This blog post gives a walkthrough of the Step-By-Step Activity Guides of the Oracle Cloud Database Services Specialist Certification training program that you must perform to learn the course.
This post covers Hands-On Activity Guides that you must perform in order to learn Oracle Cloud Database and clear the 1Z0-1093 certification exam.
Here is the list of our activity guides:
Lab 01: Step by Step Guide to register for Oracle Cloud Trial Account
Lab 02: Create & Access VM DB System In OCI
Lab 03: Create VCN, Subnet, Security List Gateways (IGW, SGW & DRG) & Route Table
Lab 04: Configure Network For Exadata DB System
Lab 05: Generate SSH Keys in Oracle Cloud
Lab 06: Troubleshooting Compute & Database Instance Connectivity Issue
Lab 07: Create & Access Autonomous Serverless & Dedicated Database In OCI
Lab 08: Create & Access Exadata DB System In OCI
Lab 09: Administration Database (Start, Stop, Terminate, Cloning, Scale, Manage)
Lab 10: Patching VM/BM DB System & Database On OCI
Lab 11: Patching Exadata DB System
Lab 12: Backup & Restore VM/BM & Autonomous DB System
Lab 13: Backup & Restore Exadata DB System
Lab 14: Create MySQL DB System on Oracle Cloud
Lab 15: Connect & Manage MySQL DB System on Oracle Cloud
Lab 16: Install & Configure Management Agents
Lab 17: Register External Databases
1. Activity Guide: Step-By-Step Guide to Register for Oracle Cloud Trial Account
The first thing you must do is to get a trial account for Oracle Cloud (You get 300 USD FREE credit from Oracle to practice, that must be used within 30 days).
You should know how to Register for the Oracle Cloud, Get FREE 300 USD Credit to Practice, generate SSH Keys to connect to Linux Servers on Cloud, and Shop Compute (IaaS) for Application Tier & DBCS (PaaS) for Database Tier.
Once you register for Oracle Cloud Trial, you should get an Email Like the below from Oracle:
Note: Get the FREE Copy of Step-By-Step Guide to Register for Oracle Cloud Trial Account in your inbox, by clicking here https://k21academy.com/cloud01
2. Activity Guide: Create Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), Subnets, Security List, Gateway & Route Table For VM/BM & ExaCS
Networking has a big role in Cloud databases for example to make a connection between on-premise and cloud databases and to store database backup to object storage networking is required.
To know more about Networking, I would highly recommend you to check my previous post on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): Networking https://k21academy.com/oci18
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3. Activity Guide: How To Generate SSH Keys
Oracle Cloud Services are built on the top of OCI, You will need an SSH key pair to access the Linux/Database or Exadata instances. An SSH key pair comprises a Private key and a Public key. You keep the private key on your personal computer and provide the Public key every time you launch an Instance.
Note: To know about how to create an ssh key check here https://k21academy.com/oci51
4. Activity Guide: Create & Access User-Managed Database
The Database service offers autonomous and user-managed Oracle Database solutions.
The next step you should know about is User-managed solutions that are Bare metal, Virtual machine, and Exadata DB systems that you can customize with the resources and settings that meet your needs.
This Activity Guide helps you in creating a Database in OCI & accessing it via putty
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5. Activity Guide: Create & Access Autonomous Database
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Autonomous Database Service is a fully managed, pre-configured database environment. You do not need to configure or manage any hardware or install any software. After provisioning, you can scale the number of CPU cores or the storage capacity of the database at any time without impacting availability or performance.
This Activity Guide helps you in creating and accessing an autonomous database via SQL Developer.
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6. Activity Guide: Create & Access Exadata DB System in OCI
An Exadata DB system consists of a quarter rack, half rack, or full rack of compute nodes and storage servers, with a high-speed, low-latency Band network.
In this Activity Guide, You will provision the Exadata DB System in OCI
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7. Activity Guide: Administration Database (Start, Stop, Terminate, Cloning, Scale, Manage)
Then we learn how to Manage Databases on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which includes Start /Stop Database, Scale Up & Scale Down database, and will also see how will you manage the database from DBCLI a command-line utility.
