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1. Understand the new engineered database systems including Exadata, Exalogic, SPARC SuperCluster and Oracle Database Appliance and when to use which.
2. Discuss how the current adoption rate of the platform and how companies are benefiting. 
3. Identify the benefits of management and Exadata enhancements.

1. Understand the basics of Exadata from a beginner's perspective. 
2. Recognize the advantages of using this hardware. 
3. Justify the benefits of Exadata such as saving money and eliminating data center complexity.

1. Understand the basics of Exadata from a beginner's perspective. 
2. Recognize the advantages of using this hardware. 
3. Justify the benefits of Exadata such as saving money and eliminating data center complexity.

  1.  Describe the traditional database I/O and 
       Exadata database I/O.
  2.  Explain the Exadata solutions and building 
       blocks.
  3.  Discuss the benefits for datawarehousing and 

      OLTP

1. Recognize the benefits for Exadata and the types of Exadata database machines.
2. State the steps within the Exadata implementation process. 
3. Identify what Exadata Smart Flash Cache does within the system.

1. Identify the areas within your infrastructure to tweak to ensure an effective and efficient model is in place. 
2. Recognize the typical steps that you can follow while in the process of on-boarding Exadata. 
3. Describe the various services you should pay attention to and choose the best one which is suitable for your organization.

1. Discuss the benefits of consolidation of multiple databases into a single database. 
2. Explain the considerations and architectural design points when performing a migration consolidation. 
3. Identify the methodology for going through the database migration consolidation including the architectural, operational, and performance considerations.

1. Identify the general preparation steps for Exadata and how to assess readiness. 
2. Discuss the possible customer challenges such as slow consolidations/migrations, Exadata slowdown, unauthorized Datamarts, etc. 
3. Recognize how bad behavior can dramatically affect performance.

1. Understand Smart Scan and how it can improve SQL query performance. 
2. Recognize what is required in order to use Smart Scan. 
3. Discuss the limitations of Smart Scan such as what cannot be offloaded, how it can be stalled and what disables it.

1. Define the management and deployment challenges when setting up Exadata. 
2. State the three step process for deploying applications on Exadata and how to validate application performance. 
3. Recognize how to manage and maintain Exadata through performance diagnostics, application SQL tuning, configuration compliance and patch automation.

1. Recall best practices from implementation to everyday care and maintenance with Exadata. 
2. Identify ways in which you can make your implementation easier by learning from the experts that have been through it.