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Oracle Memory Structures - Exercise

Instance Memory Structures

Objective: Match terms and definitions

Exercise scoring

This exercise is unscored. It is designed to allow you to check your understanding of instance memory structures. When you are done, click the Submit button.

Instructions

In the left column below are several terms, with their corresponding definitions in the right column. Click a term in the left column, and then click the definition in the right column to make a match.
When you have all of the terms and their definitions matched, click the Done button to see whether or not you've matched the terms correctly. Green lines mean the match is correct, red lines mean the match is incorrect. If you didn't get the matches right the first time, click Clear to erase your matches and try again.
When you complete the exercise, click the Submit button to see the correct answers.

Term Matching Exercise

Match items in the left column with the items in the right column.

Instructions

In the left column below are three terms and their corresponding definitions in the right column.
Identify a term in the left column and match the definition on the right column to make a match. When you think you have all of the terms and their definitions matched correctly, click the Submit button and you will see whether or not you have matched the terms correctly. When you have completed the exercise, click the Submit button to see the correct answers.
  1. V$VGA
  2. INIT.ORA
  3. Shared Pool
  4. log buffer
  5. data buffer cache
  6. ARCH_IO_SLAVES
  1. Used to provide information about the instance
  2. Contains blocks read from datafiles
  3. Contains information to be writing to the redo logs
  4. Used to configure instance parameters
  5. A parameter related to the Large Pool
  6. Contains data dictionary information