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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide

By : Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura
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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide

By: Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura

Overview of this book

IBM Db2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that helps you store, analyze, and retrieve data efficiently. This comprehensive book is designed to help you master all aspects of IBM Db2 database administration and prepare you to take and pass IBM's Certification Exams C2090-600. Building on years of extensive experience, the authors take you through all areas covered by the test. The book delves deep into each certification topic: Db2 server management, physical design, business rules implementation, activity monitoring, utilities, high availability, and security. IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide provides you with more than 150 practice questions and answers, simulating real certification examination questions. Each chapter includes an extensive set of practice questions along with carefully explained answers. This book will not just prepare you for the C2090-600 exam but also help you troubleshoot day-to-day database administration challenges.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Practice questions

Question 1: How do you activate database objects monitoring elements such as object_data_l_reads and object_data_p_reads?

  1. UPDATE DBM CFG DFT_MON_TABLE to ON
  2. UPDATE DB CFG USING MON_OBJ_METRICS BASE
  3. UPDATE MONITOR SWITCHES USING TABLE ON
  4. UPDATE DBM CFG USING HEALTH_MON ON

Question 2: Which of the following are column-organized monitoring elements? (Choose two)

  1. POOL_COL_L_READS
  2. POOL_DATA_L_READS
  3. POOL_DATA_P_READS
  4. POOL_COL_P_READS
  5. POOL_DATA_WRITES

Question 3: Which statement will modify the current explain mode special register so that explain can capture without actually running the SQL statement?

  1. SET CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE YES
  2. SET CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE NO
  3. SET CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE EXPLAIN
  4. SET CURRENT EXPLAIN REOPT

Question 4: Which statement is FALSE about the Db2 problem determination tool (db2pd)?

  1. The db2pd tool can obtain quick and immediate information...