- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; Pap/Cdr edition (1 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0072195304
- ISBN-13: 978-0072195309
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 18.8 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #44 in Books > Computers & Internet > Certification > Publishers > Osborne McGraw-Hill
- #79 in Books > Computers & Internet > Certification > Subjects > Oracle
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"The need for Oracle technical professionals has never been so great. Oracle's own certification program recently grew by 100 percent in just eight months and continues to grow at an incredible pace. Even with all these new OCP members, businesses using Oracle technologies still have a large amount of open job orders for OCPs. There just are not enough OCPs! What this really means is that should you choose to earn an Oracle certification, your opportunities will increase greatly, and recent metrics support this." - Mike Serpe, Oracle University, Certification Magazine
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Get Certified with Official Exam Prep Material from Oracle Press
Prepare for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle9i Database: New Features for Administrators exam a required exam for upgrading your Oracle8i or earlier DBA certification using this Oracle Press study guide. Throughout each chapter, you'll find in-depth details on all the material covered on this challenging exam, followed by practice questions and chapter summaries to highlight what you've learned. Authorized by Oracle Corporation, this book and CD-ROM package is the most comprehensive preparation tool available for the Oracle9i Database: New Features for Administrators exam.
-100% complete coverage of all official exam objectives
-Exercises at the end of all discussions that reinforce your Oracle knowledge right away
-Tips, examples, and reviews in every chapter to help you remember key concepts
-Two-minute drills quick and concise checklists that summarize each chapter's main points
-Chapter self-tests exam-based questions complete with in-depth explanations
-More than 300 practice questions including scenario-based questions
Book and CD-ROM include more than 300 interactive exam-based questions. CD-ROM contains interactive exams that simulate the actual OCP exams and include hotlinked questions, answers, and explanations.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I can't see which bit of "Exam Guide" the one-star previous reader didn't understand.
No, the book doesn't show you how to set up environments, but that is not what the book is for! It's much more concise to use for studying than the actual Oracle course manuals for the exam.
I've used this book and scored 51 out of 53. I strongly recommend buying it.
Are you going to be a Guru in Oracle 9i after reading it? No.
Will it help you pass the exam? Yes.
17 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book in order to study for the Oracle9i upgrade exam. However, when I started to read it I realised that the book concerns itself only with new features in the Oracle9i database and hence doesn't discuss how to setup an environment in which to test these new features. An example is the Replication section. The book immediately starts discussing how to add a new master without quiescing the master group.
Hence, it doesn't discuss how to set-up replication in an Oracle9i environment in order for one to test the new features. This is left entirely up to the reader. And therefore I find myself spending more time reading the Oracle documentation in order to establish environments in which I can test new features, than focusing on reading the book and the actual upgrade exam.
People might argue that this information comes with experience with the Oracle9i environment. But I would argue that:
1. Most DBA's wouldn't have had the chance to look at all services and all new features of an Oracle9i database.
2. If you actually have come across all services and new features of the Oracle9i database, you wouldn't need this book anyway...
What's worse, is the fact that this book is officially endorsed as the authorised OCP study guide by Oracle Press.
Bottomline is: This book is not worth the paper it's written on. There's a complete lack of depth and scope. An added bonus is the amount of typing errors found in this book (e.g. references to data dictionary view names etc.), as well.
At the moment you would be better off reading the "What's new" sections in the Oracle documentation when studying, at least you will find documentation pertaining to how to establish environments that can be used to test new features.
The online Oracle study guide will tell you exactly where to aim your study sessions - and therefore this book is useless.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Shame on Osborne press.
22 Mar 2002
Format:Paperback
As soon as I saw this book on Amazon, I grabbed it. When I read about author I got already suspicious. The absence of any DBA experience shows too obvious in the book itself. May be he just thought 'it would be cool to write book about something, why not Oracle'. In the book there are Clinton and God, which is fine, but how it helps to get DBA OCP. One of the worst Oracle book I have read, and there are some really bad. I don't even know, can I trust now that questions on CD are from the real tests
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Who edited this thing?
21 Mar 2002
Format:Paperback
I have 8 years of Oracle experience and have completed all the certifications since v7.3. I have been waiting for a book to help prepare for the 9i upgrade exam so I was happy to finally get this book. I'm halfway through reading it and have found more errors than I have fingers to count. I'm no editor so the errors I have found are blatant and it makes me nervous as to how many subtle errors there are that I missed and thereby got misinformation. The content seems ok but it is annoying to know you spent money for a book that has information you cannot trust. Wait for the next publishing, maybe the errors will be cleared up by then.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Good preparation for the ORACLE9i new features exam
1 May 2002
Format:Paperback
Yesterday I passed the test with 49 of 56 correct questions at least partly thanks to this book. Together with the test questions from selftestsoftware and the ORACLE documentation you should be able to pass the test.
I found that this book covers all of the topic that I found in my exam. However sometimes it misses some minor details that might be needed in the exam (1 of the 7 questions that I answered wrongly was such a case). I you are aiming for a perfect score in the exam this is not the book but I think a perfect score in a test that you only need to pass should not be the goal of test preparation...
I will use (and already used) this book as a reference for my work with ORACLE9i new features.
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