Faster Queries with Bitmap Join IndexesTITLE

QUESTION 1
Identify the benefit of using bitmap join indexes.

A. Faster query performance for all queries.
B. Reduced space for indexes.
C. Faster query performance for some queries.
D. Lower memory usage.
Correct Answer: B
Candidate Response: [None] (Incorrect)
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Explanation Oracle benchmarks claim that bitmap join indexes can run a query more than eight times faster
than traditional indexing methods.
However, this speed improvement is dependent upon many factors, and the bitmap join is not a
panacea. Some restrictions on using the bitmap join index include:
The indexed columns must be of low cardinalityusually with less than 300 distinct values.
The query must not have any references in the WHERE clause to data columns that are not
contained in the index.
The overhead when updating bitmap join indexes is substantial. For practical use, bitmap join
indexes are dropped and rebuilt each evening about the daily batch load jobs. This means that
bitmap join indexes are useful only for Oracle data warehouses that remain read-only during the
processing day.
Reference:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_builder_bitmap_join_idx.htm
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/server.101/b10736/indexes.htm#CIHGAFFF
QUESTION 2
You think that result set caching might provide some benefits for your current data warehouse scenario. You
perform some analysis on the composition of the queries used in the scenario. Identify the result of the analysis
that would indicate the most potential for improvement with result set caching.
A. The scenario consists mainly of queries that are used infrequently.
B. The scenario consists mainly of queries that work on data which changes frequently.
C. The scenario consists mainly of queries with long run times and small result sets.
D. All data warehouse scenarios will benefit from result set caching.
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
As its name suggests, the query result cache is used to store the results of SQL
queries for re-use in subsequent executions. By caching the results of queries, Oracle can avoid
having to repeat the potentially time-consuming and intensive operations that generated the
resultset in the first place (for example, sorting/aggregation, physical I/O, joins etc). The cache
results themselves are available across the instance (i.e. for use by sessions other than the one
that first executed the query) and are maintained by Oracle in a dedicated area of memory. Unlike
our homegrown solutions using associative arrays or global temporary tables, the query result
cache is completely transparent to our applications. It is also maintained for consistency
automatically, unlike our own caching programs.
Reference: query result cache in oracle 11g, http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=503
QUESTION 3
How many Exadata Storage Server cells are there in a Full Rack Exadata database machine configuration that
has 8 Database Server nodes?
A. 2
B. 14
C. 16
D. 24
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 4
Identify the indexing technique you would use to minimize partition maintenance.
A. Local indexes
B. Global partitioned indexes
C. Global nonpartitioned indexes
D. Both global partitioned and global nonpartitioned indexes
Correct Answer: A
Explanation If your priority is manageability, use a local index.
Local partitioned indexes are easier to manage than other types of partitioned indexes. They also
offer greater availability and are common in DSS environments. The reason for this is
equipartitioning: each partition of a local index is associated with exactly one partition of the table.
This enables Oracle to automatically keep the index partitions in sync with the table partitions, and
makes each table-index pair independent. Any actions that make one partitions data invalid or
unavailable only affect a single partition.
Local partitioned indexes support more availability when there are partition or subpartition
maintenance operations on the table. A type of index called a local nonprefixed index is very
useful for historical databases. In this type of index, the partitioning is not on the left prefix of the
index columns.
Reference: Oracle Database VLDB and Partitioning Guide, 11g Release 1 (11.1), 2 Partitioning
Concepts
Note:
Local indexes are indexes create on each partition in a table. A local index automatically creates
an index partition for each partition in the table. The index is partitioned by the same key as the
partition key of the table.
A local index is always partitioned by the same partition key as the parent table. You cannot add
or remove partitions in a local index, or in a global index for that matter. You must add and remove
partitions from the parent table. A local index does not need to include the partition key in the list
of indexed columns.
Local indexes provide the best throughput of a query and are used primarily in OLAP and DSS
type environments.
Explanation: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/server.101/b10743/partconc.htm
QUESTION 5
For which type of query is the SQL result cache automatically disabled?
A. Queries that access data which changes frequently
B. Queries that return large amounts of data
C. Queries that use SQL functions such as SYSDATE
D. Queries that are used infrequently
Correct Answer: C
Explanation SYSDATE produces a new value every time it is used. Caching such a value would make no
sense.
Explanation: http://books.google.com/books?id=-4S6xQu- rmYC&pg=PA821&lpg=PA821&dq=SQL+result
+cache+automatically+disabled&source=bl&ots=c mCLbFNfO-&sig=0EPaIT1ws3PkpqVhsDSfalAnrQ&hl=en&ei=o8YTZtD0_
fiBs6GzKUK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepa ge&q=SQL
%20result%20cache%20automatically%20disabled&f=false
QUESTION 6
Knowledge Modules are:
A. Reusable code templates for Oracle Data Integrator
B. Prebuilt applications for Oracle Business Intelligence
C. Options for Oracle Enterprise Manager
D. Algorithms for data mining
Correct Answer: A
Explanation Knowledge modules (KMs) in Oracle Data Integrator are components that
implement reusable transformation and ELT (extract, load, and transform) strategies across
different technologies.
Reference: Developing a Knowledge Module in Oracle Data Integrator
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/bethke-odi-090881.html
Explanation: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/bethke-odi-090881.html
QUESTION 7
You will be implementing a data warehouse for one of your customers. In your design process, which index
type is most likely to be used to improve the performance of some queries where the data is of low cardinality?
A. Bitmap indexes
B. B*-tree indexes
C. Reverse indexes
D. Invisible indexes
Correct Answer: A
Explanation Bitmap indexes are a highly compressed index type that tends to be used primarily
for data warehouses.
Characteristic of Bitmap Indexes
* For columns with very few unique values (low cardinality)
* Columns that have low cardinality are good candidates (if the cardinality of a column is <= 0.1 %
that the column is ideal candidate, consider also 0.2% 1%)
* Tables that have no or little insert/update are good candidates (static data in warehouse)
* Stream of bits: each bit relates to a column value in a single row of table
Reference: The Secrets of Oracle Bitmap Indexes,
http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_bitmapped_index.html
Explanation:
http://www.toadworld.com/Newsletter/TWPIPELINEJanFeb2010/PIPEJanFeb10Oracle/tabid/672/ Default.aspx
QUESTION 8
Your customer wants to determine "market baskets." What do you recommend?
A. Use Oracle OLAP Option.
B. Use Oracle SQL Analytic Functions.
C. Use associations algorithm in Oracle Data Mining.
D. Use regression analysis in Oracle Data Mining
Correct Answer: C
Explanation Association is a data mining function that discovers the probability of the cooccurrence of items in a
collection. The relationships between co-occurring items are expressed
as association rules.
Market-Basket Analysis
Association rules are often used to analyze sales transactions. For example, it might be noted that
customers who buy cereal at the grocery store often buy milk at the same time. In fact, association
analysis might find that 85% of the checkout sessions that include cereal also include milk. This
relationship could be formulated as the following rule.
Cereal implies milk with 85% confidence
This application of association modeling is called market-basket analysis. It is valuable for direct
marketing, sales promotions, and for discovering business trends. Market-basket analysis can also
be used effectively for store layout, catalog design, and cross-sell.
Association Algorithm
Oracle Data Mining uses the Apriori algorithm to calculate association rules for items in frequent
itemsets.
Reference: Oracle Data Mining Concepts 11g Release 2
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/datamine.112/e16808/market_basket.htm
Explanation: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/datamine.111/b28129/regress.htm
QUESTION 9
You are looking for some general design principles that could be used in designing every large scale data
warehouse you create. Identify the principle that would have the widest applicability.
A. Partition your tables appropriately to produce partition-wise joins.
B. Always use a star schema or snowflake schema design.
C. Do as much analytics as possible in your BI tools.
D. Always use Oracle OLAP.
Correct Answer: A
Explanation Partition-wise joins can be full or partial. Oracle decides which type of join to use.
A full partition-wise join divides a large join into smaller joins between a pair of partitions from the
two joined tables. To use this feature, you must equipartition both tables on their join keys, or use
reference partitioning.
Oracle Database can perform partial partition-wise joins only in parallel. Unlike full partition-wise
joins, partial partition-wise joins require you to partition only one table on the join key, not both
tables.
Note: Partition-wise joins reduce query response time by minimizing the amount of data
exchanged among parallel execution servers when joins execute in parallel. This significantly
reduces response time and improves the use of both CPU and memory resources. In Oracle Real
Application Clusters (RAC) environments, partition-wise joins also avoid or at least limit the data
traffic over the interconnect, which is the key to achieving good scalability for massive join
operations.
for Availability, Manageability, and Performance
Explanation: http://www.oracleracsig.org/pls/apex/RAC_SIG.download_my_file?p_file=1002364
QUESTION 10
Indentify the dimension that appears most often in queries in a data warehouse.
