OCP Oracle9i Database: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide [Paperback]

Daniel Benjamin (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0072195304 | ISBN-13: 978-0072195309

"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.

About the Author

Jason Couchman (New York, NY) is an OCP-certified Oracle DBA and author of Oracle Certified Professional DBA Certification Exam Guide, Oracle Certified Professional Application Developer Exam Guide, Oracle Certified Professional DBO Certification Exam Guide, and Oracle8 Certified Professional DBA Practice Exams. He has led Oracle database projects with Fortune 500 corporations and presented topics at the North Carolina Oracle User Group. His articles on Internet and Intranet development have been published internationally.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072195304
• ISBN-13: 978-0072195309
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,367,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shame on Osborne press., March 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: OCP Oracle9i Database: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide (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:

2.0 out of 5 stars Who edited this thing?, March 21, 2002

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"burkeroberts" (Camp Hill, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: OCP Oracle9i Database: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide (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:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good preparation for the ORACLE9i new features exam, May 1, 2002

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Gregor Theis (Meerbusch Deutschland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: OCP Oracle9i Database: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide (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.