Professional development - OCA/OCP

Hello
I'm looking at doing my OCA/OCP certifications and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations or suggestions for good training companies to do them with in the UK?
I've had a look at QA Training, and they seem to be pretty good, and I know there's the oracle university.
I just want to make sure I do them with a reputable firm if it's not oracle themselves...
Cheers
David

The OCP Oracle 10g New Features for Administrators Study Guide, SBEX
has 8 Chapters of instruction, 25 questions / chapter, and 2 practice tests. Very helpful. SBEX box self study guides are a favorite of OCP test takers.

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