1. How do you find out from the RMAN catalog if a particular archive log has been backed-up?
2. How can you tell how much space is left on a given file system and how much space each of the file
system’s subdirectories take-up?
3. How do you tell what your machine name is and what is its IP address?
4. How would you go about verifying the network name that the local_listener is currently using?
5. What view do you use to associate a user’s SQLPLUS session with his o/s process?
6. In which dictionary table or view would you look to determine at which time a snapshot or MVIEW
last successfully refreshed?
7. How would you begin to troubleshoot an ORA-3113 error?
8. Which dictionary tables and/or views would you look at to diagnose a locking issue?
9. What query tells you how much space a tablespace named “test” is taking up, and how much space is
remaining?
10. Database is hung. Old and new user connections alike hang on impact. What do you do? Your SYS
SQLPLUS session is able to connect.
11. Database crashes. Corruption is found scattered among the file system neither of your doing nor of
Oracle’s. What database recovery options are available? Database is in archive log mode.
12. Explain how you would restore a database using RMAN to Point in Time?
13. How does Oracle guarantee data integrity of data changes?
14. Which environment variables are absolutely critical in order to run the OUI?
15. What SQL query from v$session can you run to show how many sessions are logged in as a particular
user account?
16. What is hotbackup?
17. which views is used to finding the locking in the database?
18. What is difference between the hotbackup taken through RMAN and Manual?
19. What is library cache lock?
20. How do you recover the database if you lost one of the controlfile in the database?
21. How do you recover the database if you lost all of the controlfile in the database?
22. What is flashback database?
23. What is High Water Mark in Oracle?
24. What parameters are used to set parallelism in the database?
25. What view would you use to determine free space in a tablespace?
26. How do you switch from an init.ora file to a spfile?
27. How to kill the database session?
28. How to check Oracle database version?
29. What is Shell Script?
30. What are different type of shell available?
31. How will you find which operating system your system is running on in UNIX?
32. How do you find which processes are using a particular file?
33. What is the use of “$?” sign in shell script ?
34. How to make a shell script executable ?
35. How to put comments in your shell script ?
36. How do you find which process is taking how much CPU?
37. How to find the last 10 lines of the files?
38. How do you find the IP address of the Unix machine or if the IP address is given ,the name
of the machine
39. How do you check if a particular process is listening on a particular port on remote host?
40. How to list the files in the directory?
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41. How to find the filesystem size,user space, free space?
42. How to search for the file in Unix operating system?
43. What is nohup in UNIX.
44. What is tnsping?
45. What is a table Cluster ?
46. What is Save Points in Oracle database?
47. How do you find current date and time in oracle?
48. How does a Query executes in Oracle? Can you list steps involved?
49. Difference between varchar and varchar2 data types?