A. Product dimension
B. Time dimension
C. Cost dimension
D. Location dimension
Correct Answer: B
Explanation In a data warehouse, a dimension is a data element that categorizes each item in a
data set into non-overlapping regions. A data warehouse dimension provides the means to slice
and dice data in a data warehouse. Dimensions provide structured labeling information to
otherwise unordered numeric measures. For example, Customer, Date, and Product are all
dimensions that could be applied meaningfully to a sales receipt. A dimensional data element is
similar to a categorical variable in statistics.
The primary function of dimensions is threefold: to provide filtering, grouping and labeling. For
example, in a data warehouse where each person is categorized as having a gender of male,
female or unknown, a user of the data warehouse would then be able to filter or categorize each
presentation or report by either filtering based on the gender dimension or displaying results
broken out by the gender
Explanation: http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/data-warehousing.html
QUESTION 11
Flash in the Oracle Exadata Database Machine is of lower latency (and enables faster access to data) than:
A. Memory
B. Memory and locally attached disk
C. Memory and network-attached disk
D. Locally attached and network-attached disk
Correct Answer: D
Explanation:
The Exadata Smart Flash Cache is also used to reduce the latency of log write I/O eliminating performance
bottlenecks that might occur due to database logging.
Flash memory has very good average write latency. It is faster than locally attached and network attached disks.
However, it is not faster than Memory (RAM).
Reference: Exadata Smart Flash Cache Features and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine,
Oracle White Paper
QUESTION 12
You have analyzed your client's workload and the Materialized Views Advisor in Enterprise Manager
recommends that you create some materialized views to improve performance. What should you do in order to
most simply implement this change?
A. Rewrite all the queries in the application to identify materialized view
B. Rewrite existing queries. New queries will automatically use the views.
C. Respond positively to the Advisor to create the materialized views.
D. Build virtual views on a third normal form schema.
Correct Answer: C
Explanation: Enterprise Manager provides a very simple interface for the SQL Access Advisor(Advisor Central >
SQL Advisor >SQL Access Advisor). The first page allows you to create tasks to test existing indexes,
materialized view and partitions, or create tasks to suggest new structures. The Workload Source page allows
you to define the workload to associate with the task. The basic options allow the workload to be gathered from
the cursor cache, an existing SQL tuning set,or a hypothetical workload based on specific schema objects. The
Recommendation Options page allows you to define which type of recommendations you are interested in
(Indexes, Materialized Views and Partitioning).After reviewing the result of the analysis you can decide if you
should accept or ignore the suggested recommendations. Note: The SQL Access Advisor was introduced in
Oracle 10g to make suggestions about additional indexes and materialized views which might improve system
performance.
Reference: QL Access Advisor in Oracle Database 11g Release 1
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/SQLAccessAdvisor_11gR1.php
QUESTION 13
What areas can SQL Access Advisor give advice on?
A. Partitioning advice, index advice, and materialized views advice
B. Index advice and compression advice
C. Index advice and data masking advice
D. Partitioning advice and compression advice
Correct Answer: A
Explanation The SQL Access Advisor was introduced in Oracle 10g to make suggestions about
additional indexes and materialized views which might improve system performance. Oracle 11g
has made two significant changes to the SQL Access Advisor:
The advisor now includes advice on partitioning schemes that may improve performance.
The original workload manipulation has been deprecated and replaced by SQL tuning sets.
Reference:
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/SQLAccessAdvisor_11gR1.php
QUESTION 14
What is the estimated maximum speed of data loads for a Quarter Rack with the Exadata Storage Server?
A. 1 TB/hr
B. 2 TB/hr
C. 4 TB/hr
D. 5 TB/hr
E. It depends on the number of CPUs in the server.
Correct Answer: A
Explanation
Reference: http://techsatwork.com/blog/?p=743
Now is 3Tb/h
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/dbmachine-x2-2-datasheet-175280.pdf
ORACLE EXADATA DATABASE MACHINE X4-2 has 5 TB/hour
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/exadata-dbmachine-x4-2-ds-2076448.pdf
Explanation: http://techsatwork.com/blog/?p=743
QUESTION 15
What is the difference between an ETL (Extraction Transformation LoaD. approach and an ELT (Extraction
Load Transformation) approach to data integration?
A. ETL can operate between heterogeneous data sources.
B. ELT requires a separate transformation server.
C. ELT transforms data on the target server.
D. ELT cannot be used for incremental data loading.
Correct Answer: AC
Explanation:
There are two approaches to consider for data integration: ELT and ETL.
The difference between ETL and ELT lies in the environment in which the data transformations are
applied. In traditional ETL, the transformation takes place when the data is en route from the
source to the target system. In ELT, the data is loaded into the target system, and then
transformed within the target system environment.
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480064.aspx
QUESTION 16
For data warehousing, identify the benefits that would NOT be provided by the use of RAC.
A. Distribute workload across all the nodes.
B. Distribute workload to some of the nodes.
C. Provide parallel query servers.
D. Provide high availability for all the operations.
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
With Oracle RAC the workload can be distributed access all cluster nodes, parallel query servers
can be provided through the Parallel Query tool, and high availability can be obtained through, for
example, Oracle Clusterware.
Note: Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) is a cluster database with a shared cache
architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk
approaches to provide highly scalable and available database solutions for all your business
applications. Oracle RAC is a key component of Oracles private cloud architecture. Oracle RAC
support is included in the Oracle Database Standard Edition for higher levels of system uptime.
Reference: Data Warehousing on Oracle RAC Best Practices
QUESTION 17
How can you implement near real time data integration with Oracle Data Integrator?
A. By accessing Change Data Capture records from logs
B. By using Exchange Partition
C. By mining Oracle UNDO segments
D. By reading operating system logs
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: Conventional Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tools closely intermix data transformation rules with
integration process procedures, requiring the development of both data transformations and data flow. Oracle
Data Integrator (ODI) takes a different approach to integration by clearly separating the declarative rules (the
what) from the actual implementation (the how). With ODI, declarative rules describing mappings and
transformations are defined graphically, through a drag-and-drop interface, and stored independently from the
implementation. ODI automatically generates the data flow, which can be fine-tuned if required. This innovative
approach for declarative design has also been applied to ODIs framework for Changed Data Capture. ODIs
CDC moves only changed
data to the target systems and can be integrated with Oracle Golden Gate, thereby enabling the kind of real time
integration that businesses require. Reference: Best Practices for Real-time Data Warehousing, Oracle White
Paper
QUESTION 18
Your customer wants to use Database Resource Manager to help ensure consistent performance based on
users and operations. In designing this implementation, which limitation CANNOT be imposed through
Database Resource Manager?
A. Specifying the maximum number of concurrent operations for a resource group
B. Limiting resource consumption for a resource group
C. Specifying the amount of parallelism for a resource group
D. Limiting access to particular data for a resource group
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 19
You are looking to size a data warehouse configuration. If the I/O throughput for the CPUs is 25 GB/s, the I/O
throughput for the HBA is 18 GB/s, and the I/O throughput for the disk subsystem is 6 GB/s, what is the overall
throughput of the data warehouse?
A. 25 GB/s
B. 18 GB/s
C. 6 GB/s
D. It depends on how many processors are in the servers.

Correct Answer: C
Explanation In this scenario the disk subsystem is the bottleneck. It determines the throughput.
Note: Each of the components must provide sufficient I/O bandwidth to ensure a well-balanced I/O
system.
The end-to-end I/O system consists of more components than just the CPUs and disks. A wellbalanced I/O
system must provide approximately the same bandwidth across all components in
the I/O system. These components include:
* Host bus adapters (HBAs), the connectors between the server and the storage.
* Switches, in between the servers and a storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage
(NAS).
* Ethernet adapters for network connectivity (GigE NIC or Infiniband). In an Oracle Real
Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) environment, you need an additional private port for the
interconnect between the nodes that you should not include when sizing the system for I/O
throughput. The interconnect must be sized separately, taking into account factors such as
internode parallel execution.
* Wires that connect the individual components.
Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10578/tdpdw_system.htm#autoId2
Explanation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10578/tdpdw_system.htm
QUESTION 20
Your BI tool (for example, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Cognos) will be used to query an
Oracle database that includes the Oracle BI tool generate in submitting queries that might include data stored in
cubes?
A. SQL
B. PIVSQL
C. Proprietary API code
D. SQL for relational and proprietary API code for OLAP
Explanation:
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is most commonly used with the
Oracle Database using SQL as the query language. Although the OLAP cube is a
multidimensional data type, it is represented in the Oracle database as a collection
of relational views and is easily queried by SQL.
