Welcome to Database Creation and Architecture. This course is the first of five courses in the Oracle Database Administration Certification Series.
Taken together, these five courses teach you how to create and manage an Oracle database.

The first part of this series focuses on architecture, database creation, and the basics of interacting with an Oracle database. After you complete this course, you will be able to:

1. Create a new database
2. Find the files in a database, and identify their purpose
3. Identify the processes that operate on a database
4. Understand the significant memory structures of a database instance
5. Start up and shut down a database

This course, taken in conjunction with the next four courses in the Oracle8 Database Administration Certification Series, will prepare you for the following Oracle certification exam:

1. IZ0-013, Oracle8: Database Administration
   

This database administration exam is one of five that you must pass in order to earn certification as an Oracle8 database administrator.