Sunday, July 27, 2008

1Z0-043 ... Passed

I passed the 1Z0-043 exam a week ago. While waiting on Oracle to process my hands-on course requirement I am thinking what should be the next step. Certainly OCM is on my list, but in the mean time I'd like to go for SQL Expert Certificate.

I have been studying very hard, especially the last month. I started with Oracle 10g Certification and Oracle Database 10g OCP Certification All-In-One Exam Guide, but the most of the time I spent reading from the Official Documentation and of course, practicing a lot.

The books I mentioned are good, they cover some basics, but I found they are not quite sufficient to prepare you for the exam. Some of the material is not up to date with the exam topics. The sample tests that come with the books contain some questions out of the scope of the exam. Some of the questions contain answers that are wrong or arguable.

It is very important that while preparing for the exam you practice a lot. It is not very difficult to set up a test environment for each of the topics. It was slightly complicated to create a test environment for ASM on my Ubuntu Linux, but the post from Grégory Guillou How To Set Up Oracle ASM on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon has helped me with that.

Finally, while preparing for the exam, I have improved my skills significantly and learned some new stuff that I didn't have any experience with before (Resource Manager for instance).

3 comments:

Mohan Dutt said...

Hi Mihajlo:
Heartiest Congratulations on passing the 1Z0-043 exam.
May I invite you to please make a guest post on the Oracle Certified Professionals blog (http://ebizocp.blogspot.com) and share your experiences. You may e-mail your guest post to ocp.advisor@gmail.com and I'll publish the same with your byline.
Best wishes,
OCP Advisor

Anonymous said...

Čestitam Mihajlo!
Ajd sad nemoj da staješ, nego punom parom ka Oracle Master!! :)

Pozdrav

Dejan

Anonymous said...

HI all , I need your help , yesterday i have passed my OCP 1Z0-043 ( 96% scoring) but i cant do my submission form because i have prepared with sharing document pdf
Thanks a lot for your help