40364 Database Administration Fundamentals

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in administering relational databases through installation, configuration, storage, security, backup, recovery, monitoring, performance, and maintenance fundamentals. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Explain relational concepts, database engines, instances, databases, schemas, files, tables, indexes, transactions, and services
• Plan installation, prerequisites, editions, configuration, service accounts, connectivity, naming, patching, and documentation
• Create and manage databases, files, filegroups, tables, indexes, statistics, storage growth, and capacity controls
• Configure logins, users, roles, permissions, authentication, encryption, auditing, least privilege, and separation of duties
• Select full, differential, log, copy-only, and maintenance backup strategies based on recovery objectives
• Perform restore sequences, point-in-time recovery, validation, corruption checks, recovery testing, and documentation
• Monitor availability, waits, blocking, locks, logs, jobs, storage, queries, resource usage, alerts, and service health
• Apply index and statistics maintenance, integrity checks, automation, troubleshooting, escalation, and improvement planning

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.