 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | A Fully Integrated Study System for OCA Exam 1Z0-052 Prepare for the Oracle Certified Associate Oracle Database 11g Administration I exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all OCA objectives for exam 1Z0-052, including: Database architecture - Creating an Oracle Database
- Managing the Oracle instance
- Configuring and managing the Oracle network
- Managing database storage structures
- Administering user security
- Managing schema objects, data and concurrency, and undo data
- Implementing Oracle Database security
- Database maintenance and performance management
- Backup and recovery
- Moving data
- Intelligent infrastructure enhancements
On the CD-ROM: - One full practice exam that simulates the actual OCA exam
- Detailed answers and explanations
- Score report performance assessment tool
- Complete electronic book
- Bonus exam available free with online registration
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Average Customer Rating:   This book has potential After reading a few Oracle cert books I really, really, liked the way this book was organized. Structurally, it's written well, with cohesion, conciseness, and terms that don't seem like and endless decoupled liturgy of things to memorize.
However, the proof reading and syntax issues in this book blows. It's got way too many errata issues that I'm finding as I read. And this isn't good for a book that supposed to help you pass a test and for a book that's listed at 59.95.
And it's not terribly easy to find the already existing errata that's been published on McGraw Hill's web site(s) of which there are many.
Things I've found already (excluding the already published errata are)
Chapter 5 in the book indicates that BACKGROUND_DUMP_DEST parameter used to point to trace locations. However, this parameter is now deprecated.
Page 278 Chapter 7 Self Test Answers number 9. Indicates that D and E are the correct answers outing C "because there is no relevant information in V$DATABASE. However, on page 275 D in the question is V$DATABASE. D is one of the "correct" answers on page 278, yet V$DATABASE, as indicated, is incorrect. The problem is that there's a mismatch of the test question answers with the actual answers. According to the original question, the answer should be E for V$DATAFILE and for V$TABLESPACE. The answer needs to be rewritten, or the question does.
Page 278 Chapter 7 Self Test Answers number 10. Discusses the DBA_TABLESPACE view. There is no such view; however, DBA_TABLESPACES exists.
Also, I'm getting the feeling that the test questions were aggregated separately from its content. Which is OK, I rather like the challenge--seems more like a test. However, part of me feels that if you read the book well enough you should be able to answer the book's questions using information provided in the book. Shouldn't the author literally be able to cut and paste his own text in the answer section, perhaps paraphrased with a reference to the chapter text? I'm not seeing that at all.
So do I hate this book? Not at all. It's a good read for sure. However, I'm reading it on one of those book club subscriptions and gleaning what I need. Glad I'm not paying full price for something with so many errors. I'm tired of expensive technical books with all the errors in print. If they fix the errors in this book, it could be a 5 star read and worthy of republishing.
I hope it's a good one I haven't had a chance to read it but I hope it's as good as "OCA Oracle Database 11g SQL Fundamentals I" which helped me a lot to pass that exam. Excellent Book for DBA Certification The books is very good for Oracle DBA certification. It has all the topics covered with clear explaination and the important tips and points for exams are also highlighted.
I am rating the book 4 star. Excellent Training Book; Used as our textbook at Tulane Have only just started the course, but our instructor chose this book for the textbook. He has been teaching Oracle at Tulane for many years. Very helpful book This book is a must for 1Z0-052 test. I have Oracle's video course on CD ($750). It is not even close to the quality of that book. John Watson did a great job! |  |
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