OCA 10g for DBA

Hi,
I'm planning to take the exam OCA 10g for DBA. I'm wondering which books you would recommend me as a good reference.
I think I will try 1Z0-007 and 1Z0-042 (as a mandatory one)
If 1Z0-007 exam is a good choice?
I bought a book: OCA/OCP: Introduction to Oracle9i SQL Study Guide (Hardcover)
by Chip Dawes (Author), Biju Thomas (Author)
for preparing to 1Z0-007, but I'm not sure which book is good for 1Z0-042 exam.
This one:
OCA: Oracle 10g Administration I Study Guide (1Z0-042) (Paperback)
by Chip Dawes (Author), Bob Bryla (Author), Joseph C. Johnson (Author), Matthew Weishan (Author)
or:
Oracle Database 10g OCP Certification All-In-One Exam Guide (Oracle Database 10g Handbook) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
by Damir Bersinic (Author), John Watson (Author)
I have been reading many reviews on Amazon but still I want to ask before making a decision.
Thanks

I recommend using both books.
For me the best way to prepare was first using the one of McGraw Hill because this one was easier to read.
But this book misses some details which are asked during the exam!
So the best thing is to read the one of Sybex as well aferwards to check for missing details.
A colleague of mine first prepared with only the Sybex book, but got questions on the exam which weren't covered in the Sybex book as well.
So it seems that preparing with only one of these books is not sufficient.
I didn't find too many mistakes in the McGraw Hill book.
Opposed to the OCP 11 g Upgrade book from S. Alapati... But let's not get into the pain it was to prepare using this book...
Kind regards,
David

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http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=231

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HTH
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1z0-047: http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_exam_id=1Z0_047
1z0-051: http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_exam_id=1Z0_051
1z0-052: http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_exam_id=1Z0_052
1z0-147: 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_147
1z0-144: 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_144
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With due respect, I would say the question is inappropirate.Reason for saying this,its every man's own poison.You can't ( and you shouldn't) make your opinion about this exam based on soemone's experiences.Some one who passed it with mere passing score may say its very tough,some one with full score may say it was very easy.Whom to believe?
It doesn't matter on which topic the questions come more or which topic is elliminated from the exam?Oracle has not made any kind of announcement like this ever for the exam.If the topic is listed in the exam contetns,just assume,you will get question out of it.Now it may happen that one person had not got any questions from X topic doesn't mean its not part of exam.Its just that he didnt get it but there is no such thing that you won't get it too.
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1) It's on the Oracle Education website at http://education.oracle.com under the Certification link;
2) The number of questions that will be asked, the number of questions that will be ignored out of the batch, and the number of question to get correct out of the remainder, is defined and published at the time the exam is created with Prometric.
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