Oracle Session Monitor – Platform Admin and Configuration Ed 1 — Lesson 3: Data retention, storage management, backups, restores, high availability, capacity, performance settings, scheduled tasks, and maintenance windows

Learning Objectives

• Identify the configuration and data choices that shape Data retention, storage management, backups, restores, high availability, capacity, performance settings, scheduled tasks, and maintenance windows.
• Run normal and boundary tests and record the outcome in capacity forecast and successful recovery test.
• Separate root cause from symptom when investigating retention settings exhausting storage before the next maintenance window.

Detailed Topics

• Data retention
• Storage management
• Backups
• Restores
• High availability
• Capacity
• Performance settings
• Scheduled tasks
• And maintenance windows
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for Data retention, storage management, backups, restores, high availability, capacity, performance settings, scheduled tasks, and maintenance windows
• Relevant access, data, integration, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The demonstration traces Data retention, storage management, backups, restores, high availability, capacity, performance settings, scheduled tasks, and maintenance windows from requirement through execution and review. Learners see where evidence should be collected, how capacity forecast and successful recovery test supports verification, and which warning signs demand investigation.

Hands-On Exercise

Build or execute Data retention, storage management, backups, restores, high availability, capacity, performance settings, scheduled tasks, and maintenance windows for a defined business case. Introduce the condition “retention settings exhausting storage before the next maintenance window,” inspect the resulting evidence, correct the cause without discarding the audit trail, and document the final state in capacity forecast and successful recovery test.

1. Confirm scope, access, sample records, and acceptance criteria.
2. Perform the configuration or transaction using a controlled sequence.
3. Inspect outputs and downstream effects rather than relying on screen messages alone.
4. Close with a support note, preventive action, and reproducible validation step.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the business trigger, affected roles, required records, and acceptable result for Data retention, storage management, backups, restores, high availability, capacity, performance settings, scheduled tasks, and maintenance windows.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how capacity forecast and successful recovery test should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Diagnose Data retention, storage management, backups, restores, high availability, capacity, performance settings, scheduled tasks, and maintenance windows by checking effective settings, ownership, source records, dependencies, and recent releases. Use capacity forecast and successful recovery test to locate the earliest divergence. Treat “retention settings exhausting storage before the next maintenance window” as a hypothesis until the same test passes after correction and still passes for a boundary case.

Validation Checklist

• The stated requirement for Data retention, storage management, backups, restores, high availability, capacity, performance settings, scheduled tasks, and maintenance windows is linked to an owner and an observable acceptance condition.
• Capacity forecast and successful recovery test contains enough detail for another practitioner to repeat the check.
• Normal processing, one boundary condition, and the identified failure path have all been tested.
• Access, data integrity, downstream impact, rollback, and support ownership are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Data retention, storage management, backups, restores, high availability, capacity, performance settings, scheduled tasks, and maintenance windows, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with capacity forecast and successful recovery test.