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Title: OCP: Oracle8i DBA Architecture & Administration and Backup & Recovery Study Guide by Doug Stuns, Biju Thomas ISBN: 0-7821-2683-9 Publisher: Sybex Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent book, a few comments
Comment: 10/28/2002
First of all, I used this book as the only source and passed both the exams. Backup = 48/60 (3 weeks prep), Arch+Admin = 50/64 (3 weeks prep). Was disappointed (with myself) with both the scores, because I have good experience, and also had a 90% score on pl/sql exam, and I expected a similar score.
I think the main problem was that Oracle has updated their questions bank for 8i, and there are a few questions in there that this book does not cover. Personally, I think Oracle frames these questions to elicit bad responses. In some cases, I understood the questions well, but the answer choices were poorly phrased. In others, you had to select two answers, but more than two were clearly eligible.
My comments on B+R :-
1) Look up rman, from Oracle docs.
2) The questions list in the book is not sufficient.
I have heavy rman experience, and I scored perfect on all rman sections, which may have saved me.
Architecture + Administration: This part was more relevant to the exam. But again, I feel Oracle has updated their questions bank.
Overall, great book, but look up ora docs, for more info to feel secure.
Rating: 4
Summary: Will it work for you?
Comment: I am in the process of becoming an Oracle DBA and have attended the DBA Architecture & Administration course run by Oracle. I bought this book to suppliment the course and found it to be well structured and pretty easy to read which enabled to me to pass the Prometric exam. The sample questions are very useful.
I have since studied the Backup and Recovery section and passed the exam purely by reading this book. Both these exams were achieved within 1 month of each other and I have yet to obtain any real 'hands-on' experience (my background is Cobol, cics, DB2).
As a note though, the Backup and Recovery section does not mention Tags; learn this!
Rating: 3
Summary: Inconsistent writing styles but worth it.
Comment: Oracle 9i has been out for some time now so I'm sure most folks starting their certification path will be going that route.
If you're still on the 8i path, as I am, this book is for you. I mentioned in a review of the SQL & PL/SQL Sybex book that it was flawed but still the best out there. This is probably about the same. There are two authors credited with this book so maybe that explains why there seem to be a couple of different writing styles. Sometimes everything is spelled out and easy to understand. Other times, it seems a bit rushed and an assumption seems to be made that I should know more than actually do.
All-in-all, for the most part it's a good read. I've learned a lot but not taken the test yet. That's the ultimate test of how good this book is.
I'd give it 3.5/5
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Title: Ocp: Oracle8I Dba SQL and Pl/SQL Study Guide : Exam 1Z0-001 by Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas ISBN: 0782126820 Publisher: Sybex Books Pub. Date: 06 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Oracle8i DBA: Network Administration Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-026) by Barbara Ann Pascavage ISBN: 1588800466 Publisher: Coriolis Group Books Pub. Date: 18 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Oracle8i DBA: Backup and Recovery Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-025) by Debbie Wong ISBN: 1588800458 Publisher: Coriolis Group Books Pub. Date: 10 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Oracle8i DBA: Architecture and Administration Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-023) by Peter Sharman ISBN: 1588800369 Publisher: Coriolis Group Books Pub. Date: 20 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Oracle 9i JDBC Programming by Jason Price ISBN: 0072222549 Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 17 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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