Mallikarjun Ramadurg Mallik034

Oracle Interview Questions:

Company: Oracle Ind Pvt ltd
Interview Type: ZOOM meeting
Date: 25-Jun-2020
Interview Time: 2 hours

1. Explain me about your day today activities and which area you have more
expertise?

2. Exadata - Using imageinfo output how you tell whether it is CELL node or DB
node?
--- What is the unique difference in the out of imageinfo from DB node and CELL
node?

3. Exadata - How the CELL node and compute node communicate each other?
4. DB node is not able to communicate with each other how you check or
troubleshoot?

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5. Please let me know any issues come across the clusterware like any cluster
services are not coming up? Or any other issue
6. Cluster service are not coming up how you will troubleshoot?

7. Explain me clusterware startup sequence?

8. OHASD is not coming up what you will check?

9. How you can start OHASD manually?

10. Cluster service runs on which run level?

11. OLR is not coming up what might be the cause?

12. CSSD to start what it will look for or what it will look for?

13. CSSD will start before ASM then how CSSD will read vitedisks which are inside
diskgroup?

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14. ASM is online and none of the DB coming up what could be the issue?

15. CRSD to start what it will look for?

16. OCR is corrupted? How you will restore?

17. To restore OCR do you need entire cluster downtime or it can be done on
individual nodes?

18. How to start CRS in exclusive mode?

19. What are socket files? And where you can find socket files?
--- What is the use of socket files?

20. What is the difference in GRID rolling and non-rolling patching?

21. What is prepatch and post patch will do?

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22. When you are running post patch it is complaining that post patch is not ran,
what you will do?

23. After patching last node is it saying patch level is mismatch even though same
patches are applied on all nodes. What will do?

24. Exadata – One of the CELL disk if faulty and dropped. What will you check
immediately at ASM level?

25. Can you suggest to replace the dropped/faulty DISK during Rebalance is
running?

26. High redundancy how many voting disks you can see? In quarter RACK how
many voting DISKS you can see and where all you can see the voting DISKS?

27. In quarter RACK high redundancy, one disks is dropped what is the impact?

28. What does mean ASM mode status and ASM mode status outcome?

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29. CELL server kernel panic and unable to come online how you will troubleshoot?
How to boot it?

30. Do you take OS backup for CELL server and why?

31. Do we take OS backup for DB nodes and why?

32. DB node kernel panic and how to reboot it?

33. How we boot the server using diag.iso?

34. What are the service running CELL server and how you restart them?
--- What is the use of these services?

35. Cell services are not staring which logs to check?

36. What is smart scan?

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37. Customer complaining smart scan is not happening and how you check whether
smart scan is happening or not?

38. Explain the connection details from client to database how it happens?

39. How SCAN knows which cluster node has least load?

40. How you check port is opened or used or not?

41. What you check in netstat output?

42. 5 standalone DBs are running on server due to some power issue server
rebooted and later you will be able to start only 4 DBs and while starting 5 th DB it is
saying Out of memory issue? How you will troubleshoot?

43. 5 Standalone DBs are running and how you will check how much shared
memory used at OS level?

44. One cluster node is rebooted due to some issue?

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--- Which logs you will check?

45. What does means by load average?

46. How to check how many processes are waiting?

47. What does mean by disk_repair_time?

48. One Standalone DB has SGA 10GB and one select query returning 50GB output.
--- Will the user get output or not and how?

49. One standalone DB is up and running and somebody have deleted the pfile,
spfile, alert log file and you don’t have backups too.
--- You have shutdown the DB and how you will start the DB now?
--- How to you will recover the pfile or spfile? And how you will get the all the
parameters which are set?

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