Well I was in the process of writing a book on how to pass the exam, but the
project has been put on hold by the publishers. :(
Seems like most of the publishers of exam cram type books are cutting back
substantially on them.
--
HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.
Pete
Author of "Oracle8i: Architecture and Administration Exam Cram"
"Controlling developers is like herding cats."
Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
"Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!"
Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
"Chris Boyle" <cboyle_at_no.spam.hargray.com> wrote in message
news:a2mco1$8376$1_at_news3.infoave.net...
> Congratulations Pete. I did not fare so well with the beta test. I used
> the CBTs from Oracle because I can not get to a class (Damagement has
> disallowed training classes until the project is completed). I found the
> CBTs did not cover the all of the topics that were actually on the test.
( I
> also found that quality control in the generation of CBTs is hughly
> lacking). I have decided to hold off on retaking the exams until i can
get
> to the class or more study material is available from people other than
> Oracle press. (Danial Morgan has a current post about some blatent errors
he
> found in the 9i OCP SQL manual.) I found some excellent stuff on Howard
> Rogers site but not until 2 days after the test.
> Pete Sharman <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
> news:F5Y28.7$741.252_at_inet-nntp1.oracle.com...
> > Yes, I've done it in the beta program. I didn't find it very difficult
> but
> > then again I've run the 9i New Features for Administrators course around
> the
> > world 7 or 8 times before doing it. The material covers everything
that's
> > in that course, including Advanced Replication and Workspaces.
> >
> > One thing I did like about the exam (if you can like anything about
exams)
> > was that it has more scenario based questions, such as here's the disk
> > layout for the database, where's the contention problem? Much better
for
> > testing real ability than answer these multiple choice questions.
> >
> > --
> > HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.
> >
> > Pete
> > Author of "Oracle8i: Architecture and Administration Exam Cram"
> >
> > "Controlling developers is like herding cats."
> > Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
> >
> > "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!"
> > Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
> >
> > "vob" <vob_at_aol.com> wrote in message
> > news:a2fi77$297$02$1_at_news.t-online.com...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > has anybody already done the ocp 9i upgrade exam for DBA ?
> > >
> > > Is it very difficult to pass in comparision to the 8i upgrade exam ?
> > >
> > > The exam objectives you should learn cover a huge territory .
> > >
> > > Also advanced replication is now a topic in the exam objectives but
> > > was never with the earlier exams .
> > >
> > > Greatings
> > >
> > > Volkmar
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Jan 23 2002 - 12:35:15 CST