Note #1: The wording of the question is strange. SQL can be used and is the first choice. So it
seems to be the best answer.
Note #2: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBI EE) is a product suite based
on the OBI EE Server. The OBI EE Server can map a logical business model to
many different physical data sources and present the logical model for query to
variety of client applications including Interactive Dashboards, Answers and Oracle
Business Intelligence Plug-in for Microsoft Office.
Reference: Using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition with the OLAP Option to Oracle
Database 11g, Oracle Whitepaper
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 21
Identify the true statement about adaptive parallelism.
A. It Is turned on by default.
B. It is turned off by default.
C. You should always leave the default setting
D. There is no such thing.
Correct Answer: A

Explanation
Adaptive Parallelism: The adaptive multiuser algorithm, which is enabled by default,reduces the degree of
parallelism as the load on the system increases. When using the Oracle Database adaptive parallelism
capabilities, the database uses an algorithm at SQL execution time to determine whether a parallel operation
should receive the requested DOP or have its DOP lower to ensure the system is not overloaded. In a system
that makes aggressive use of parallel execution by using a high DOP, the adaptive algorithm adjusts the DOP
down when only a few operations are running in parallel. While the algorithm still ensures optimal resource
utilization, users may experience inconsistent response times. Using solely the adaptive parallelism capabilities
in an environment that requires deterministic response times is not advised. Adaptive parallelism is controlled
through the database initialization parameter PARALLEL_ADAPTIVE_MULTI_USER. Reference: Oracle
Database VLDB and Partitioning Guide, 11g Release 2 (11.2), How Parallel Execution Works
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25523/parallel002.htm#BEIECCDD
Explanation: http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/category/oracle/exadata/page/3/
QUESTION 22
How can you use Oracle Data Mining with Oracle Warehouse builder?
A. To identify records to extract
B. As a standard transform operation
C. To increase write performance
D. To eliminate ETL logging
Correct Answer: A
Explanation Data Mining and Data Warehousing Data can be mined whether it is stored in flat files,
spreadsheets, database tables, or some other storage format. The important criteria for the data is not the
storage format, but its applicability to the problem to be solved. Proper data cleansing and preparation are very
important for data mining, and a data warehouse can facilitate these activities. However, a data warehouse will
be of no use if it does not contain the data you need to solve your problem. Oracle Data Mining requires that the
data be presented as a case table in single-record case format. All the data for each record (case) must be
contained within a row. Most typically, the case table is a view that presents the data in the required format for
mining Note: Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) enables the design and deployment of enterprise
datawarehouses, data marts, and e-business intelligence applications. Reference: Oracle Data Mining, Concepts
11g Release 1 (11.1)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/datamine.111/b28129.pdf
Explanation: http://blogs.oracle.com/datamining/
QUESTION 23
Which is NOT among Oracle SQL Analytic functions included in Oracle Database 11g?
A. Ranking functions
B. Substring functions
C. Window aggregate functions
D. LAG/LEAD functions
E. All of the above
Correct Answer: B
Explanation Substring functions are not analytic.
Explanation: Correct Answer: All Functions are there in 11G http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plqdad/
db_pages.getCourseDesc?dc=D52496GC10&p_org_id=68&lang=US
QUESTION 24
Which feature would enable higher availability during maintenance operations while also improving query
response performance?
A. Partitioning
B. Materialized views
C. Bitmap Indexing
D. OLAP
Correct Answer: A
Explanation Partitioning enhances the performance, manageability, and availability of a wide
variety of applications and helps reduce the total cost of ownership for storing large amounts of
data. Partitioning allows tables, indexes, and index-organized tables to be subdivided into smaller
pieces, enabling these database objects to be managed and accessed at a finer level of
granularity. Oracle provides a rich variety of partitioning strategies and extensions to address
every business requirement. Moreover, since it is entirely transparent, partitioning can be applied
to almost any application without the need for potentially expensive and time consuming
application changes.
Concepts
Explanation: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/server.101/b10743/partconc.htm
QUESTION 25
What are three advantages provided by proper partitioning in a data warehouse?
A. Partition pruning will occur
B. Faster sorting
C. Efficient parallel joins
D. Efficient data loading
E. Reduced disk usage
Correct Answer: ACD
Explanation There are three major advantages of partitioning.
* Partition Pruning Oracle only accesses a limited set of table partitions if the FROM and WHERE
clause permit it to.
* Partition-wise Joins Where two tables that have compatible partitioning schemes are joined ,
Oracle improves the efficiency of parallel operations by performing the join between individual
partitions of the tables.
* Manageability Partitioning allows DDL operations on a large subset of table rows with some
element of commonality defined through the partitioning type.
Reference:
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3317621/A-Practical-Guide-to-DataWarehousing-inOraclePart-3.htm
Explanation: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3317621/A-Practical- Guide-to-DataWarehousing-in-Oracle---Part-3.htm
QUESTION 26
Which Oracle option might be used to encrypt sensitive data in an Oracle data warehouse?
A. Active Data Guard
B. Total Recall
C. Advanced Security Option
D. Virtual Private Database
Correct Answer: C
Explanation Oracle Advanced Security is an option to the Oracle Database 11g Enterprise
Edition that helps address privacy and regulatory requirements including the
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and numerous breach notification

laws. Oracle Advanced Security provides data encryption and strong authentication
services to the Oracle database, safeguarding sensitive data against unauthorized
access from the network and the operating system. It also protects against theft,
loss, and improper decommissioning of storage media and database backups.
Reference: Oracle Advanced Security
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/advanced-security/ds-security-advancedsecurity-11gr2-1129479.pdf
Explanation: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/advanced-security/ds-securityadvancedsecurity-11gr2-1-129479.pdf
QUESTION 27
What data can you compress using Advanced Compression in Oracle Database 11g?
A. Read only data
B. Data that can be updated, inserted and/or deleted (DML)
C. Only data being archived
D. Data warehousing data
Correct Answer: B
Explanation Oracle Database 11g has new option named as Oracle Advanced Table
Compression option which aims at reducing space occupied by data for both OLTP and
warehouse databases. This option provides the following types of compression:
* Compression of data tables even for OLTP environment. (Previous versions had compression
option for tables that are mostly read only).
* Compression of unstructured data in SecureFiles.
* Compression of RMAN backups.
* Compression in Data Pump Export files.
* Compression of redo data transmitted to a standby database during redo gap resolution (when
data guard is configured).
Explanation: https://ophelia.cs.put.poznan.pl/webdav/dbdw/students/dbdw- summer_2009/lectures/etl.pdf
QUESTION 28
What are Oracle Data Integrator templates used for?
A. To model SAP applications
B. To define how to transform data
C. As reports to monitor ETL activity
D. None of these
Correct Answer: B
Explanation Oracle Data Integrator streamlines the high performance movement and
transformation of data between disparate systems in batch, real-time, synchronous, and
asynchronous modes.
Knowledge Modules are at the core of the Oracle Data Integrator architecture. They
make all Oracle Data Integrator processes modular, flexible, and extensible.
Knowledge Modules implement the actual data flows and define the templates for
generating code across the multiple systems involved in each process. Knowledge
Modules are generic, because they allow data flows to be generated regardless of
the transformation rules. And they are highly specific, because the code they
generate and the integration strategy they implement are finely tuned for a given
technology. Oracle Data Integrator provides a comprehensive library of Knowledge
Modules, which can be tailored to implement existing best practices (for example,
for highest performance, for adhering to corporate standards, or for specific vertical
know-how).
By helping companies capture and reuse technical expertise and best practices,
Oracle Data Integrators Knowledge Module framework reduces the cost of

ownership. It also enables metadata-driven extensibility of product functionality to
meet the most demanding data integration challenges.
Reference: Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle Data Sheet
Explanation: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/24079944/Oracle-Data-Integrator-Architecture
QUESTION 29
Your customer is looking to implement ad-hoc analysis in a data warehouse. Which approach is least likely to
be used assuming that the customer does not want the expense of managing view?
A. Star schema
B. Snowflake schema
C. Third normal form schema
D. OLAP
Correct Answer: C
Explanation: Data warehouses often use denormalized or partially denormalized schemas (such as a star
schema) to optimize query performance. On the other hand OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) systems
often use fully normalized schemas to optimize update/insert/delete performance, and to guarantee data
consistency. Reference: Oracle Database Data Warehousing Guide, 11g Release 1 (11.1)
QUESTION 30
You want partitions to be automatically created when data that does not fit into current date range loaded.
Which type of partitioning would you implement?
A. Hash
B. List
C. Invisible
D. Interval
Correct Answer: D
Explanation Interval Partitioning was introduced in 11g, interval partitions are extensions to
range partitioning. These provide automation for equi-sized range partitions. Partitions are created
as metadata and only the start partition is made persistent. The additional segments are allocated
as the data arrives. The additional partitions and local indexes are automatically created.
