Oracle Certified DBA Exam : Question and Answer Book (Paperback)

by Sima Yazdani (Author), Shirley S. Wong (Author), Shirley Wong (Author)

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From the Back Cover

• Covers all required DBA tests
• Includes Oracle8 and 8i upgrades
• Contains practice tests, detailed answers, explanations, and references

Q&A-based preparation for your Oracle DBA certification: fast, concise, and effective!

You want to acquire Oracle DBA Certification, and you don't have a minute to waste! That's why you need the Oracle Certified DBA Exam: Question and Answer Book—built around four real practice exams covering every concept and technique Oracle expects you to master.

Take the tests—then review comprehensive answers, explanations, and references supplied by three of the world's leading Oracle database professionals. It's the fastest, most effective way to assess your skills, address your weaknesses, and get your credentials!

Coverage includes:

• Oracle database system concepts and options, including Oracle architecture, instances, data dictionaries, database files, and security
• Database backup, recovery, startup, and shutdown
• SQL and PL/SQL, including data administration, modeling, physical database design, stored procedures, triggers, snapshots, and flow control
• Database administration principles and practices: software installation, resource management, and performance tuning
• Oracle8 and 8i upgrades and enhancements: object-relational features, data warehousing, Internet computing, and more

Practical and concise, there's no better resource for Oracle professionals who want to achieve—or upgrade—their DBA certification!

About the Author

Sima Yazdani (Javanbakht) is Senior IT Engineer at San Jose, CA-based Cisco Systems, which has one of the most advanced data warehouses in the industry. Her responsibilities include analysis and architecture of data warehouse, metadata, and Internet applications. She has worked with Oracle database technologies as a developer, DBA, and application architect since 1985. Sima also contributes to the Database Systems and Concepts certificate program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, developing the academic curriculum and teaching Oracle technology-related courses.

Shirley Wong is Senior IT Project Manager at Cisco Systems, with responsibilities that include the managing and rollout of Cisco's enterprise-wide Data Warehouse decision support applications. Previously, Shirley was Vice President and Director at the Bank of America's Systems Engineering Division, where she oversaw the bank's statewide retail automation systems. She and Sima are co-authors of a DBA handbook on data warehousing.

Tao-Sang Tong worked for the Oracle Corporation for over five years. At Oracle, he held several engineering positions on porting Oracle Server and Oracle Applications to different operating systems. He holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (December 26, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130142719
• ISBN-13: 978-0130142719
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,473,578 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's not worth of buying, January 27, 2001

By A Customer

A very poorly compiled, full of errors (spellings and contents) practice workbook. None of the three authors has actually passed the OCP DBA certification. This book should be entitled Oracle for Dummies or Element Oracle 101. It is definitely not the book that can help you to prepare the real OCP exams. I already returned the book and asked my money back. Very surprised the Prentice Hall can publish such a useless book. Shame to PH!

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth of buying!, January 27, 2001

By	OCP DBA (New York) - See all my reviews

A very poorly compiled, full of errors (spellings and contents) practice workbook. None of the three authors has actually passed the OCP DBA certification. This book should be entitled Element Oracle 101. It is definitely not the book that can help you to prepare the real OCP exams. I already returned the book and asked my money back. Very surprised the Prentice Hall can publish such a useless book. Shame to PH!

2.0 out of 5 stars Definitely not for the novice or grammatical sticklers!, January 23, 2001

By	ls (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

Aside from the numerous spelling errors, even the "concise" explanations after the question/answer portions of this book are pale. This book is for people who have at least an intermediate level of knowledge of Oracle to get anything from this book or at times to decipher some of the explanations that make absolutely no sense at all. The official Oracle DBA certification exam guides and practice tests are the way to go for your certification!