Okay then I have bad news for you... They do concentrate on a lot of seldom
used concepts and will only accept the official ORACLE answer as being
correct. I work with a developer who has 5 times the experience I do. She
had a harder time with the test because she knew so many different and
possibly better ways to accomplish the same goal. Both the Developer and
DBA track are like that. On the plus side you will get exposed to a ton of
concepts that you might need at some point but I felt most of the questions
were designed to make sure you had taken the classes from oracle. (as for
typing in a query...would you really want to miss the question because you
had typed form instead of from? SQLPLUS will detect that and allow you to
fix it quickly but the test engine would say it was wrong even if you got
the rest of the syntax correct.)
Keith Boulton <kboulton_at_ntlunspam-world.com> wrote in message
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> Actually, I didn't mean difficult so much as irrelevant. For example in
the
> sample sql & pl/sql I found that some of the terminology used was just
weird
> and many of examples were of the form "what will this incorrect SQL
> statement return." Maybe it's just the result of a multiple choice test,
but
> surely a reasonable test would be: write a sql statement that returns ...
> from table(s)... given ...
>
> "Chris Boyle" <cboyle_at_no.spam.hargray.com> wrote in message
> news:9lh5tr$5elb$1_at_news3.infoave.net...
> > I actually found them to be more difficult for the most part.
> > Keith Boulton <kboulton_at_ntlunspam-world.com> wrote in message
> > news:viLe7.37013$zs.354376_at_news11-gui.server.ntli.net...
> > > Are the real OCP tests as bad as the free samples from SelfTest?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Fri Aug 17 2001 - 06:01:54 CDT