Note: Partitioning is one of the most sought after options for data warehousing. Almost all Oracle
data warehouses use partitioning to improve the performance of queries and also to ease the dayto-day
maintenance complexities. Starting with 11G, more partitioning options have been provided
and these should reduce the burden of the DBA to a great extent.
Reference: Partitioning in Oracle 11g, Oracle FAQs
Explanation:
http://books.google.com/books?id=tdRes4IdLiIC&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=invisible+partitionin g+in
+oracle&source=bl&ots=7QCZ1beter&sig=FXoQ-4F-tF3cB6HgYG8q3TWHrqc&hl=en&ei=I90TcinE4aL4AaH1OWkCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=o
nepage&q=invisible%20partitioning%20in%20oracle&f=false
QUESTION 31
You want to create an optimally performing data warehouse hardware configuration for your customer. Which
way of creating a hardware configuration will reduce the implementation time the most?
A. Use reference configurations or an appliance-like configuration.
B. Use the existing system and add on relevant components.
C. Customize a configuration from a vendor.
D. Build the system from scratch.
Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
Oracle Optimized Warehouse Reference Configurations are best practice guides to
choosing the right server, storage and networking components to build an Oracle data warehouse.
These best practice guides encapsulate years of configuration expertise from Oracle and its
partners, helping customers take the risk out of implementing a data warehouse.
Reference: ORACLE OPTIMIZED WAREHOUSE REFERENCE CONFIGURATIONS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
QUESTION 32
What would you do to compress data in partitions that are frequently updated in Oracle Database 11g?
A. Use Hybrid Columnar Compression.
B. Use Advanced Compression Option.
C. Use Hybrid Partitions.
D. Avoid compressing any data.
Correct Answer: B
Explanation Advanced Compression features in Oracle Database 11g include: * Online Transaction Processing
(OLTP) Table Compression: This breakthrough compression feature compresses table data during all types of
data manipulation operations, including conventional INSERT or UPDATE. OLTP Table Compression leverages
a sophisticated and intelligent algorithm that minimizes
compression overhead during write operations, thereby making it viable for highly transactional workloads
Reference: Oracle Advanced Compression, Oracle Data Sheet Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) on
Exadata, Oracle White Paper
Explanation:
http://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/2010/01/new_whitepaper_on_exadata_hybr.html
QUESTION 33
Identify the control structure that would NOT be defined as part of a data flow with Oracle Data Integrator.
A. Loops
B. Conditions
C. Error handling
D. GOTOs
Correct Answer: D
Explanation GOTOs cannot be used within the Oracle Data Integrator.
Reference: DIJQR.pdf, Page 7 (Oracle Data Integrator)
Explanation:
http://www.oracle.com/global/hu/events/20080917/1_odi_odd_%20introduction_and_architecture.pdf
QUESTION 34
Which condition can cause a change in the contents of the SQL Result Set Cache?
A. SQL result sets age out of the Result Set Cache based on the KEEP parameter.
B. SQL result sets are invalidated in the Result Set Cache after DML is performed against any of tables in the
SQL query.
C. SQL result sets are pinned in the Result Set Cache with the KEEP parameter.
D. None of these would cause a change.
Correct Answer: B
Explanation The database automatically invalidates a cached result whenever a transaction
modifies the data or metadata of any of the database objects used to construct that cached result.
Note: DML is abbreviation of Data Manipulation Language. It is used to retrieve, store, modify,
delete, insert and update data in database.
Reference: From oracle documentation
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28318/memory.htm#BGBEEFBE
Explanation: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/memory.htm
QUESTION 35
What would you use to evenly distribute data across the disk in your Oracle data warehouse?
A. Range Partitioning
B. Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
C. List Partitioning
D. RAC
Correct Answer: B
Explanation Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is a feature provided by Oracle Corporation
within the Oracle Database from release Oracle 10g (revision 1) onwards. ASM aims to simplify
the management of database files. To do so, it provides tools to manage file systems and volumes
directly inside the database, allowing database administrators (DBAs) to control volumes and
disks with familiar SQL statements in standard Oracle environments. Thus DBAs do not need
extra skills in specific file systems or volume managers (which usually operate at the level of the
operating system).
With ASM:
* IO channels can take advantage of data striping and software mirroring
* DBAs can automate online redistribution of data, along with the addition and removal of
disks/storage
* the system maintains redundant copies and provides 3rd-party[citation needed] RAID
functionality
* Oracle supports third-party multipathing IO technologies (such as failover or load balancing to
SAN access) the need for hot spares diminishes
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Storage_Management
Explanation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28314/tdpdw_system.htm
QUESTION 36
Identify the action that you CANNOT perform using Database Resource Manager.
A. Define Consumer Groups.
B. Create rules to map sessions to Consumer Groups.
C. Define a Resource Plan.
D. Allocate individual CPUs to Consumer Groups.
Correct Answer: D
Explanation Oracle Database Resource Management (DRM) provides tools that allow any
Oracle DBA to manage a database servers CPU resources effectively for application user groups
and during different resource demand periods.
DRM consists of four basic components:
*Resource Consumer Groups (not A). A resource consumer group is a collection of users with
similar requirements for resource consumption. Users can be assigned to more than one resource
consumer group, but each users active session can only be assigned to one resource consumer
group at a time.
*Resource Plans (not C). In its simplest form, a resource plan describes the resources allocated to
one or more resource consumer group(s).
*Resource Plan Directives (not B). Resource plan directives allocate resources among the
resource consumer groups in the resource plan. Essentially, directives connect resource
consumer groups or subplans to their resource plans.
* SYSTEM_PLAN. Oracle supplies an initial, default resource plan named SYSTEM_PLAN. This
plan implements a CPU utilization resource allocation method to divide and prioritize CPU
resources to three resource consumer groups
Explanation: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/performance/resource- manager-twp133705.pdf
QUESTION 37
You are looking to create a RAC cluster to deliver high performance for your client's data warehouse. Which
statement is true about a configuration with a few large nodes versus a configuration with n smaller nodes?
A. A few large nodes always perform better than many small nodes.
B. A few large nodes always perform worse than many small nodes.
C. It depends on the workload specifics and the effect of a node failure.
D. Performance should be the same with either option.
Correct Answer: D
Explanation
Explanation: http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/datawarehousing/039574.pdf
QUESTION 38
Data Guard compresses data:
A. Always
B. When using logical standby
C. When using physical standby
D. When catching up after a network failure
Correct Answer: C
Explanation A Physical standby database replicates the exact contents of its primary database
across the Oracle Net network layer. While the physical storage locations can be different, the
data in the database will be exactly the same as the primary database.
Incorrect answer:
A, B: Logical standby databases convert the redo generated at the Primary database into data and
SQL and then re-apply those SQL transactions on the Logical standby, thus physical structures
and organization will be different from the Primary database. Users can read from logical standby
databases while the changes are being applied and, if the GUARD is set to STANDBY (ALTER
DATABASE GUARD STANDBY;), write to tables in the Logical standby database that are not
being maintained by SQL Apply.
Unfortunately there are a number of unsupported objects (ie: tables or sequences owned by
SYS, tables that use table compression, tables that underlie a materialized view or Global
temporary tables (GTTs)) and unsupported data types (ie: Datatypes BFILE, ROWID, and
UROWID, user-defined TYPEs, Multimedia data types like Oracle Spatial, ORDDICOM, and
Oracle Text Collections (e.g. nested tables, VARRAYs), SecureFile LOBs, OBJECT RELATIONAL
XMLTypes and BINARY XML).[2] Physical standby may be appropriate in such a case.
Explanation: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=886988
QUESTION 39
A Full Rack Oracle Exadata Database Machine can contain 100 TB of disk space with high performance. How
much user data should you conservatively estimate this configuration can hold?
A. 100 TB
B. 75 TB
C. 50 TB
D. 28 TB
E. 20 TB
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: Without any redundancy (high performance is the only goal) you can use 100% of the disk space to
data. With disk mirroring (with lower performance) you can use 50% of the disk space to data.
QUESTION 40
Indentify the true statement about REF partitions.
A. REF partitions have no impact on partition-wise joins.
B. Changes to partitioning in the parent table are automatically reflected in the child table.
C. Changes in the data in a parent table are reflected in a child table.

D. REF partitions can save storage space in the parent table.
Correct Answer: B
Explanation Reference partitioning is a partitioning method introduced in Oracle 11g. Using
reference partitioning, a child table can inherit the partitioning characteristics from a parent table.
