QUESTION 47 How many copies of the alert log are stored in the directory specified by the initializa

QUESTION 47
How many copies of the alert log are stored in the directory specified by the initialization parameter
DIAGNOSTIC_DEST?
A. One per database
B. One per instance
C. Two per database
D. Two per instance

E. One per incident directory

Correct Answer: D Section:
(none) Explanation
Explanation/Reference:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10595/monitoring001.htm#i1011629

The alert log is maintained as both an XML-formatted file and a text-formatted file. You can view either
format of the alert log with any text editor or you can use the ADRCI utility to view the XML-formatted
version of the file with the XML tags stripped.
Check the alert log and trace files of an instance periodically to learn whether the background
processes have encountered errors. For example, when the log writer process (LGWR) cannot write to a
member of a log group, an error message indicating the nature of the problem is written to the LGWR trace
file and the alert log. Such an error message means that a media or I/O problem has occurred and should
be corrected immediately.