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Chapter 1
Using Oracle ASM
Review Questions
1. What are three benefits of using ASM? (Choose three.)
A. Ease of disk administration and maintenance
B. Load balancing across physical disks
C. Software RAID-1 data redundancy with double or triple mirrors
D. Automatic recovery of failed disks
2. What components are present in an ASM instance? (Choose three.)
A. SGA
B. Database processes
C. Database datafiles
D. Control files
E. Database parameter file or spfile
3. Which of the following is a benefit of ASM fast disk resync?
A. Failed disks are taken offline immediately but are not dropped.
B. Disk data is never lost.
C. By default, the failed disk is not dropped from the disk group ever, protecting you from
loss of that disk.
D. The failed disk is automatically reformatted and then resynchronized to speed up the
recovery process.
E. Hot spare disks are automatically configured and added to the disk group.
4. What is the result of increasing the value of the parameter ASM_POWER_LIMIT during a
rebalance operation?
A. The ASM rebalance operation will likely consume fewer resources and complete in a
shorter amount of time.
B. The ASM rebalance operation will consume fewer resources and complete in a longer
amount of time.
C. The ASM rebalance operation will be parallelized and should complete in a shorter
amount of time.
D. There is no ASM_POWER_LIMIT setting used in ASM.
E. None of the above.
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