11i Apps DBA:

Part 1
1. What is custom_top ? How will you define it ?
2. What is mean by GATHER_SCHEMA Statics ? What information it contain.
3. What is statics ? What information it gives ?
4. Explain , How to install the oracle Application ?
5. How to change the GUEST password ?
6. What is Shared APPL_TOP
7. When a Patch is applied if it takes 12 hours to complete and mean while we want to apply
small patch. How we will apply it ?
8. What is stage ? how we will create it ?
9. Which table is created and dropped , when patch is applied ?
10. What is J-Initiator ?
11. If a SQL Script takes 3 hours to run completely. How will you reduce it ?
12. What is mean by explain plan ? What information it contains.
13. What is mean by TKPROF ?
14. What are the steps happened when , we start oracle APPS ?

Part 2

1. What are the different types of concurrent manager

2. What is Internal Concurrent Manager ?
3. How to trouble shoot the internal concurrent manager. If the internal manager Shutdown and
other manager runs. How will you resolve this problem.
4. What is mean by Conflict resolution manager ?
5. How we can define customized concurrent manager
6. How we can assign one request to a newly customized concurrent manager.
7. what are the different types of patches ?
8. Explain c , d , g and u drivers
9. One main patch I want to apply without applying a prerequisite patch. How can I apply ?
10. While applying a patch I don’t want to apply a ‘ d ‘ driver How can I apply
11. What are the different types of patch options.
12. While applying a patch one sql script running , how we can run adpatch to complete
13. what is mean by database refresh ( cloning )
14. What are the steps for doing cloning
15. What is hot backup ?
16. Why excessive redologs generated ?
17. Which tabales shows whether data is backup or not
18. Explain the difference between redolog and rollback
19. What is mean by undo segment
20. Explain crash recovery.
21. What is mean by profile ?
22. Where the concurrent logfiles stored

Part 3
1. Are you done Installation of 11i ? What is the procedure to install
2. If we Run Rapidwiz it won’t installation screen so what you do ?
3. While Installing 11.5..9 on which tier first install ?
4. How you start Apache ? Where it located ?
5. If somebody user is reporting you forms are not coming ? what you do ?
6. How to restart the concurrent manager .
7. After installing apps , how many database you got ?
8. where the 8.0.6 located.
9. How you start middle tier ?
10. Which tops are come after your apps installations
11. How did you do database health checkup
12. What is the path udump
13. How you see oracle apps version 11.5.0 and oracle 9i version from tables ?
14. How you register new product in Oracle apps .
15. What actually does adsplicer.
16. Are u applied patches ? What is c driver
17. What are the different types of drivers use ?
18. How will you check whether the patch is already applied or not ?
19. In concurrent manager the status is inactive manager what you do ?
20. While applying patch ? how did you see worker status ?
21. Which option you used to restart the single worker ?
22. If one worker is failed , how you exlude that worker ?
23. Are , you run autoconfig ?
24. What are users required for application installation .
25. If the patch process is aborted , how it knows that previous session is not completed
26. what is the role of conflict resolution manager.
27. If the request takes too long to complete how will you resolve it.
28. where the trace file is generated
29. How to start the concurrent manager from the command line
30. h How to stop the co concurrent manager from the command line.
31. What is configuration files for Apache ?
32. What is the configuration files for Jserver ?
33. what is the use of zone properties ?
34. While using adrelink which driver is used to relink the files ?
35. What is mean by Autoconfig ?
36. How to restore the autoconfig session on application tier.
37. Explain the Rapid Clone ?
38. How will you quit a worker.
39. Where adpatch log file is placed ?
40. How to check the concurrent manager is ruinning or not.
41. what are the background process started , when you start an instance.
42. Explain the use of PMON.
43. Explain the use of Checkpoint.
44. What types of backups you are taking and how ?
45. Where the worker logfiles are stored.
46. Who is the owner of the FND_INSTALL_PROCESS.
47. Can you differentiate APPS, APPLSYS & base product schemas ?
48. Where the web server/ Apache server logfiles are stored ?
49. How you exclude prerequisite for a patch.
50. What error you got while installation ? How will you resovle it .
51. Which patches you have applied ?
52. What happen if patch fails in between , how will you resovle it.
53. how to restart the failed worker ?
54. How to restart the patch session
55. Explain rapid clone ? Explain post clone steps ?
56. Explain about environment file .
57. How to change the apps password
58. How you done database upgradation.
59. Explain features of 10g over oracle 9i ?
60. How to check whether the concurrent manager is up or not at os level
61. Do you perform tuning ? Explain .
62. What happen even after creating index. It takes too long time
63. How to known which oracle products installed ?
64. What is mean by semaphore ?
65. Is multithreading is supported by Unix.
66. How will you check which instance is running .
67. Where the oracle product information is stored ?
68. What is mean by local inventory and global inventory .
69. If one of the file missing , how can database knowns it ? How will recover it
70. How configure the oracle database ?
71. How will you install oracle 8i if root user password is provided ?
72. What information recorded by checkpoint
73. How to generate checkpoint manuallyW
74. when check point occur
75. What is mean by PGA_TARGET
76. What is large pool in architecture.
77. What is mean by pining process
78. What are the new oracle 9i feature.
79. How to change the rollback segment to undo segment.
80. If there are more than one rollback segment. How will you know which rollback segment we
are using.
81. which table is used to check , which rollback segment we are using.
82. If one of the datafile is missing, how it knows ?
83. If the datafile is there, but the data is not same . how the database knows needs recovery.
84. How u check single node & multimode environment ?
85. How will you determine single node & multimode installation when instance is down
86. What information is provided by adutconf.sql script ?
87. How to known the JRE version
88. What is the certified Instance ( licence ) for 11.5.10
89. How will you determine on which port the apache is running
90. While applying patch if it fails because it needs to apply another patch then how will you
apply it.
91. What are the s/w versions required for cloning.
92. What are the preclone steps and what will it do ?
93. What is mean by OraInventory.
94. I have copied all files from source to target. If the database SID is not changed how we
changed it.
95. How you find apps url ?
96. What is the difference between ad_bugs and ad_applied _patches tables ?
97. What is difference between mount and nomount ?
98. How you assign worker for autopatch or any adutilities .
99. From where autopatch gathers patch history information
100. How you find if autopatch is complete successfully or not ?
101. How to check if ICM is running or not
102. What is the use of dbc file ?
Ans :- It provides initial connection to the guest usr .srfapps.dbc. it is a text file which store
all information regarding to connect to a particular db. It allows a user admin, to easily load and
env variables.
 103. How to find the version of forms from the backend.
Ans :- Open the form and go to help menu then we can find the version of form from backend

