Oracle DBA Interview Questions - HP

by Admin on December 04, 2017

1. Tell about your current profile
2. Can you tell me installation steps
3. What is kernal parameter
4. What is security limits?
5. Why we need to assign security limits?
6. How to install 10g oracle using silent mode?
7. what is checkpoint?
8. what is diff bt exp/imp and expdp/impdp?
9. Tell me backup strategies?
10. RMAN cloning?
11. DataGuard configuration?
12. Why we need to give FAL_client and FAL_SERVER?
13. How to down RAC instances?
14. Scenerio: Archive mount point reached limit then wt happened in your db? and what will you do?
15. Scenerio: How to recover datafile? and how to identify currupted datafile?

1st manager round

1. Hai how are you ?

2. tell about yourself ?

3. what is your current company ?

4. where it is located ?

5. who is your client?

6. where they located?

7. what kind of company is yours? is it product based or service based?

8. how will you intract with your client ?

9. what kind of tool do you use?

10. how will you get your alert?

11. i have two issues eg: level 0 is critical issue and level 1 is performance issue ? among these two
which issue you troubleshoot first ?

12. where will be your taken backup stored in tape ora disk ?

13. while some issues occurs in prod level which you have'nt faced yet will you go for any reference
help or you ll do by your own?

14. from whom you ll get your alerts you said you ll get alerts through your official mail ?

15. what your previous client do? what is their job nature ?

16. who is your current cient? what they do ? what you do for them ?

17. are you into rac environment ?

Second round Technical discussion through telephonic ?

1. tell about your day to activities ?

2. what server you have in your environment?

3. how many servers do you have ?

4. how many db you are handling ?

5. how about database total size ?

6. mention no of database you handle in production?

and mention database name which you handle?

7. how will you moniter your server and database?

8. what happen if performance issue arise? explain what steps do you follow in your environment?
9. you said you ll take awr report frequently ? what can you find in that report ?

10. how will you take statspack and ash report?

11. have you done cold backup? if did tell how ? why we say cold backup is consistent ?

12. why we use cloining what kind cloning you did in your environment ?

13. what is logical and physical?

14. is sequence and sysnonyms are objects?

15. what is patching?

16. how many times you applied patching ?

17. what kind of patching did you applied ?

18. how to find how many patches applied in oracle?

19. diff between upgarde and patching?

20. what version do you use in your current project? i mean oracle database version ?

21. if both 10g and 11g explain about upgarde prerequesties ?

22. explain about upgarding steps?

23. your exp shows me that you are in dataguard server?

24. how will you configure physical standby? need step by step process?

25. what is your backup strategies?

26. you said servermanged backup is one your backup startegies?here how will take full
backup?how u take level 1 backup?

27. how will you check whether taken backup jobs in sql prompt ?

28. how will you recover particular datafile using rman?

29. u said exp and datapump is kind of bakcup you take can tell diff between exp and datapump? is
it kind of utility? then what kind of utility?

30. if u use export backup how it ll take? and if datapump how it ll take its backup internally ?

31. what is dataguard ?

32. prerequesties to configure dataguard?

33. diff between physical standby and logical standby?

34. what kind bg process in primary database after you configure physical standby?

35. how will you check your what kind of mode u have in your physical standby database?

36. you said while configuring you ll mention standby management auto may i know why do u
mention that in pfile? what's the

37. how will check logfile sequence is in order or not? i need you to mention view?

38. do you know about rac?

39. what kind of background process are there?

40. what are all the services is in rac

41. how can you down your rac instance and enable your rac instance ?

42. how will you find which rac node is master instance ? eg if you configured 4 instance in rac how
to know which node is master node?

43. what are all the new features in rac tell about their advantanges?

in which level of support u r into?

44. will you work with us in rotational shifts?

45. i done with my interview do you have any questions?

HR face to face

1. tell about your self?

2. why you r switching from your current company?

3. what should i hire u ?

4. where your company located ?

5. prefferd location ?

6. what is your expected ctc?

7. we cannot offer you that much ?

8. is it negotiable?

9. i done with mine do u have any questions to ask?

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Tech round:

1. Roles and Responsibilities

2. Daily Activites,Weekly activites,monthly activities,yearly activities

3. Archive log destination gonna full in 10 minutes??What will you do as DBA?

4. what will you do if you get a critical cases?

5. Ticketing Tool

6. Did you go office yesterday..What are all the issues did you get?What did you do for that??

7. What you do want to be in future?

8. why do we need to do schema refresh??Steps?

9. DB HANGS..User complaining ?As a DBA what will be your first action?

10. Do you have idea on profile?What does it mean?

11. In datgauard,were are the servers located?

12. Did you solve any problems in dataguard?Explain?

13. How frequent do you use to check alert log and dataguard sync??

14. what kind of emails do you get?

15. When you rebuild the index?

16. advanctages and disadvantages of index??

17. A select query retrives data from 2 partitions?does the performance good or bad?

18. What are all the information available in execution plan???

19. What do you see in the AWR report?

20. what is active and passive in dataguard??

21. did you work on any issues in production database so far?

22. How can you rate yourself in DBA field?

23. How the Sqlserver user can access the data from oracle database user?

24. What is the use of directory in oracle???

25. Everyday in our db 10 t0 15 gb archives gets genereated.One fine day 80GB archive logs got
genereated..What will you do?

Manager Round:

1. Performance parameters in datapump and exp and imp

2. Patching steps..How many times did you do patching and upgrading?

3. Dataguard configuration steps

4. What is ora-0155?what will you do if you get this error?In oracle 10g as well as in oracle 91 or
below versions?

5. What kind of backup do u take in exp/imp or datapump??COmmands?

6. Roles and responsibilites

7. whatis the advantages of dataguard over RAC?

8. how many databasesyour handling?

Oracle DBA Interview Questions -

VIRTUSA
by Admin on December 02, 2017
1. What is rlbc ?

2. What is checkpoint ?

3. What is archivelog ?

4. What will you do if Entire database is slow?

5. What is the solution if Some users are encounter slow in production db?

6. Upgrade steps ?

7. What are types of patches?

8. What is cpu patch and psu patch?

9. What is rman backup?

10. What is dataguard? And metion types of

11. Parameters of export import ?

12. Mention performance parameter in export import?

13. Is it possible to take rman backup of 200 gb in 1 hr duration as client requested you to take
backup for urgency purpose ?

14. Why we use rac ?

15. What is advantages of rac?

16. What are all the services in rac ?

Oracle DBA Interview Questions - CSS

CORP
by Admin on December 01, 2017
1st Round

1. Tell About YourSelf?

2. Day TO Day Activities?

3. which area your are strong?

4. what is dataguard?

5. What all are the background Process in Dg?

6. Different Types of modes explain in brief?

7. what is dataloss?

8. which is default protection mode?

9. what are the types of standby database available in 11g?

10.what are the steps to follow if there is any archive gap?

11. How to find sequence# sync or not?

12. what happen if archivelog not configured,No backup how to rectify your database?

13. Instance recovery breif explain?

14. What is root.sh?what its use?

15. What is orainstroot.sh?what its use?

16. What is addm & awr?

17. What happen if database is getting slow?

18. what are top 5 wait events?

19. what is db scatter reads and db sequential reads?

20. what is explain plan?

21. what is addm in details?

22. what is soft parsing and hard parsing?

2nd Round Manager

1. Tell about Yourself?

2. Day to day activity?

Then discussed about doj and salary etc,,,