Comments on: Oracle Certification

by: Laurent Schneider

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:36:03 +0000

ILT is Instructor Lead Training, it is a Course with official Oracle course ware, given either from Oracle or from an authorized education center

by: Harshad Gohil

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:19:33 +0000

Hi Rado,

I am preparing for RAC certification, as you guys are expert or I can say Guru in this subject. Just need expert’s advice on this. Where I can get ILT D17276GC20. Do I have to register and enroll for Oracle U?niversity …? Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Harshad.

by: Radoslav Rusinov

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:04:14 +0000

I meant that frequently in Oracle advanced courses can be found topics that are not covered in Metalink. This is another reason to attend an ILT course, it can provide you with very valuable information about Oracle internals for example.
For example: OCR Architecture is explained very well in chapter 9, slides 17,18 and 19. Part of the OCR architecture is the “OCR cache” that each node maintains as its own in-memory copy of OCR. “Only one of the CRS processes actually reads from and writes to the OCR file on shared storage”, etc. Try to search for “OCR cache” in Metalink (in “All sources”) and you will see that only two results will be returned (information for two bugs).

by: NYC

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:03:17 +0000

What, in your view, is an example of a topic that is not covered in Oracle Documentation or Metalink?

by: Radoslav Rusinov

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:33:43 +0000

My point of view about needed course material for the 1Z1-048 is that the best study source is Oracle ILT (D17276GC20): Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators. It is update for 10g R2 and includes these two new chapters that Hubby mentioned.
I have been on the beta exam and a lot of questions concerning Oracle 10g R2 were included. The contents of the course are very specific and there a lot of advanced topics that are not covered in Oracle Documentation or even in Metalink.
For all that are interested, I can share a few more tips about the exam (I hope that this will not be considered as “fraudulent activity” by Oracle ):
- Be prepared for a lot of “multiple choice questions” (around 80%)
- There are a lot of questions “choose all answers that apply” too
- The questions are difficult and the given time of 3.5 hours is not enough. Prepare a very good time management strategy if you want to answer all questions in time.
By my opinion, most of the beta questions will be chosen for the final exam, which means that you must answer correctly to the most of them.

Best regards,
Rado

by: Laurent Schneider

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:43:43 +0000

somehow it seems you can be a certified expert in two days

by: Laurent Schneider

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:42:33 +0000

I have also read 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide

by: Laurent Schneider

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:39:33 +0000

well, I have no course material, only the online documentation…

for the clusterware command, I am currently reading the appendixes of the
Oracle® Database Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide
10g Release 2 (10.2)

by: Hubby

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:22:41 +0000

Re-Salut Laurent,
Thanks for the screenshots, that’s true and now oracle has also published the exam topics also on that beta Linux exam.
Otherwise I have done the Beta exam Oracle under linux and preparing the RAC exam. Concerning the RAC exam I have only the old 10g r1 RAC material from Oracle University and they have 2 new chapters Oracle Clusterware Administration (New) and Diagnosing the Oracle Clusterware components (New). Do you have any idea where I could find those RAC topics? Thanks Regards, Hubert

by: Laurent Schneider

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:07:37 +0000

Ok, I did not understand your question correctly, sorry.

as you said, http://www.oracle.com/global/us/education/certification/beta_info.html
1Z1-402 Oracle Enterprise Linux: Linux Fundamentals In Development

It is not possible to register for a date earlier than June 27th, so the exam should be ready at that date