Specific tips for the exam 1Z0-0032:-

Although you are not expected to understand how to configure and make use of advanced Oracle Net features, you should be able to explain their function in an Oracle Net design. Such topics include the Oracle Internet Directory (OID, Oracle’s LDAP-compliant directory service), Oracle Names, Oracle Connection Manager, Oracle Advanced Security, the Oracle Net Application Proxy Kit, and Oracle Heterogeneous Services.

 
Do you understand the OSI model and how various Oracle Net software layers with different types of connections fit into this model? Expect several questions about this subject.

You must understand how to configure the two basic naming methods (name resolution methods) for Oracle Net: host naming and local naming.

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In the architecture section of the exam, expect questions that test your knowledge of very specific details about the Oracle software architecture. Specifically, you should be intimately familiar with what functions each Oracle background process performs; make sure that you know details such as what SMON does, what events cause DBWn to write dirty buffers to data files, what events cause LGWR to write the log buffer to the current online log group, which background processes perform I/O, and so on.

Understand that when a user establishes a dedicated server connection, Oracle allocates all portions of the corresponding PGA outside the shared pool. However, when a user establishes a multithreaded server (MTS) connection,Oracle allocates memory for the session’s cursor state and sort area, collectively known as the User Global Area (UGA) from the shared pool. Therefore, when you configure an Oracle instance with MTS, it is important to consider how much memory MTS sessions can allocate from the shared pool.

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