RE: exam question

Good points Jeremiah. In defense of the exam, I would like to make two points:
1) I've found the actual exam to be less tricky than the sample exams. My assumption is that the actual exam has been tested more broadly than a publisher can afford to. This is irritating, but not life-threatening. If you have progressed to the point of finding flaws with the sample exams, you are ready to pass the actual exam. And in the end, passing is all that counts.
2) The subtly of the exam questions is an attempt to see if you really understand the material or are just parroting back what you've memorized. It isn't a perfect mechanism. Maybe we should form the Guild of Oracle Experts as an alternative to the OCP. Administer the examination we feel is appropriate.
Dennis Williams
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Lifetouch, Inc.
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On Thu, 22 May 2003, Vladimir Barac wrote:

> Why don't you try it yourself?

Umm, he pretty much did try it himself. His questions really are, "Isn't this exam question unclear and idiotic? How are you supposed to pass the exam if the exam qriters lack basic skills of rational thought?"

The answers are yes and I don't know.

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> 

> > here is a question

> >

> > Q. You need to determine the amount of space currently used in each

> > tablespace.

> > You can retrieve this information in a single SQL statment using only

one


> > DBA view in the FROM clause providing you use either the _______ or

> _______

> > DBA view.

> >

> > A.DBA_EXTENTS.

> >

> > B.DBA_SEGMENTS.

> >

> > C.DBA_DATA_FILES.

> >

> > D.DBA_TABLESPACES.

> >

> > I was thinking that dba_extents and dba_segments would be the correct

> answer

> > because i could use :

> > select tablespace_name, sum(bytes) from dba_extents group by

> tablespace_name

> > ;

> >

> > select tablespace_name, sum(bytes) from dba_segments group by

> > tablespace_name;

> >

> >

> >

> > But The answer given says dba_extents and dba_data_files.  Is the given

> > answer wrong or is there some way of finding out from dba_data_files how

> > much space is used up in a tablespace

> >

> > For that matter what does the question want to know ? does it want to

know


> > how much space do the tablespaces have ( that would be the sum of the

> sizes

> > of the data files ) or how much is ""used up"" ?


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