Re: Dumb & Vague OCP Questions ...

It depends

a professional DBA needs to be able to know SQL*NET and its concepts in general very well to properly deploy at client sites

to know why SQL*NET works I believe it is useful to know its various layers.

One would not know the concept of layers (probably ) unless one had previously studied the existing standard models of this kind of thing such as OSI

or the 7 layer model.

It isn't just about ping, tnsping and tnsnames.ora

So I believe it's a fair question

http://otn.oracle.com/pls/db92/db92.to_URL?remark=drilldown&urlname=http:%2F%2Fdownload-west.oracle.com%2Fdocs%2Fcd%2FB10501_01%2Fnetwork.920%2Fa96580%2Farchitec.htm%231040384

Telemachus

"Domenic G." <domenicg_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c7e08a19.0401211751.5cd7165e_at_posting.google.com...
> I've been a DBA for several years, but now plan on getting certified
> because so many employers won't even hire these days without it. I
> just took a practice test, and scored 9/10 without a time limit, but
> the stupidity, irrelevance, and vagueness of some of the questions
> really floored me. Some of the questions were downright MISLEADING.
> Example: using a password file with remote_login ... set to shared.
> The whole point is to set it to exclusive so that you can add SYSDBA
> users into the file with a grant sysdba. Why do they ask about a
> setting that isn't supposed to be used? Then they ask if Oracle Net
> is part of OSI -- what the hell is OSI? -- the only OSI I know is
> from the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman series. Dumb
> questions.
>
> Dom.
Received on Mon Jan 26 2004 - 05:34:52 CST