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I have just passed my 4th DBA exam. I found the Oracle DBA guides to be about useless when I needed detailed information (When I started studying for these only the version for Oracle 7 was available. so this may have changed.) I have used the Sybex books with great success. I find them to contain more information than I actually need to pass the test. Some might consider that a drawback. I also use the STS practice test. I have found them to be so similar to the real test that I feel it is almost cheating. The actual exams seem to go into more detail and combine concepts in a manner that STS doesn't but that is where the book study comes in. ( I also know that you can pass the exams just from studying the practice test but I would NOT recommend it) When I did the developers exams I had a much easier time than the people with more experience because I only knew what the official Oracle method was while they had to remember not to use the answer that they had worked with for the past 10 years (which may have worked better). Good luck
Charles J. Fisher <cfisher_at_rhadmin.org> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0107242216450.14006-100000_at_galt.rhadmin.org...
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Ravi Alluru wrote:
>
> > I was also interested in doing my OCP. Which training material /books
did
> > you use.
> > I am currently working with Geo-Quest / Schlumberger as a DBA/Analyst
on
> > a contract.
> > I cannot afford the Oracle trainig course .
> > Could you recommend other ways . Or if you have training material
which
> > you used I could buy it from you.
>
> I have passed three of the 8i exams. My primary resource is the book by
> Jason Couchman from McGraw-Hill.
>
> The book does have some flaws. Some of the examples and discussion are
> just plain wrong, some of the material is extremely evasive (as
> most Oracle books are, especially on backup/recovery)...
>
> And the worst thing is that the three chapters for Net8 are now only
> available in PDF form packaged on the CD included with the book.
>
> The tests that I've taken seem to have some material that simply isn't
> covered with Couchman, although I passed the admin and backup exams by a
> wide margin.
>
> I've heard that it's impossible to pass the Microsoft exams by just
> reading the textbooks, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.
> Be prepared to think on your feet, though.
>
> There is also a great deal of important material that is not covered by
> the exams in general (snapshots, database links, sqlplus /nolog,
> partitions and IOTs get slight discussion for the admin exam at least, the
> question of online redo when using online backups, recovery with selected
> datafiles rather than the entire database, threats about crashes during
> checkpoints that appear to be groundless, the importance of a controlfile
> trace as opposed to a backup controlfile, but I could go on for a LONG
> time...).
>
> I still have a way to go with this sequence, but I am somewhat frustrated
> by what I'm NOT going to learn with it. Oracle should make this more of a
> community effort.
>
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