Explanation: http://rajeshwaranbtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/ora-14652-in-reference-partitioning- in.html
QUESTION 42
Which is NOT an available composite partition in Oracle Database 11g?
A. range-list
B. list-list
C. list-range
D. interval-hash
Correct Answer: D
Explanation Extended Composite Partitioning
In previous releases of Oracle, composite partitioning was limited to Range-Hash and Range-List
partitioning. Oracle 11g Release 1 extends this to allow the following composite partitioning
schemes:
Range-Hash (available since 8i)
Range-List (available since 9i)
Range-Range
List-Range
List-Hash
List-List
Note: inverval-hash is a valid Interval partitioning.
Reference:
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/PartitioningEnhancements_11gR1.php
Explanation: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/PartitioningEnhancements_11gR1.php
QUESTION 43
What two types of results can be cached in the Result Set Cache?
A. Results of an SQL query
B. Results from a PL/SQL function
C. Sequence object results
D. Result sets derived from data dictionary tables
Correct Answer: AB
Explanation Your applications sometime send repetitive queries to the database. To improve the
response time of repetitive queries, results of queries, query fragments, and PL/SQL functions can
be cached in memory. A result cache stores the results of queries shared across all sessions.
When these queries are executed repeatedly, the results are retrieved directly from the cache
memory.
You must annotate a query or query fragment with a result cache hint to indicate that results are to
be stored in the query result cache.
The query result set can be cached in the following ways:
* Server-side Cache
* Client Result Cache
Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1) provides support for server-side Result Set caching for
both JDBC types. The server-side result cache is used to cache the results of the current queries,
query fragments, and PL/SQL functions in memory and then to use the cached results in future
executions of the query, query fragment, or PL/SQL function. The cached results reside in the
result cache memory portion of the SGA. A cached result is automatically invalidated whenever a
database object used in its creation is successfully modified. The server-side caching can be of
the following two types:
* SQL Query Result Cache (A)
* PL/SQL Function Result Cache (B)
Explanation: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/java.111/b31224/stmtcach.htm
QUESTION 44
How many Exadata Storage Server cells can be used in a grid?
A. 7
B. 14
C. 128
D. No practical limit
Correct Answer: D
Explanation There is no practical limit to number of cells that can be in the grid.
Reference: Sun Oracle Exadata and Database Machine Overview
Explanation: http://www.pythian.com/news/1267/interview-kevin-closson-on-the-oracle-exadata- storage-server/
QUESTION 45
Identify the statement about Oracle OLAP that is NOT true.
A. Oracle OLAP cubes are stored in the Oracle relational database
B. Oracle OLAP uses standard Oracle database security.
C. Meta data for Oracle OLAP is accessible in an external data dictionary
D. Oracle OU\P can be deployed using RAC.
Correct Answer: C
Explanation
All metadata for cubes and dimensions is stored in the Oracle database. Reference: Oracle OLAP Users Guide,
11g Release 1 (11.1), Whats New in Oracle OLAP?
Reference: Oracle OLAP Users Guide, 11g Release 1 (11.1), 8 Security
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/olap.111/b28124/whatsnew.htm
Explanation: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/olap.111/b28124/whatsnew.htm
According to the answer; "Oracle OLAP uses standard Oracle database security." is a false statement and
"Meta data for Oracle OLAP is accessible in an external data dictionary" is a correct statement.
But in Oracle
documentation, http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/olap.112/e17123/overview.htm#i1 011393 ; is
says "With Oracle OLAP, standard Oracle Database security features are used to secure your multidimensional
data.".
QUESTION 46
One goal of your Information Life cycle Management strategy using Oracle's ILM capabilities is to reduce e cost
or online storage. Identify two database options that would help in enabling such a strategy.
A. RAC and Advanced Compression
B. RAC and Partitioning
C. Partitioning and Advanced Compression
D. RAC One and Advanced Compression
Correct Answer: B
Explanation: Advanced compression:
Advanced Compression, an option introduced in Oracle Database 11 g Enterprise Edition, offers a
comprehensive set of compression capabilities to help organizations reduce costs, while
maintaining or improving performance. It significantly reduces the storage footprint of databases
through compression of structured data (numbers, characters) as well as unstructured data
(documents, spreadsheets, XML and other files). It provides enhanced compression for database
backups and also includes network compression capabilities for faster synchronization of standby
databases.
Archival Compression:
* Built on HCC technology
* Compression algorithm optimized for maximum storage savings
* Benefits any application with data retention requirements
* Best approach for ILM and data archival
Partitioning:
There are a number of benefits to partitioning data. Partitioning provides an easy way to distribute
the data across appropriate storage devices depending on its usage, while still keeping the data
online and stored on the most cost-effective device. Since partitioning is completely transparent to
anyone accessing the data, no application changes are required, thus partitioning can be
implemented at any time.
Note There is a wide variety of information held in an organization today, for example it
could be an email message, a picture, or an order in an Online Transaction
Processing System. Therefore, once the type of data being retained has been
identified, you already have an understanding of what its evolution and final destiny
is likely to be.
The challenge now before all organizations, is to understand how their data evolves
and grows, monitor how its usage changes over time, and decide how long it should
survive. In addition, the evolving rules and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley,
place additional constraints on the data that is being retained and some
organizations now require that data is deleted when there is no longer a legal
requirement to keep it, to avoid expensive e-discovery when the data is requested
for a legal matter.
Implementing ILM using Oracle Database 11g Page 4 Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is
designed to address these issues, with
a combination of processes, policies, software and hardware so that the appropriate
technology can be used for each phase of the lifecycle of the data.1
Reference: Oracle Database VLDB and Partitioning Guide, 11g Release 1 (11.1), 5 Using
Partitioning for Information Lifecycle Management
QUESTION 47
For which task would you NOT use Oracle Data Mining?
A. Predicting customer behavior
B. Associating factors with a business issue
C. Determining associations within a population
D. Reducing the amount of data used in a data warehouse
E. All of the above
Correct Answer: D
Explanation Data mining does not reduce the amount of data in the warehouse.
Note:
Data mining (the analysis step of the knowledge discovery in databases process, or KDD), a
relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new
patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine
learning, statistics and database systems. The overall goal of the data mining process is to extract
knowledge from a data set in a human-understandable structure and besides the raw analysis
step involves database and data management aspects, data preprocessing, model and inference
considerations, interestingness metrics, complexity considerations, post-processing of found
structure, visualization and online updating.
Explanation: For All above we can use Oracle Data Mining http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1157021
QUESTION 48
The most performant way to load data from an external table that will also guarantee direct path loading is:
A. Using Create Table as Select (CTAS)
B. Using Data Pump
C. Using Insert as Select (IAS)
D. Using transparent gateways
Correct Answer: A
Explanation CTAS refers to a CREATE TABLE AS statement a new table is created and populated with row
from a specified query.
The most common uses of CTAS are in these scenarios:
* Creating a table identical to another table in structure, but with a filter criteria applied to its data.
* Creating a table with small structural differences from an existing table.
For best performance use Direct Path Load. The conventional path uses standard insert
statements whereas the direct path loader loads directly into the Oracle data files and creates
blocks in Oracle database block format.
During direct-path INSERT operations, the database appends the inserted data after existing data
in the table. Data is written directly into datafiles, bypassing the buffer cache. Free space in the
existing data is not reused, and referential integrity constraints are ignored. These procedures
combined can enhance performance.
Reference: Oracle Database Administrators Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1), Loading Tables
http://www.filibeto.org/sun/lib/nonsun/oracle/11.1.0.6.0/B28359_01/server.111/b28310/tables004.h
tm
Explanation:
http://www.filibeto.org/sun/lib/nonsun/oracle/11.1.0.6.0/B28359_01/server.111/b28310/tables004.htm
QUESTION 49
Identify the benefit of using interval partitioning.
A. Automatic creation of new partitions based on hash values
B. Automatic creation of new partitions based on the value of data being entered
C. Improved performance compared to range partitions
D. Automatic transfer of older partitions lower cost storage
Correct Answer: B
Explanation Interval Partitioning was introduced in 11g, interval partitions are extensions to
range partitioning. These provide automation for equi-sized range partitions. Partitions are created
as metadata and only the start partition is made persistent. The additional segments are allocated
as the data arrives. The additional partitions and local indexes are automatically created.
Reference: Partitioning in Oracle 11g, Oracle FAQs
Explanation: http://prutser.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/dropping-interval-partitions
QUESTION 50
Which is NOT an advantage provided by partitioning?
A. Reduces storage requirements for tables
B. Can add to the benefits of parallelism through parallel partition-wise joins
C. Can improve performance by reducing I/O
D. Provides added flexibility for maintenance operations
Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
Table storage requirements would increase, but the benefits are huge.
