Oracle8 Certified Professional DBA Practice Exams [Hardcover]

Jason S. Couchman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Oracle Certified Professional (Osborne) | Publication Date: August 24, 2000

-- Directs Oracle Certified Professional candidates through required performance of critical tasks with Oracle products and platforms
-- Covers all five OCP DBA exams, with look-up tabs that divide the book into easily-referenced areas
-- Contains more than 700 original questions useful in test preparation, plus in-depth explanations and rationale for correct and incorrect answers
-- Includes CD-ROM featuring test engine with practice exams and methodology for tracking test results
-- Helps database administrators master techniques to set up, maintain, diagnose, fine-tune and troubleshoot Oracle databases

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Prepare for the OCP DBA Exams with Official Exam Prep Material from Oracle Press

Get certified with help from this Oracle-authorized self-testing and exam-preparation tool. You'll get full coverage of both the Oracle8 and Oracle8i DBA certification exams. fully endorsed by Oracle Corporation and developed in conjunction with Oracle's OCP program, this book and CD-ROM package is a powerful preparation tool packed with 12 full practice exams.

Featuring a methodology designed to reinforce your learning experience, this guide offers:

• 100% complete coverage of all official exam objectives

• Organization by exam topic for easy access to specific question types

• Special section including further study for each exam

• Answers provide in-depth explanations--and show you why the incorrect choices are wrong

More than 700 practice exam questions cover the following:

• OCP DBA Exam 1 - SQL and PL/SQL

• OCP DBA Exam 2 - Database administration

• OCP DBA Exam 3 - Backup and recovery

• OCP DBA Exam 4 - Performance tuning

• OCP DBA Exam 5 - Network administration

• OCP Oracle8i DBA Upgrade Exam - New features

About the Author

Jason Couchman (Nashville, TN) is an OCP certified Oracle DBA and author of Oracle Certified Professional DBA Certification Exam Guide and Oracle Certified Professional Application Developer Exam Guide. He has led Oracle database projects with Fortune 500 companies, presented topics at the North Carolina Oracle User Group, and written internationally published articles on internet and intranet development.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 656 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (August 24, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072127007
• ISBN-13: 978-0072127003
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,128,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oracle Certified Professional DBA Practice Exams, September 12, 2000

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David M Melton (Maumelle, AR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle8 Certified Professional DBA Practice Exams (Hardcover)

Very well put together. It looks alot like the Oracle8 Certified Professional DBA Exam Guide and works well as a supplement to it. The book is divided into 2 sections, an Exam section and a Terms and Concepts section. Each exam section has 2 tests (i.e. the database administration has Test1 of 60 questions and Test2 of 60 questions). The questions are similar to those in the DBA Exam guide, and others, but different in content. I've gone over the questions in the DBA Exam Guide to where in alot of cases I've memorized the answers. This gives you a new set of questions to work with to identify weaknesses after you've gone over the DBA Exam guide. After taking some of the tests, the Oracle Press books seem to be the way to go. This one's no different.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality -- Many Errors, February 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle8 Certified Professional DBA Practice Exams (Hardcover)

I bought this book for one reason -- to practice taking OCP exams. As for this, I can not say this book suceeded. First, the practice exam questions are much different than the real exam questions. The author of this book seems more hung up on tricking you with distracters than simulating the level of dificulty of the real exam questions. For example, all of this book's questions are muliple choice. On my OCP exams, there were a few fill in the blank, and sometimes one matching. Selecting a V$ view or init.ora parameter name from a list is totally different than typing it in from scratch.

Second, several questions in the book have the incorrect answers! I have found on every exam in this book at least two incorrect answers. The worst part is the author's explaination of the answer proves that it is wrong!

Third, the CDROM's electronic test's are filled with errors. Same problem with incorrect answers(and explainations), but the software won't let you select mulitple answers even when the question tells you to!

The only real worthy parts to the book are the Introduction (very well done) and the Exam Terms and Concepts section (however, this section is only a rapid review of complex topics -- good for a warm-up prior to taking the actual exam).

If you are looking for very good practice exams, you will not go wrong with Self-Test Software's practice tests. They are very pricy, but very accurate!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good choice for ORACLE certification seekers!, January 6, 2002

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amazingoffers (Aurora, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle8 Certified Professional DBA Practice Exams (Hardcover)

The interactive Exam-Based question on CD-ROM was very useful. This book cover all five OCP DBA exams, which make exam taker's jobs easier then ever... Best of all, the author also included Oracle 8i upgrade exam with this amazing edition. Check it out, you won't regret buying this book.