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5 comments about Oracle8 DBA: Backup and Recovery Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-015).

1. I just passed my first OCP test today,3 hours ago. Before reading this book, I tried the free self-test sofware from Oracle and made only 40%. Today I made 90% or 54 corrects out of 60 questions in the real exam. Without this book, I surely will fail, especially at the Recovery Manager sections (18 questions) which I am not familiar with. Besides, thanks to this book, I found many mistakes I made in the backup strategy for our databases and corrected them. Thanks, Debbie!. You wrote a great book!. It helped me more than the 2000-dollar course I attended.



2. This is definitely the best of the 5 cram books for Oracle8 DBA certification exams. The author demonstrated that she is an experienced DBA in Oracle. I have never touched Oracle but I have been DBA for many years and I know a good DBA when I see one. I luckily passed all exams in 9 weeks using the cram books. Thank you Debbie!



3. this book is very average. i think that people are looking at their passing scores on the b&R test and just assuming the book helped them a great deal. truth is, the test isn't that hard if you study the general material. and sure, the book presents the general material... but it does so in a scatterbrained and unorganized fashion. the explanations of utilities such as rman and theories of restore/recovery are presented in a very ambiguous manner. (if you don't use rman, you'll have a test time grasping it's used based on the chapters in this book) plus, there's a lot of extra stuff that you don't need to know. sure, it's nice to know everything - but this book is for test preparation, right? the book is ok... maybe worth 3 stars. (and yes, i passed with a good score and i used the book) however, i'm giving it 2 based on the facts that it's ranked too high already, and it's pretty disappointing for a book that should be an easy write for a qualified DBA.



4. I finished reading the book in just a week and took the exam afterwards and got 57/60 in the exam. Great book for OCP preparation. I have only a couple of months of Oracle experience and do not know anything about Oracle backup and recovery before I read the book. The only other preparation material that I used is Selftest Software. In fact, a lot of questions are either same or similar in these two packages.

   But in real world, you probably will need another book and more practice in your implementation of your backup and restore strategy.




5. Excellent preparation for the exam. Like the Performance Tuning, DBA, and Network Exam Crams, the material is well organized, thorough, and the practice exams are harder than the real thing.

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