RAC course

Hi,
I am new to RAC. I am planning to attend a course. I am in doubt which course i should go for. In oracle site I found 2 courses
Oracle Database 11g: RAC Administration Release 2/Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g: Manage Clusterware and ASM Release 2
and
Oracle Database 11g: RAC Administration
please let me know which one is good for entry level of RAC Administration.
Regards,
SVA
Edited by: sva on Aug 2, 2012 9:35 AM

sva wrote:
Hi,
I am new to RAC. I am planning to attend a course. I am in doubt which course i should go for. In oracle site I found 2 courses
Oracle Database 11g: RAC Administration Release 2/Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g: Manage Clusterware and ASM Release 2
and
Oracle Database 11g: RAC Administration
please let me know which one is good for entry level of RAC Administration.
The course pattern is changed from 11.2 release. Previously, there was a single course of RAC Administration for 5 days which covered RAC. Now, with 112, there is a new concept of Grid Infrastructure and changes in ASM which are very prominent and can't be missed hence there is a new course of Manage Clusterware and ASM for 4 days. If you have the idea of these concepts than you can go and attend the 3 day, 11.2 RAC Administration course. If you have no idea about either of the things, its better you attend a completely different course than these two, the accelerated course . Here are the details of it,
http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=609&p_org_id=1080544&lang=US&get_params=dc:D77644GC30,p_preview:N
This is a 5 day course which covers both the topics of RAC and Grid Infrastructure and ASM.
HTH
Aman....

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