Oracle partitioning is a divide-and-conquer approach to improving Oracle maintenance and SQL
performance. Anyone with un-partitioned databases over 500 gigabytes is courting disaster.
Databases become unmanageable, and serious problems occur:
* SQL may perform poorly Without Oracle partitioning, SQL queries with full-table scans take
hours to complete. In a full scan, the smaller the Oracle partition, the faster the performance. Also,
index range scans become inefficient.
* Recovery Files recovery takes days, not minutes
* Maintenance Rebuilding indexes (important to re-claim space and improve performance)
Oracle partitioning has many benefits to improve performance and manageability:
* Stable
* Robust
* Faster backups
* Less overhead
* Easier management
Maintenance of Oracle partitioned tables is improved because maintenance can be focused on
particular portions of tables. For maintenance operations across an entire database object, it is
possible to perform these operations on a per-partition basis, thus dividing the maintenance
process into more manageable chunks. (not D)
* Faster SQL Oracle is partition-aware, and some SQL may improve is speed by several orders
of magnitude (over 100x faster).
Index range scans Oracle partitioning physically sequences rows in index-order causing a
dramatic improvement (over 10x faster) in the speed of partition-key scans.
Full-table scans Oracle partition pruning only accesses those data blocks required by the
query.
Table joins Oracle partition-wise joins take the specific sub-set of the query partitions, causing
huge speed improvements on nested loop and hash joins. (not C)
You can also improve the performance of massive join operations when large amounts of data
(for example, several million rows) are joined together by using partition-wise joins. (not B)
Updates Oracle parallel query for partitions improves batch load speed.
Reference: http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_tips_partitioning.htm
QUESTION 51
Which two statements are true about the advantages of using a data warehouse?
A. A data warehouse uses fewer database structures, so access to answers is faster and easier
B. A data warehouse is typically implemented with a different design, making access faster.
C. A data warehouse is optimized for ongoing write activity, making response faster.
D. A data warehouse uses specialized features of the Oracle database, like materialized views and star
transformations, making response faster.
Correct Answer: BD
Explanation: Data warehouses often use denormalized or partially denormalized schemas (such as a star
schema) to optimize query performance.
Note: A materialized view is a pre-computed table comprising aggregated or joined data from fact and possibly
dimension tables. Also known as a summary or aggregate table. Reference: Oracle Database Data Warehousing
Guide, 11g Release 1 (11.1)
QUESTION 52
Identity the true statement about a data warehouse
A. The data warehouse is typically refreshed as often as a transactional system,
B. Data warehouse queries are simpler than OLTP queries.
C. A data warehouse typically contains historical data.
D. Queries against a data warehouse never need summarized information.
Correct Answer: C
Explanation A data warehouse is a relational database that is designed for query and analysis rather than for
transaction processing. It usually contains historical data derived from transaction data, but it can include data
from other sources. It separates analysis workload from transaction workload and enables an organization to
consolidate data from several sources.
Explanation: http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+OLAP+Terminology-D
QUESTION 53
Which statement is true for you to get the benefits of partition-wise joins?
A. The parent table must be partitioned on the join Key and the child table must be partitioned on] the join key.
B. The parent table must be partitioned on the primary key and the child table must be partition the join key.
C. The child table must use a reference partition.
D. The parent table must be partitioned on the primary key and the child table must use a ref partition.
Correct Answer: A
Explanation Partition-wise joins reduce query response time by minimizing the amount of data exchanged
among parallel execution servers when joins execute in parallel. This significantly reduces
response time and improves the use of both CPU and memory resources. In Oracle Real
operations.
Partition-wise joins can be full or partial. Oracle decides which type of join to use.
Explanation: http://oracle.su/docs/11g/server.112/e10837/partition.htm
QUESTION 54
Identify the type of refresh that is NOT supported by materialized views.
A. Deferred
B. Incremental
C. Full
D. Heuristic
Correct Answer: D
Explanation Use the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statement to create a materialized view. A
materialized view is a database object that contains the results of a query.
Incorrect answer:
A: Specify DEFERRED to indicate that the materialized view is to be populated by the next
REFRESH operation.
B: Oracle Database uses the default index to speed up incremental (FAST) refresh of the
materialized view.
C: By default, Oracle Database creates a primary key materialized view with refresh on demand
only. If a materialized view log exists on the table, then the column can be altered to be capable of
fast refresh. If no such log exists, then only full refresh of the column is possible.
Reference: Oracle Database SQL Language Reference, 11g Release 1 (11.1),CREATE
MATERIALIZED VIEW
Explanation: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10500_01/server.920/a96520/mv.htm#42135
QUESTION 55
HI want to enable result set caching to quickly see if this feature will help the performance of your application.
Which is the quickest way to make this determination?
A. Set RESULT_CACHE_MODE = FORCE in the initialization file.
B. Set RESULT_CACHE = ENABLED in the initialization file.
C. Set RESULT_CACHE_MAX_SIZE = 0.
D. Set RESULT_CACHE = ENABLED in the initialization file and use a RESULT_CACHE hint in queries.
Correct Answer: A
Explanation The RESULT_CACHE_MODE initialization parameter determines the SQL query
result cache mode. The parameter specifies when a ResultCache operator is spliced into a querys
execution plan. The parameter accepts the following values:
FORCE
The ResultCache operator is added to the root of all SELECT statements, if that is possible.
However, if the statement contains a NO_RESULT_CACHE hint, then the hint takes precedence
over the parameter setting.
MANUAL
The ResultCache operator is added, only if you use the RESULT_CACHE hint in the SQL query.
Reference: http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Oracle11g/00000014.htm
Explanation: http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Oracle11g/00000014.htm
QUESTION 56
You can perform what-if analysis of potential changes with Oracle Warehouse Builder.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
The Metadata Dependency Manager (MDM) enables you to plan your project by
previewing the impact of the changes or future changes for what-if analysis. When
you plan to introduce changes to your source systems, you can gauge the impact of
that change on your warehouse design. If changes have already been introduced, then
you can plan the time required to update your ETL design and rebuild your data
warehouse.
Reference: Oracle Warehouse Builder, Concepts, 11g Release 2 (11.2)
QUESTION 57
How does compression affect resource utilization?
A. Reduces the amount of CPU and disk utilization
B. Increases the amount of CPU and disk utilization
C. Reduces the amount of disk but increases CPU utilization for loading
D. Increases the amount of disk but reduces CPU utilization for loading!
Correct Answer: C
Explanation Compression is useful because it helps reduce the consumption of resources suchas data space or
transmission capacity. Because compressed data must be decompressed to beused, this extra processing
imposes computational or other costs through decompression.
Explanation: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITSMFD/SC32-9065- 00/en_US/HTML/ab5w0007.htm
QUESTION 58
Which questions CANNOT be addressed by Oracle Data Mining?
A. Fraud detection
B. Prediction of customer behavior
C. Root cause de
D. Identify factors associated with a business problem
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
Data Mining can provide valuable results:
*Predict customer behavior (Classification) (not B)
*Predict or estimate a value (Regression)
*Segment a population (Clustering)
*Identify factors more associated with a business
problem (Attribute Importance) (not D)
* Find profiles of targeted people or items (Decision Trees)
* Determine important relationships and market baskets
within the population (Associations)
* Find fraudulent or rare events (Anomaly Detection) (not A)
Reference: Anomaly and Fraud Detection with Oracle Data Mining 11g Release 2
QUESTION 59
Which best describes Oracle's OLAP Option for Oracle Database 11g Release 2?
A. Is stored as relational tables and is considered a ROLAP solution
B. Uses bitmap indexes
C. Physically stores MOU\P cubes as objects within the relational database
D. Is available both within the Oracle Database and as a stand-alone solution
Correct Answer: AB
Explanation:
Oracle OLAP is a world class multidimensional analytic engine embedded in Oracle
Database 11g. Oracle OLAP cubes deliver sophisticated calculations using simple SQL queries -producing
results with speed of thought response times. This outstanding query performance may
be leveraged transparently when deploying OLAP cubes as materialized views enhancing the
performance of summary queries against detail relational tables. Because Oracle OLAP is
embedded in Oracle Database 11g, it allows centralized management of data and business rules
in a secure, scalable and enterprise-ready platform.
QUESTION 60
What are two ways in which query performance can be improved with partitioning?
A. Partition pruning
B. Partition optimization
C. Partition compression
D. Partition-wise joins
Correct Answer: AD
Explanation:
A: Even when you dont name a specific partition in a SQL statement, the fact that a table is partitioned might still
influence the manner in which the statement accesses the table. When a SQL statement accesses one or more
partitioned tables, the Oracle optimizer attempts touse the information in the WHERE clause to eliminate some
of the partitions from consideration during statement execution. This process, called partition pruning, speeds
statement execution by ignoring any partitions that cannot satisfy the statements WHERE clause. To do so, the
optimize ruses information from the table definition combined with information from the statements Where
clause.
