Oracle Exadata Database Machine Implementation Essentials - Exam cleared

I have cleared my 'Oracle Exadata Database Machine Implementation Essentails' exam on 9-July-2015. This has been really one of the good weeks of my life. My latest Oracle book, 'Oracle Exadata Expert's Handbook' was released on 6-July-2015, passed the exam on 9-July-2015, can't ask for more.

Thank you my dears and nears.

1Z0-048 Oracle Database 10g: Real Applications Clusters Administrator Certified Expert - CLEARED

Well, this morning I have passed the 1ZO-048 RAC expert exam.

Let me reveal about my preparations before my mail box gets filled by hundreds of mails asking me to provide documents and etc stuff. For me, Oracle RAC documentation, Oracle university (RAC course) material and of course the extensive production practice knowledge of RAC certainly helped me a lot to prepare and pass this exam. I am sorry, I can't offer anything more than this.

After the exam, a small thought comes into my mind. Since this exam comes under EXPERT category, I thought, it would have been more better doing a day practical lab exam than simply doing the multiple choice questioning exam.

Have nice time,

Jaffar

Oracle Database Sql Expert beta exam

This morning I have attended the 1Z0-047 Database Sql Expert beta exam and expecting around 80% of it. The exam has 139 question with 3hrs of time. However, I have completed the exam just before the give time, i.e. within 2hr 45 minutes.

This was my first beta exam and I have felt that the duration of the exam is too long with plenty of . There were couple of questions with absolutely wrong choices(answers) and few of the questions were redundant.

But, the exam prepration has refreshed my sql basics once again and also helped me to learn new SQL aggregated function like, GROUPING, GROUPING_SETS, ROLLUP,CUBE, and other few new feature of SQL (WITH CLAUSE, Multitable Inserts, MERGE).

Well, I have to wait 2 or more months in order to receive the score sheet and ofcourse the result whether I am through or not.

In my opinion, this exam is more suitable for the Developer who are in touch with writing queries and upto date of sql funtion. Definately, a piece of cake for them with NO REALL CHALLENGES.

Happy reading,

Jaffar

1Z0-047 Oracle Database SQL Expert

Well, after learning about this beta exam from Laurent, I couldn't stop myself registering this exam. I am going to take this exam on 25th of this month. I knew, its too far, but, due to the time constraints and busy schedule, I had to register the exam on the specified date.

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_org_id=1001&lang=US&p_exam_id=1Z0_047

I am not so found of this expert certification word, as I don't believe in simply reading books, attending the exam (selecting right answer from the list of answers) and passing the expert exam.

It would have brought more interest and value to the certification if Oracle consider EXPERT exams as practical ones where cnadidate can show his/her reall skills rather than the temporary knowledge got from some testing questions or etc for the sake of passing the exam.

Jaffar

Oracle 10g Upgrade (OCP)

I have just cleared my OCP 10g upgrade (IZO-040) exam.
Couple of weeks ago, I have attend the 10g New Features for Database Administor course and prepared my self for the exam.
During my course, I have come across few of new features which we could use in our database.
I will discuss about them in my coming posts.

Its time to party.