get Oracle certified

i am going to a workshop with modules (part II)

could someone who has taken this test and passed it tell me what they did to study for it?

Enough for my developer job. Not sure I want to get into being a DBA yet.

Got my OCP last year, and want to start studying for the OCM (Oracle Certified Master). Looking at the objectives (http://www.oracle.com/education), it could very well take me at least two years to thoroughly learn the objectives.

Had an idea to create a website with all the objectives and post how I accomplished each. It would have links to Oracle documentation, terminal copy/pastes, and notes. Then I could refer back or let others contribute to problems/questions. That could very well turn into a community—a study group OCM website. What does everyone think?

need to get rolling on this again. just (finally!) got a good install of grid control this last week and have been obsessing about it since … too bad it’s not a major part of the test (tho it should be because it’s pretty amazing).

in any case, cracking the whip!

I passed the first exam (SQL) some years ago, but I was too lazy to prepare for the rest of them. I need only one more passed exam to achieve the OCA certification and afterwards two more for the OCP.

passed by the skin o my teeth … it was much more difficult than i anticipated. the questions tended to be more on the obscure side and deductive reasoning was used more than once but, in the end, i managed to scrape by =]

on to 1Z0-040 …

studying my a$$ off at the moment and feeling woefully underprepared for the test on tuesday … considering taking tomorrow off just to get more hours of reading in. hopefully this last minute anxiousness is unfounded but i seriously doubt it.

... just scheduled my 9i upgrade exam for next wednesday. am i ready to take it? hell no. have i been studying much lately? definitely not. this is probably the kick in the posterior that I need to wrap up this test and get started on 10g.

is take a class.

Planning on taking the Data Warehouse class in NYC in September. Just need to cough up the cash and sign up.

with a very good score, too.

some of the questions were verbatim from the practice tests. Switching from the OCP test prep to the selftestsoftware.com stuff was a very good choice after all.