Things to practice for Oracle test 1Z0-045.

Oracle has designed 1z0-045 (Oracle Database 10g DBA New Features for Oracle8i OCPs) as an upgrade certification test, which helps you to upgrade from an Oracle 8i Certified Professional to an Oracle 10g Certified Professional (OCP). Apart from studying books and taking various practice tests, you should also practice with Oracle 10g software, which will be of great importance from the test point of view.

Before taking this exam, you should practice the following:

1. Install Oracle 10g.
2. Use EM to perform various activities pertaining to a database.
3. Use data pump commands to import and export data.
4. Identify advisor’s recommendations to manage the space within a database.
5. Recognize and manage the server-generated alerts.
6. Automate tasks with scheduler.
7. Define VLDB supports.
8. Perform database backup and recovery with enhanced features.
9. Flashback a database.
10. Perform database security options.
11. Maintain the software.
12. Know about the architecture of Oracle 10g.
13. Know about various administrative tools to manage the database.
14. Configure an Oracle network environment.
15. Work with various database objects.
16. Configure the Oracle shared server.
17. Implement the database security options.
18. Manage undo data.
19. Know the various techniques for database storage.
20. Maintain the database more efficiently.
21. Take a database backup for recovery purposes.
22. Know about the SQL and PL/SQL languages.
23. Configure Recovery Manager.
24. Understand Globalization support.
25. Recover from user errors.
26. Use various Flashback technologies.
27. Manage the database corruption.
28. Use the DBMS_REPAIR package.
29. Understand Automatic Database Management.
30. Use Recovery Manager.
31. Monitor and manage memory.
32. Startup and shutdown an instance.
33. Recover a database.
34. Understand the Flashback database.
35. Manage database resources.
36. Automate tasks with Oracle scheduler.
37. Retrieve information for job execution and its instances.
38. Know about the Database Resource Manager.
39. Use EM recovery wizard to flashback a database.
40. Recover a database after a RESETLOGS operation.