Oracle OCP

Question

Here’s the scoop. I am pursing an Oracle 9i OCP certification, though I have not taken the tests yet for OCA. I am planning on taking the SQL (007) test this weekend on the Internet. I have the Sybex book to study with for this course. Well I skimmed through the book in a day, really only reading the differences from 81 to 9i. I took the practice test that came with the book last night, it gave me well over an hour to take the test and after I took it I still had over an hour left to review the test. I didn’t review the test and went straight to grading, I only got a little over 60% correct. After reviewing the incorrect answers, I already knew almost all of the correct answers but since I was under a time constraint, I zoomed thru the test to insure I finished in time. Of the questions I missed, most were tricky, which lead me to select the incorrect answer (now I know better). So I have the following questions:
1)     Is the real test just as tricky as the practice test?
2)     Are the questions on the practice test very similar to the real test?
Secondly, I saw something on the Oracle site that stated to achieve the OCP certification, the applicant must have at least one Oracle training course. Question is that I have had several Oracle training courses in the past, do these count? If not, no problem because I am attending the Replication course at the end of next month. But for this course to count, do I have to have all the OCP exams passed prior to taking the course?

Answer 1

355099 OK, none of the courses I have taken were for 9i, only for 8i and 7. So I see I need to take the approved 9i courses. No problem, because I am planning to take the replication course at the end of next month, it is listed as one of the approved 91 DBA courses.
By tricky, yes of course only one answer is correct. Though they make it look like at first glance that several answers are correct. After looking closely, you may notice the comma missing. Yes defiantly we should be able to identify the syntax errors, but from experience Oracle does an okay job identifying those kinds of errors at compile time (but not dynamic SQL). Of which are easily fixed.
Similar: I meant similar, like comparable. Like are they as tricky as the practice test? I don’t mean they are difficult.
404045 I don’t think the course needs to be taken after you have completed the OCA certification, reason being is that the Oracle courses that count towards the DBA include many different courses of which SQL and Fundamentals I courses are listed.
All in all, I have about 15 years experience with Oracle DBA tasks. I use Multimaster Replication (asynchronous propagation) extensively, and am very failure with SQL and PRO*C. Thanks for your input guys/gals.