D: A partition wise join is a join between (for simplicity) two tables that are partitioned on the same column with
the same partitioning scheme. In shared nothing this is effectively hard partitioning locating data on a specific
node / storage combo. In Oracle is is logical partitioning. If you now join the two tables on that partitioned column
you can break up the join in smaller joins exactly along the partitions in the data. Since they are partitioned
(grouped) into the same buckets,all values required to do the join live in the equivalent bucket on either sides.
No need to talk to anyone else, no need to redistribute data to anyone else in short, the optimal join method
for parallel processing of two large data sets.
QUESTION 61
Identify the statement about ASM that is NOT true.
A. ASM is easier to manage than file systems.
B. ASM delivers the performance of raw partitions.
C. ASM is an extra cost option for Oracle databases.
D. ASM delivers automatic striping and mirroring.
Correct Answer: B
Explanation
ASM is a management tool, not a RAW performance tool. Note:Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is a new
feature that has be introduced in Oracle 10g to simplify the storage of Oracle datafiles, control files and logfiles.
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) simplifies administration of Oracle related files by allowing the
administrator to reference disk groups rather than individual disks and files, which are managed by ASM. The
ASM functionality is an extension of the Oracle Managed Files (OMF)
functionality that also includes striping and mirroring to provide balanced and secure storage. The new ASM
functionality can be used in combination with existing raw and cooked file systems,along with OMF and manually
managed files. The ASM functionality is controlled by an ASM instance. This is not a full database instance, just
the memory structures and as such is very small and lightweight. The main components of ASM are disk groups,
each of which comprise of several physical disks that are controlled as a single unit. The physical disks are
known as ASM disks, while the files that reside on the disks are known as ASM files. The locations and names
for the files are controlled by ASM, but user-friendly aliases and directory structures can be defined for ease of
reference. The level of redundancy and the granularity of the striping can be controlled using templates. Default
templates are provided for each file type stored by ASM, but additional templates can be defined as needed.
Failure groups are defined within a disk group to support the required level of redundancy. For two-way mirroring
you would expect a disk group to contain two failure groups so individual files are written to two locations. In
summary ASM provides the following functionality:*Manages groups of disks, called disk groups.*Manages disk
redundancy within a disk group.*Provides near-optimal I/O balancing without any manual tuning.*Enables
management of database objects without specifying mount points and file names.*Supports large files.
Reference: Automatic Storage Management (ASM) in Oracle Database 10g
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/AutomaticStorageManagement10g.php
Explanation: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b31107/asmprepare.htm
QUESTION 62
Exadata uses smart scans, which are executed in________.
A. Exadata Storage Server cells
B. Database Server node memory
C. Database Server node CPUs
D. Exadata does not use smart scans.
Correct Answer: A
Explanation The Oracle Exadata Database Machine brings database performance to a whole
new level, but have you ever wondered what exactly makes it so fast? Several components of the
Oracle Exadata Database Machine, such as Oracle Database 11g Release 2; Oracle Exadatas
Smart Flash Cache, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and SmartScan features; and InfiniBand
interconnect, help deliver high performance. One of the key technologies that supports this
performance is the storage index, which is not a regular database index. Storage indexes reside in
the memory of the storage servers also called storage cell sand significantly reduce
unnecessary I/O by excluding irrelevant database blocks in the storage cells.
Oracle Exadata I/O and Smart Scan
Storage in Oracle Exadata changes query processing so that not all blocks have to go to the
database server for that server to determine which rows might satisfy a query. Oracle Exadatas
Smart Scan feature enables certain types of query processing to be done in the storage cell. With
Smart Scan technology, the database nodes send query details to the storage cells via a protocol
known as iDB (Intelligent Database). With this information, the storage cells can take over a large
portion of the data-intensive query processing. Oracle Exadata storage cells can search storage
disks with added intelligence about the query and send only the relevant bytes, not all the
database blocks, to the database nodeshence the term smart scan.
Reference: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2011/11-may/o31exadata-354069.html
Explanation: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/index.html
QUESTION 63
Your BI tool (for example, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, Business Objects and Cognos)
will be used to query an Oracle database that includes the Oracle OLAP Option What does tool generate in
submitting queries that might include data stored in relational tables and OLAP cubes?
A. SQL
B. PL/SQL
C. Proprietary API code
D. SQL for relational and proprietary API code for OLAP
Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
DBMS_CUBE PL/SQL Package. In Database 11gR2, a new feature was added that
allows cubes and dimensions to be entirely defined via PL/SQL calls, thus making it a much
simpler job to automate the creation and refresh of cubes within the context of an application.
A. is correct answer. BI tool can use data from different data sources (Ms SQLS,ORACLE,DB2 and etc.) and
should use more common approach to extract the data. Just SQL is more suitable in this case, moreover
database optimizer automatically aware of cube if it has already been exists.
QUESTION 64
You customer wants to segment their customers1 demographic data into those that use and do not use loyalty
card. What would you recommend?
A. Use Oracle OLAP Option.
B. Use Oracle SQL Analytic Functions.
C. Use classification algorithm in Oracle Data Mining.
D. Use non-negative matrix factorization in Oracle Data Mining.
Correct Answer: C
Explanation
Classification is a data mining function that assigns items in a collection to target categories or classes. The goal
of classification is to accurately predict the target class for each case in the data. For example, a classification
model could be used to identify loan applicants as low, medium, or high credit risks. The simplest type of
classification problem is binary classification. In binary classification, the target attribute has only two possible
values: for example, high credit rating or low credit rating Note:
Oracle Data Mining provides the following algorithms for classification: * Decision Tree Decision trees
automatically generate rules, which are conditional statements that reveal the logic used to build the tree. *
Naive Bayes Naive Bayes uses Bayes Theorem, a formula that calculates a probability by counting the
frequency of values and combinations of values in the historical data. * Generalized Linear Models (GLM)GLM is
a popular statistical technique for linear modeling. Oracle Data Mining implements GLM for binary classification
and for regression. GLM provides extensive coefficient statistics and model statistics, as well as row diagnostics.
GLM also supports confidence bounds.* Support Vector Machine Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a powerful,
state-of-the-art algorithm based on linear and nonlinear regression. Oracle Data Mining implements SVM for
binary and multiclass classification. Reference: Reference: Oracle Data Mining, Concepts 11g Release 1
(11.1)http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/datamine.111/b28129.pdf
Explanation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/datamine.111/b28129/intro_concepts.htm
QUESTION 65
Which feature of Oracle Warehouse Builder can be used to help ensure data quality?
A. Data extraction
B. Data profiling
C. Logical mapping
D. Exception reporting
Correct Answer: B
Explanation: After you connect to your data sources in Oracle Warehouse Builder (including
Oracle databases, sources accessed through gateways, and flat file sources) you can apply full featured data
profiling to generate statistics about data quality, and to discover complex patterns,
foreign key relationships, and functional dependencies. You can then design complex data rules
and create data auditors to monitor compliance with those rules in any source or target system in
your landscape, regardless of whether those sources are loaded using Oracle Warehouse Builder
or other ETL tools.
For customers who have selected solutions other than Oracle Warehouse Builder for data profiling
and data quality, these can be applied independently of Oracle Warehouse Builder ETL and
design features.
Note: Oracle Warehouse Builder is a full-featured data integration, data warehousing, data quality
and metadata management solution designed for the Oracle database. Oracle Warehouse Builder
is an integral part of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) and is installed as part of every
database installation (other than Oracle Database XE).
The major feature areas of Oracle Warehouse Builder include:
*Data modeling
*Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL)
*Data profiling and data quality
*Metadata management
*Business-level integration of ERP application data
*Integration with Oracle business intelligence tools for reporting purposes
*Advanced data lineage and impact analysis
Oracle Warehouse Builder is also an extensible data integration and data quality solutions
platform. Oracle Warehouse Builder can be extended to manage metadata specific to any
application, and can integrate with new data source and target types, and implement support for
new data access mechanisms and platforms, enforce your organizations best practices, and
foster the reuse of components across solutions.
Reference: Oracle Warehouse Builder Concepts, 11g Release 2 (11.2), 2 Introduction to Oracle
Warehouse Builder
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/owb.112/e10581/intro.htm
QUESTION 66
Why does partitioning help parallelism with RAC?
A. The ability to do partition-wise joins reduces interconnect traffic.
B. Partitioning allows you to split data storage across nodes.
C. Partitioning reduces storage requirements.
D. RAC will spawn additional parallel servers to meet the needs of requesting applications.
Correct Answer: A
Explanation Partition-wise joins reduce query response time by minimizing the amount of data
exchanged among parallel execution servers when joins execute in parallel. This significantly
reduces response time and improves the use of both CPU and memory resources. In Oracle Real
operations.