104. What is the use of cmcclean.sql

Ans :- It will cleanup the concurrent_manager tables(dead process in internal manager log )
105 What are all the configuration files you take before cloning.
106 How you are managing the clusters ?
Ans :- Managing the clusters in the sense we are using the cmview type commands to see the
Status of the clusters.
107 What tables you will update when a request fails.
Ans :- fnd_concurrent_requests and fnd_concurrent_queues.
108. What is the use of appweb.cfg ?
Ans. It is a main configuration file which contain db connection parameters and form server
Load balancing we need to edit appsweb.cfg
This file is available in common_top/htm/bin.
109. What information is available in appsora.env?
Ans:- It contains 8.0.6 home and sid.env paths.
110. What do you mean by sleep time for concurrent manager ?
Ans :- Sleep time means the CM waiting time for the newly submitted requests.
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Part 4

Oracle 9i DBA Questions

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1. Which table contain the names of all data dictionary views ?
2. What is the purpose of the IMPORT option IGNORE ? What it’s default setting ?
3. you are using hot backup without being in archive log mode, can you recover in the event of
a failure ? Why or Why not ?
4. What causes the ‘ snapshot too old ‘ ? how can this be prevented or mitigated ?
5. what is tkprof and how is it used ?
6. What is explain plan and how is it used ?
7. if you see contention for library caches how can you fix it ?
8. How can you tell if a tablespace has excessive fragmentation ?
9. what can cause a high value for recursive call ? How can this be fixed ?
10. Explain an ORA- 01555
11. Explain the difference between $ORACLE_HOME and $ORACLE_BASE.
12. How would you determine what sessions are connected and what resources they
Are waiting for ?

Part 5

11i Apps Developer question:

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1) What is the company all about ?
2) Inbound & Bound Interface of oracle apps.
3) What is API (Standard & Customized)
4) Data flow of any interface
5) Purpose of Placeholder columns in reports
6) Type of Pragma in PL/SQL and their use with example - Autonomous transaction,
Restrict Reference, Init Exception
7) Dynamic SQL - when and why it uses
8) Types of triggers of Reports -
9) Views - how views increase the performance of a Form
10) Materialized view
11) Bulk array - Bulk Collect & Bulk Bind
12) Lexical parameter & Bind Parameter of Report
13) SQL reports
14) Forms trigger category
15) Level of Triggers used in Form - item, block & form level
16) Diff between when_validate_item trigger and key_next_item trigger
17) Shell scripting – type of shell program , how to compile, diff between grep & find
command
18) Pro*C related query - if you have knowledge of that
19) Comfort level working as a team member
20) MD070 & BR100 documentation
21) Types of Canvas