A study guide for Oracle database administrators who want OCP certification. Certification ensures a high level of competence in the DBA job role. An accompanying CD-ROM includes self-testing software and pre-assessment exams.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not great,
By HV (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: OCP: ORacle8i DBA Performance Tuning and Network Administration Study Guide (With CD-ROM) (Hardcover)
You can pass your exams if you rely only on this book, but you won't have a comfortable margin. The performance tuning section is the stronger of the section, and would give it 5 stars. I didn't find errors, and did pass the performance tuning exam with 58 out of 59. The network section is why I gave the book an overall rating of three stars. There are errors (like explaining how to use connection pooling with connection concentration), typos, wrong commands, obvious -if- you knew the material. If you didn't know the material, the errors were confusing. There were also errors in the test sections. One or two errors may not seem like a big deal unless it's the difference between passing the test or not. I got the impression that the person who wrote the networking section didn't really know the nuts and bolts of networking. For networking I'd recommend The Exam Cram Book; accurate, to the point, easy to understand, written by someone who knew her stuff. I passed the networking exam, 55 out of 59, but reading the Exam Cram and reviewing the Oracle documentation would have been sufficient.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Beware the CD,
By "sundial312" (Belltown, Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: OCP: ORacle8i DBA Performance Tuning and Network Administration Study Guide (With CD-ROM) (Hardcover)
Book 5 stars. CD 1 stars. I have just finished the Net8 part of the book. I got a very good understanding of all the options. I can highly recommend the book for the text and the offline review questions. The CD is frustrating. All the answers are one question off. (i.e., on question 1 it gives the answer for question 2). When you score the exam you look like a fool. If you click on the answer button, the explanation will give you the appropriate answer.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: OCP: ORacle8i DBA Performance Tuning and Network Administration Study Guide (With CD-ROM) (Hardcover)
I found this book very informative and covering almost ALL questions covered in the exam. There are 11 Chapters in total (including additional 8i Chapter on CD) , which are all written in an easily to understand way with 20 review questions after each chapter. The topics covered in the last chapter (on CD) can be also found throughtout the relevant chapters, but it a good revision chapter on the new NET8 abilities. There are 3 practice exams within the book and CD, I would advise only attmpting the last Practice exam (toward the end of the book) when you get close to feeling you are ready to sit the real exam. This will give you a good guide as to whether you have learnt enough about NET8. The only negative issue I have in regard to this section of the book is that some of the revision question answers are incorrect, and can be a bit frustrating, on the upside though, if you can determine which are wrong, you must be learning something. The Bonus Exam on the CD is the worst offender, in which has all the wrong answers for the questions.. gave me a bit of a fright when I first saw my score. Also, the questions are a bit to 'theoryish', and I would've like to have seen a few more Situation questions like the real exam uses. All-in-all though, these NET8 chapters, as well as drawing on industry experince, were the only resources I utilised on the road to completing my NET8 exam, whilst scoring 48/59. In hindsight, these NET8 chapters deserve 4.5 stars, losing that half a star because of the error in the exam questions. Great information for any DBA though, and definatly the only one to consider when making your Oracle book purchase for OCP.
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'Why is the system so slow?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
connect descriptor information, service name information, prespawned processes, net service name, flat naming model, multithreaded server environment, multithreaded connections, hostnaming method, localnaming method, single outgoing connection, formatted trace file, resource consumer group, namesctl utility, external naming environment, ora file, redo log buffer, user trace file, retry ratio, cache replication, external naming service, listener redirects, network service name, resource plan directives, connection concentration, dynamic performance views Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oracle Expert, Database Buffer Cache, Shared Pool, Review Questions, Performance Manager, Resource Manager, Advanced Security, Explain Plan, Data Dictionary Cache, Dirty List, Oracle Corporation, Database Writer, Key Terms, Certification Web, Intelligent Agent, Keep Pool, System Global Area, User Global Area, Default Pool, Trace Assistant, Column Name Description, Per Transaction, Reverse Key, Diagnostics Pack, Recycle Pool New!
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connect descriptor information, service name information, prespawned processes, net service name, flat naming model, multithreaded server environment, multithreaded connections, hostnaming method, localnaming method, single outgoing connection, formatted trace file, resource consumer group, namesctl utility, external naming environment, ora file, redo log buffer, user trace file, retry ratio, cache replication, external naming service, listener redirects, network service name, resource plan directives, connection concentration, dynamic performance views Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oracle Expert, Database Buffer Cache, Shared Pool, Review Questions, Performance Manager, Resource Manager, Advanced Security, Explain Plan, Data Dictionary Cache, Dirty List, Oracle Corporation, Database Writer, Key Terms, Certification Web, Intelligent Agent, Keep Pool, System Global Area, User Global Area, Default Pool, Trace Assistant, Column Name Description, Per Transaction, Reverse Key, Diagnostics Pack, Recycle Pool New!
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- Object Oriented Analysis and Design by D. Hayes in Front Matter
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