Re: Backup and Recovery Certification Exam

Me too is disappointed by the OCP exams.

I am already a Certified DBA. I thought the OCP exam was something like Cisco CCIE, but it in turn is a Microsoft MSCE -- anyone who has the training materials can pass -- no need of in-depth knowledge, no need of real fighting experience.

I really doubt how 'representative' it is and why it costs that much.

Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com> wrote in message news:8GTM2.752$88.30187_at_news14.ispnews.com...
> A strange thing happened when I took the exam yesterday. Out of sixty
> questions I had read about 10% would be on export/import. And there were
> six questions on that topic.
> Three of them were specific questions about the "direct" parameter in
> export. One question involved "direct" in a more general way. There were
> no questions on import. There were no questions on export modes. There
> were no questions on complete/cumulative/incremental backups. And there
> were no questions on what is exportable. So the test really made no
effort
> to find out what I knew about export/import.
> My guess is that there is a large database of questions on each subject
> and a certain number in each area are selected randomly for the test. So
> you can get this bunching in certain areas.
> Has anyone else had this experience?
> If my guess is right, do you think random selection of questions
provides
> a better test than one where a knowledgable person picked the questions?
>
> Van
>
>
Received on Mon Apr 05 1999 - 12:12:51 CDT