information
• Comparing Undo Data and Redo Data
• Managing Undo
• Local Undo Mode Versus Shared Undo Mode
• Configuring Undo Retension
• Categories of Undo

9. Moving Data

• Moving Data: General Architecture
• Oracle Data Pump: Overview
• Oracle Data Pump: Benefits
• Data Pump Export and Import Clients
• Data Pump Utility: Interfaces and Modes
• Data Pump Import: Transformations
• SQL*Loader Overview
• Loading Methods

10. Backup and Recovery Concepts

• DBA Responsibilities
• Categories of Failure
• Understanding Instance Recovery
• Understanding Types of Backups
• Comparing Complete and Incomplete Recovery
• Oracle Data Protection Solutions
• Flashback Technology

11. Monitoring and Tuning Database Performance

• Managing Performance Activities
• Performance Planning Considerations
• Database Maintenance
• Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)
• Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
• Performance Monitoring
• Performance Tuning Methodology
• Database Server Statistics and Metrics

12. SQL Tuning

• SQL Tuning Process
• Oracle Optimizer
• Optimizer Statistics
• SQL Plan Directives
• Adaptive Execution Plans
• SQL Tuning Advisor
• SQL Access Advisor
• SQL Performance Analyzer

13. Oracle Database Resource Manager

• Oracle Database Resource Manager: Overview
• Resource Manager Elements
• Using Resource Manager to Allocate Resources
• Creating a Simple Resource Plan
• Creating a Complex Resource Plan
• Using the Active Session Pool Feature
• Limiting CPU Utilization at the Database Level
• Limiting CPU Utilization at the Server Level

14. Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

• Controlling the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Framework
• Starting the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Framework
• Stopping the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Framework

​15. Introduction to Oracle Database Cloud Service

• Oracle Cloud: Overview
• Database Cloud Service Offerings
• DBCS Architecture
• Features and Tooling
• Additional Database Configuration Options

16. Creating DBCS Database Deployments

• Automated Database Provisioning
• Creating a Database Deployment
• How SSH Key Pairs are Used
• Creating an SSH Key Pair
• Storage Used for Database Files

17. Managing DBCS Database Deployments

• Cloud Tooling
• Accessing Tools and Features from the DBCS Console
• Managing the Compute Node Associated With a Database Deployment
• Managing Network Access to DBCS
• Enabling Access to a Compute Node Port
• Scaling a Database Deployment

18. Backing Up and Restoring DBCS Database Deployments

• Backing Up and Recovering Databases on DBCS
• Backup Destination Choices
• Backup Configuration
• Creating an On-Demand Backup
• Customizing the Backup Configuration
• Performing Recovery by Using the Console
• Performing Recovery by Using the dbaascli Utility

19. Patching DBCS Database Deployments

• Patching DBCS
• Using the DBCS Console to Manage Patches
• Using the dbaascli Utility to Manage Patches

20. Creating Master Encryption Keys for PDBs

• CDB and PDB Master Encryption Keys
• Determining Whether You Need to Create and Activate and Encryption Key for a PDB
• Creating and Activating an Encryption Key

21. Tablespace Encryption by Default

• Tablespace Encryption by Default in DBCS
• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Overview
• Components of TDE
• Using TDE
• Defining the Keystore Location
• Controlling Tablespace Encryption by Default
• Managing the Software Keystore and Master Encryption Key
• Managing the Keystore in CDBs and PDBs