Partition-wise joins can be full or partial. Oracle decides which type of join to use.
for Availability, Manageability, and Performance
Explanation: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/server.817/a76994/parpart.htm
QUESTION 67
Your customer wants to implement an ILM strategy. The customer must have which option when deploying
Oracle's ILM Assistant to implement this strategy?
A. RAC
B. Partitioning
C. OLAP
D. Oracle Clusterware
Correct Answer: B
Explanation Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a set of policies and procedures for
managing data during its lifetime.
The ILM Assistant manages information by recommending the correct placement of data on logical
storage tiers as specified by a lifecycle definition, where a lifecycle definition describes the stages
and storage tiers that data resides on during its lifetime.
Each stage specifies a retention period during which the data resides on a logical storage tier. A
logical storage tier is a collection of Oracle tablespaces in which partitions may reside.
Note: Information today comes in a wide variety of types, for example an E-mail message, a
photograph, or an order in an Online Transaction Processing System. Therefore, once you know
the type of data and how it will be used, you already have an understanding of what its evolution
and final destiny is likely to be.
One of the challenges facing each organization is to understand how its data evolves and grows,
monitor how its usage changes over time, and decide how long it should survive, while adhering to
all the rules and regulations that now apply to that data. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
is designed to address these issues, with a combination of processes, policies, software, and
hardware so that the appropriate technology can be used for each stage in the lifecycle of the
data.
Reference: Implementing Information Lifecycle Management Using the ILM Assistant
Explanation: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/ilm/index.html
QUESTION 68
You can use Oracle Data Mining unstructured data.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Correct Answer: A
Explanation
Data that cannot be meaningfully interpreted as numerical or categorical is considered unstructured for purposes
of data mining. It has been estimated that as much as 85% of enterprise data falls into this category. Extracting
meaningful information from this unstructured data can be critical to the success of a business. Unstructured
data may be binary objects, such as image or audio files, or text objects, which are language-based. Oracle Data
Mining supports text objects. Text must undergo a transformation process before it can be mined. Once the data
has been properly transformed, the case table can be used for building, testing, or scoring data mining models.
Most Oracle Data Mining algorithms support text Reference: Oracle Data Mining, Concepts 11g Release 1
(11.1)http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/datamine.111/b28129.pdf
Explanation: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/datamine.111/b28129.pdf
QUESTION 69
Which unique method of improving performance is NOT used by the Oracle Exadata Database Machine?
A. Flash to improve query performance
B. Reduces the amount of data required to flow through I/O
C. Increases the I/O using InfiniBand
D. Performs analysis in a special in-memory database
Correct Answer: D
Explanation White paper, Exadata Smart Flash Cache and the Sun Oracle Database Machine
Explanation: http://techsatwork.com/blog/?p=743
QUESTION 70
The Analytic Workspace Manager would be used to generate_______.
A. Materialized views
B. Oracle OLAP Option cubes
C. Oracle Data Mining algorithms
D. Oracle SQL Analytic functions
Correct Answer: B
Explanation
You can use Analytic Workspace Manager for creating measures, dimensions and cubes in the OLAP database
if the database was installed with the OLAP option. Workspace Manager, a feature of Oracle Database, enables
application developers and DBAs to manage current, proposed and historical versions of data in the same
database. Note: Applications and DBA operations often work with more than one version of the data. Three
common reasons to have multiple data versions are concurrency, auditing and scenario creation. Oracle
Workspace Manager provides workspaces as a virtual environment to isolate a collection of changes to
production data, keep a history of changes to data and create multiple data scenarios for what if analysis. It can
save money, time and labor over traditional approaches.
OBIEE Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager supports Oracle Database 11g,
Release 1 (11.1), version 11.1.0.7 and later, and Oracle Database 11g, Release 2 (11.2).
What Is an Analytic Workspace Manager Plug-in?
Analytic Workspace Manager allows third parties to add new features by providing
plug-ins. A plug-in is a program that is launched from Analytic Workspace Manager.
Plug-ins share the database session with the instance of Analytic Workspace Manager.
You can use Analytic Workspace Manager plug-ins to add to or otherwise alter cubes
and dimensions, to define calculations, or for other purposes. Because a plug-in shares
a database connection and can modify your model, or even your data, be sure to use
plug-ins only from trusted sources. Analytic Workspace Manager plug-ins cannot
obtain the password used to start the Oracle Database session.
What Does OBIEE Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager Do?

OBIEE Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager allows you to create the Physical,
Business Model and Mapping, and Presentation layers of an OBIEE 10g repository. You
can use the repository to query an Oracle Database 11g OLAP cube using SQL. A
repository created by OBIEE Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager allows OBIEE to
query all data in the cube, including summary level data and measure calculations.
OBIEE Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager does not alter the definition or
content of your cubes or dimensions.
OBIEE Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager reads the definitions of one or more
cubes in a single analytic workspace, and the dimensions of the cubes, from the Oracle
Data Dictionary and generates OBIEE UDML code that be used by Oracle BI
Administration Tool. The plug-in exports the cube metadata to the system clipboard or
to a file.
Note: Oracle OLAP Cube Lab products are not supported by Oracle
Support. Please post questions, bug reports, and enhancement
requests on the OLAP Forum on OTN at
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1
6.
The Analytic Workspace Manager team actively monitors this forum.
Be sure to start your posting with "OBIEE Plug-in for AWM".
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The plug-in includes dimension hierarchies in the exported metadata. It uses the
following rules to determine the hierarchies to export.
If the dimension has a default hierarchy, then the plug-in exports that hierarchy.
- If the default hierarchy is a level-based hierarchy, then the plug-in also exports
any other level-based hierarchy that shares the same lowest level as the
default hierarchy.
- If the default hierarchy is a value-based hierarchy, then the plug-in exports
only that value-based hierarchy. The value-based hierarchy appears as a flat
list when you import it into an OBIEE repository.
If the dimension does not have a default hierarchy, then the plug-in exports the
first hierarchy of the dimension.
- If the first hierarchy is a level-based hierarchy, then the plug-in also exports
any other level-based hierarchy that shares the same lowest level as the first
hierarchy.
- If the first hierarchy is a value-based hierarchy, then the plug-in exports only
that value-based hierarchy.
Figure 1 illustrates the movement of analytic workspace metadata from the Oracle
data dictionary to the Common Enterprise Information Model in an OBIEE server.
Figure 1 OBIEE Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager Creates OBIEE Metadata
The plug-in generates a Grand Total logical level under each dimension in the
Business Model and Mapping layer of an OBIEE repository. Under the logical level are
logical columns for the attributes that apply to the dimension. In Analytic Workspace
Manager, these attributes are mapped to different source columns for different levels
of a hierarchy. For example, the Standard hierarchy of the Product dimension has six
levels. For each level, the long description attribute of the dimension is mapped to a
different column in the PRODUCTS relational table. The plug-in provides these Grand
Total folders so that the model with attributes can pass the OBIEE consistency check.
OBIEE Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager also generates a data filter for each
cube. OBIEE uses this data filter to force joins between dimension views and cube
views, even when the dimension is not part of the query. This is necessary to generate
optimal SQL for querying the cube.
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The methodology used to generate the OBIEE metadata is described in the technical
white paper Using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition with the OLAP Option to
the Oracle Database 11g. You can download this paper from OTN at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/olap/Oracle_OLAP_11
Which can be used in scenario where there are large data loads of a sensitive nature into a data
warehouse?
A.
Direct path loading
B.
External tables for loading flat files
C.
Partition exchange loading
D.
Any of these are valid for certain situations.
Explanation:
Instead of filling a bind array buffer and passing it to the Oracle database with a
SQL INSERT statement, a direct path load uses the direct path API to pass the data to be loaded
to the load engine in the server. The load engine builds a column array structure from the data
passed to it.
The direct path load engine uses the column array structure to format Oracle data blocks and build
index keys. The newly formatted database blocks are written directly to the database (multiple
blocks per I/O request using asynchronous writes if the host platform supports asynchronous I/O).
Internally, multiple buffers are used for the formatted blocks. While one buffer is being filled, one or
more buffers are being written if asynchronous I/O is available on the host platform. Overlapping
computation with I/O increases load performance.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/ldr_modes.htm#i1008815
g_BIEE_TWP.pdf.
18. You are creating a configuration for a data warehouse, and your server has 4 CPUs, each of which
can support a sustained rate of throughput of 350 MB / s. You are going to use 1/2 Gbit HBAs which
can support a sustained throughputof 200 MB / s. How many HBAs should you use in the
configuration?
A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 7

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