You plan to migrate an existing production database supporting online transaction processing
(OLTP) workloads to the Exadata Database Machine. The database currently supports an
application requiring fast response times, which satisfies stringent requirements, and most of the
application queries use index access to the tables in the application schema.
For which case would you consider dropping indexes to allow Smart Scans to occur?
A.
Drop non-constraint indexes if Smart Scan occurs instead of an index access path on the
corresponding table.
B.
Drop non-constraint indexesif Smart Scan performs better than index unique scans on the
corresponding table.
C.
Drop non-constraint indexes if Smart Scan performs better than index range scans on the
corresponding table.
D.
Drop non-constraint Indexes if Smart Scan performs better than any index scans on the
corresponding table.
A is wrong. fast full index scan is smart scan and no need to drop non-constraint indexes
B is wrong. index unique scan is a unique constraint index, you can not drop that index
C is right. index range scan is a non-unique index and can be dropped to allow full table scan which is smart scan
D is wrong. any index scans include fast full index scan, which is smart scan. so you should not drop that index.
So C is the correct
D is the right answer