Oracle application dba R12 interview quations

Question 1: What is Online Patching?
Answer:
Online patching is a new patching mechanism that is available with R12.2 that allows the application of patches while the system is up and running, and the users are working as normal.

Question 2: Which Oracle E-Business Suite releases Online Patching feature is available?
Answer Online patching is used with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 and higher.
Question 3: What types of patch are applied online?
Answer: All Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 patches are applied online. This includes one-off patches, patch rollups, consolidated updates and security patches.

Question 4:What is the Online Patching cycle?
Answer: The online patching cycle is a sequence of inter-related steps (phases) used to apply patches to an Oracle E-Business Suite system.

Question 5:What tool is used to apply online patches?
Answer: The AD Online Patching (adop) command-line utility is used to manage the Online Patching cycle.adop invokes adpatch is the background only