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The following are Yes/No questions.

• 50 internal users of Oracle Database have been assigned to a dual processor server. Your Oracle license inventory consists of 25 Named User Plus Enterprise Edition Database Licenses and 25 Named User Plus Standard Edition Database Licenses. Are you in compliance?
• You've recently converted from a 4 CPU server SAP application to a 4 CPU PeopleSoft application. 5 accountants and 1 DBA continue to access legacy data from the SAP server. You've deployed 4 CPU's of enterprise edition Oracle database licenses against both servers. Are you in compliance?
• You've deployed 25 users of Oracle Database enterprise edition against a single processor server. Your inventory consists of 15 Named User Single Server Database enterprise edition, 5 Named User Plus Database enterprise edition and 5 Named User Multi Server Database enterprise edition licenses. Are you in compliance?
• An 8 CPU Standard Edition database license is assigned to a server cluster environment consisting of 4, 2 and 2 CPU's, respectively. Are you in compliance?
• A 2 CPU disaster recovery (DR) server for a 2 CPU production server is running an e-commerce application, utilizing Oracle's parallel query. 5 unique users are accessing the DR server and you've applied 5 Named User Plus Standard Edition Database Licenses against it. Are you in compliance?
• You are deploying 200 named user single server enterprise edition licenses against an environment consisting of 2-12 CPU servers. Realizing you have a license shortfall (minimum number of single server database licenses is 10 per CPU), you procure 40 additional named user plus database licenses (since single server database licenses are no longer offered by Oracle). Are you in compliance?
• You've recently upgraded to 4 CPU, web-facing application where the public can order your products online. Your internal user population accessing the application is 5 and you've deployed 100 Named User Plus database enterprise edition against the aforementioned. Are you in compliance?
  
  a. What if you downgrade to a 2 CPU server?
  b. What if you restrict access to 100 unique client account login names?
• A single server has Oracle Financial applications deployed and since its initial deployment, your DBA has added tables to the underlying Oracle database. You have 10 users accessing Purchasing module, 10 accessing General Ledger and the same 10 users accessing General Ledger/Projects. Your Oracle inventory consists of 30 Oracle Financial application licenses and no database licenses. Are you in compliance?
• Your 4 CPU server is accessed by 2 developers and 100 employees concurrently. You own 100 Named User Plus and 100 Concurrent Device database licenses. Are you in compliance?
• You have 100 Named User Plus database enterprise edition licenses deployed on 2 servers, each with 2 CPUs. Your employee population of 100 can access both servers, however Tuning pack is installed on only one server. You purchase 50 Tuning Pack licenses. Are you in compliance?
• Concurrent user can be defined as the "Average number of authorized users over a specific period of time."
• Can you deploy Oracle Standard edition database licensing to a 6 CPU server with 15 unique users?
• Can you deploy Oracle Enterprise edition licensing on a test server if the production server is licensed for Standard edition?
• Can you run Oracle Discoverer Desktop Edition without at least one copy of Internet Developer Suite (IDS)?
• Are database licenses always required for test servers?