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Summary: Good for study guide
Review: This book is good as a study guide, but you HAVE to go more deeper with the official documentation and exercise the topics with a real database. I just passed the test and it was only because I studied the topics in much further detail. It is also based on release 1 not on current release 2. It has several mistakes but easy to discover, you have to crosscheck with the documentation. But the book is a good guide, otherwise the scope of study would be too big.
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Summary: Good book to get through Exam.
Review: This book is good to get through the exam provided that one is
already having enough knowledge and experience. I got my 9i Certificate recently while relying 90% on this book. I have the following observations about the book:
1: It covers all the exam objective.
2: The book is purely written to take exam , and not for in depth knowledge.
3: Self test software has a lot of wrong answers.
4: Practice exams in the book are fairly simple and straightforward that is not the case in Real Exam.
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Summary: Lacks depth and language geared towards experienced DBAs
Review: This is book is geared for Oracle DBAs as the title indicates and is therefore written accordingly. It does have a few mistakes that you should be able to spot. As far as the exam is concerned, it covers most of the material on the test but don't use it as your only preparation tool because this book lacks depth. If this is your only study guide, unless you're an experienced DBA and master all the content in this book you will not pass the exam.
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Summary: I passed--barely
Review: While the book does an adequate job of covering the new features, there were many errors in the chapter quizzes, practice exams and on the CDROM quizzes. I wouldn't recommend buying the book if I had to do it over again. I would read the new features summary in the Oracle Documentation set and browse the checklist for the exam (from the Oracle Ed website). Overall, the best preparation I had was by attending some new features sessions at the IOUG conference in April. I passed, but probably could have passed as well without this book.
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Summary: Bring back the ExamCram
Review: Who proofed this book? Certainly not Oracle! I have been an Oracle DBA for 17 years and have never quite seen anything like this. It is filled with half-baked information, followed by contradictory exam questions.
When compared to the ExamCram book for the 8i New Features, it pales by comparison. I had to check every topic against metalink and documentation sets.
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Summary: Good preparation for the ORACLE9i new features exam
Review: Yesterday I passed the test with 49 of 56 correct questions at least partly thanks to this book. Together with the test questions from selftestsoftware and the ORACLE documentation you should be able to pass the test.I found that this book covers all of the topic that I found in my exam. However sometimes it misses some minor details that might be needed in the exam (1 of the 7 questions that I answered wrongly was such a case). I you are aiming for a perfect score in the exam this is not the book but I think a perfect score in a test that you only need to pass should not be the goal of test preparation... I will use (and already used) this book as a reference for my work with ORACLE9i new features.
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