Oracle Database 11g Data Warehousing Essentials
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Oracle Database 11g Data Warehousing Essentials

The Oracle Database 11g Data Warehousing Essentials (1Z0-515) exam is primarily intended for professionals that are skilled in implementing solutions based using the Oracle Database as a data warehouse. The certification covers skills such as: data warehouse fundamentals, parallelism, partitioning, the Result Set Cache, Advanced Compression, using Oracle Data Mining, data integration with ODI and OWB, the Exadata Storage Server and the Sun Oracle Database Machine and best practices for implementing data warehouses. The exam targets the intermediate-level implementation team member. Up-to-date training and field experience are recommended.

Oracle Partners passing this exam will be recognized as OPN Certified Specialists. This certification helps their companies qualify for the Oracle Database 11g Data Warehousing Specialization.

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Exam Number:
 1Z0-515
Duration:
 120 minutes
Associated Certifications:
 Oracle Database 11g Data Warehousing Certified Implementation Specialist

OPN Certified Specialist
Number of
Questions:
 70
Exam Price:
 US $195
Pricing may vary slightly by country or by localized currency. Check Pearson VUE’s website for exact pricing in your country.
Passing
Score:
 78%

Passing score subject to change.
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Additional Information & Resources
Exam Retake Policy
Specialization Guide (PDF) for all launched and planned Specializations
Product Mapping to Specialization (XLS)

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Exam Topics

Overview of Data Warehousing

  • Describe the benefits of a data warehouse
  • Describe the technical characteristics of a data warehouse
  • Describe the Oracle Database structures used primarily by a data warehouse
  • Explain the use of materialized views
  • Implement Database Resource Manager to control resource usage
  • Identify and explain the benefits provided by standard Oracle Database 11g enhancements for a data warehouse

Parallelism

  • Explain how the Oracle optimizer determines the degree of parallelism
  • Configure parallelism
  • Explain how parallelism and partitioning work together

Partitioning

  • Describe types of partitioning
  • Describe the benefits of partitioning
  • Implement partition-wise joins

Result Cache

  • Describe how the SQL Result Cache operates
  • Identify the scenarios which benefit the most from Result Set Caching

OLAP

  • Explain how Oracle OLAP delivers high performance
  • Describe how applications can access data stored in Oracle OLAP cubes.

Advanced Compression

  • Explain the benefits provided by Advanced Compression
  • Explain how Advanced Compression operates
  • Describe how Advanced Compression interacts with other Oracle options and utilities

Data integration

  • Explain Oracle's overall approach to data integration
  • Describe the benefits provided by ODI
  • Differentiate the components of ODI
  • Create integration data flows with ODI
  • Ensure data quality with OWB
  • Explain the concept and use of real-time data integration
  • Describe the architecture of Oracle's data integration solutions

Data mining and analysis

  • Describe the components of Oracle's Data Mining option
  • Describe the analytical functions provided by Oracle Data Mining
  • Identify use cases that can benefit from Oracle Data Mining
  • Identify which Oracle products use Oracle Data Mining

Sizing

  • Properly size all resources to be used in a data warehouse configuration

Exadata

  • Describe the architecture of the Sun Oracle Database Machine
  • Describe configuration options for an Exadata Storage Server
  • Explain the advantages provided by the Exadata Storage Server

Best practices for performance

  • Employ best practices to load incremental data into a data warehouse
  • Employ best practices for using Oracle features to implement high performance data warehouses

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