Oracle-L: RE: who writes the OCP tests?

From: Pete Sharman <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:54:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D3FD5.20031022115427@fatcity.com>

Not I, never even seen the questions to tell you the truth. I believe there's an email address you can raise exam issues with - ocpexam_ww_at_oracle.com. You might want to send this to them to see if they have more relevant feedback than I'd ever have on this exam.

Pete
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rgaffuri_at_cox.net
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

all oracle employees? Are any of you involved in the 9i PL/SQL test? I just took it today and passed it. I didnt study at all.

Id like to state that it is an incredibly stupid test. Ive been told the PErformance tuning one is bad also...

Some gripes:

Only package that I was asked about was dbms_lob and of the 66 questions maybe 5-7 were on this package so about 10%.
40-50% of the test was on triggers. A bit disproportionate dont you think?
I was asked about 6-8 questions on how to call procedures and functions and they slipped in a few defaults to 'trick' you. That is WAY too many.
Nothing on Arrays, PL/SQL tables, Bulk Binds, or dynamic sql.
In my overview it said I need to study the following(but they never asked me about them) UTL_TCP, UTL_HTTP, dbms_ddl.

DBMS_DDL is antiquated and I cant think of anything I need it for. I wrap everything in execute immediate(which wasnt on the test). How many people actually use UTL_TCP and UTL_HTTP anyway? I dont. Far more people use other features that werent covered.

im done griping. This was REALLY bad.

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