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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

Which command can you use to enable dual logging for a database named SAMPLE?

  • A: db2set DB2_USE_FAST_LOG_PREALLOCATION=YES
  • B: UPDATE DB CFG FOR sample USING failarchpath /ds/failarchlogs
  • C: UPDATE DB CFG FOR sample USING mirrorlogpath /ds/mirrorlogs
  • D: UPDATE DB CFG FOR sample USING logarchmeth2 TSM

Question 2

What type of recovery operation do you use to reapply transactions that were committed but not externalized to storage, to roll back transactions that were externalized to storage but not committed, and to purge transactions from memory that were neither committed nor externalized to storage?

  • A: Disaster recovery
  • B: Crash recovery
  • C: Version recovery
  • D: Roll-forward recovery

Question 3

Which command will restore a database by using information found in the recovery history log file?

  • A: RESTART DATABASE
  • B: RESTORE DATABASE
  • C: RECOVER DATABASE...