8. Activity Guide: Patching VM/BM DB System & Database On OCI
A patch is applied to the database to update, fix, or improve it. This includes fixing security bugs, patches usually being called bugfixes or bug fixes, and improving the functionality, usability, or performance.
In this activity guide, you will be performing one of the common tasks for DBA’s, which is patching from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console and the command-line interface.
9. Activity Guide: Patching (Exadata Cloud Tooling, Grid, DB System, Operating System) in ExaCS
In this Activity Guide, you will apply a patch to Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service, and roll back the patch as necessary.
10. Lab Activity Guide: Backup & Restore VM/BM & Autonomous DB System
Database backup is the process of backing up the stored data of the database. It enables the creation of a duplicate instance or copy of a database in case the primary database crashes, is corrupted, or is lost.
In this guide we will cover how you can Backup & Restore Database that is On Cloud to Cloud Object Storage, Creating an On-Demand Backup of the Database, and Restoring from the Backup.
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11. Activity Guide: Backup & Restore Exadata DB System
In this Activity Guide, You will see how you can Backup & Restore the Database On Exadata Cloud Service, Restoring Database Using RMAN Utility & DBCS Console.
12. Activity Guide: Create & Connect MySQL DB System on Oracle Cloud
The NEW MySQL Database Service (MDS) is the only database service that is 100% developed, managed, and supported by the MySQL team. MySQL Database Service is a fully managed service, running on Oracle Gen 2 Cloud Infrastructure. It enables you to:
- Instantly provision MySQL instances and connect to a production-ready, pre-configured MySQL database.
- Automate database-specific tasks such as configuration, security patching, backup, and monitoring.
- Choose from multiple compute shapes, depending on your application and capacity requirements.
- Provision fast, reliable, and secure cloud storage for all enterprise workloads.
- Free up time of developers, DBAs, and DevOps to focus on value-added tasks that are core to your business
13. Activity Guide: Managing Services For NoSQL Database
NoSQL databases have become increasingly popular and are now seen as one of the necessary tools in the toolbox that every application developer must have at their disposal. While tried and true relational databases are great at solving classic application problems like data normalization, strictly consistent data, and arbitrarily complex queries to access that data, NoSQL databases take a different approach.
In this lab, you will get started with tables in Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service.
14. Activity Guide: Install & Configure Management Agents
To manage an external database using OCI’s External Database service, you create an OCI resource known as a “handle” that represents the external database within your tenancy.
➢ After creating a handle for your database, you create a second resource called a database connection.
➢ The connection stores the information required for your OCI tenancy to connect to the external database.
➢ This is facilitated by the Management Agent Cloud Service agent
➢ After creating the connection resource and connecting the OCI handle to your external database instance, you can enable the Database Management service to monitor the health and performance of your database.
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15. Activity Guide: Register External Databases
You can manage and monitor Oracle Databases that are located outside of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using OCI’s External Database service. External Database allows you to use cloud-based tools such as Database Management with your external databases. External Database can be used with both single-instance Oracle Databases and Oracle RAC instances.
In this lab you will learn how to:
- Manually register the Container Databases (CDBs) and Pluggable Databases (PDBs) with External Database Service.
- Register the Container Databases (CDBs) and Pluggable Databases (PDBs) with External Database Service using Terraform and Resource Manager.
- After registering databases enable Database Management service.
Related/References
- Oracle Cloud Database Deployment Options
- Migrating Databases to the Cloud
- Oracle Cloud Database Services Specialist 2021 Certification[1Z0-1093-21]
What’s Next For You?
If you want to upgrade your career from an Oracle DBA to Oracle Cloud DBA, and want to clear Oracle Cloud Database Migration and Integration Specialist 2021 then register for our FREE class and don’t miss an opportunity to gain a plethora of insights on becoming a certified Oracle Cloud DBA.
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