Monday 5 September 2016

How to Crack DBA Interviews


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People always think that Preparing for Oracle Certification and being an Oracle Certified can get you a Job. But the real thing is you will knowledge by Hands-on Experience.

First thing, understand the real issues one would encounter while ACTUALLY doing the work. For example, upgrading from Oracle 10g to 11g. Pre-checks for Patching OR pre-requisites for a Switchover in Data-guard, like these.
People don’t care much how many certifications you have. They want to know that you’ve had enough hands on.

Second thing is 80% of the DBA interviews are performance tuning questions. So at least, be well prepared of each and every issues a DBA can face in his entire job.
So instead of spending many days & a lot of money on Oracle certifications, set up your own Virtual Box and start practicing on the following topics.

You must focus on the few Oracle topics that are really important for the job.

 

Important Topic for Oracle Interviews 

Obviously you should know about Oracle Architecture.  That forms the basis for everything else..
·         Dataguard
·         RMAN Backups
·         Oracle Golden Gate
·         Real Application Clusters (RAC)
·         Performance Tuning / SQL Tuning


That's all folks, just leave a simple comment below about single, the most challenging thing you face in learning or for becoming an Oracle DBA.

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See Also : 


How to Become a Good DBA

How to prepare for DBA Interview


General Tips for a DBA Interview - Final Preperation



 

4 comments:

  1. Hi, nikhil sir, really nice post. Plz keep it up. I am fresher in oracle and getting training from march and hv pratice on oracle backup,recovery, RMAN nd oracle RAC too. Due to fresher i dont hv any call nd still waiting for single interview call. Plz if u hv any vacany for fresher or 1 years exp plz rreferred me. Thanks in advance.

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  2. Excellent. As you said 80% questions are PT related. Please post an article on how to learn PT. Put the topics inside PT.

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    1. Hi Mahboob Ali,

      I will surely share whatever little I know but it may be delayed due to other official preoccupations.

      Regards
      Nikhil Kotak

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  3. how to get my own virtual box?

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