01 — Guided Learning Guide
Use this before memorizing acronyms. Chapter 6 is easiest when learned as one operating story: continuity creates the requirement; technology support chooses/maintains the platform; operations support keeps the stored-data service healthy; governance and metrics prove control.
Nine-lesson route
- Operating spine, business continuity, and guiding principles
- Database vocabulary, change control, and administrator roles
- Architectures, cloud responsibility, ACID / BASE / CAP
- Storage media, environments, and database organization
- Lifecycle processes: archive, purge, CDC, replication, sharding
- Technology evaluation, continuity, backup, and recovery
- Configuration management, instances, and performance
- Test data, migration, tools, and safe implementation
- Governance, metrics, and 24 high-value decision rules
Retrieval rule: after each lesson, close it and explain the deciding distinctions without notes. If you can recognize a term but cannot explain why its nearest distractor is wrong, it remains in review.