{"id":1085,"date":"2010-12-21T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T22:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2011-03-04T09:51:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:51:53","slug":"oracle-11g-dba-ocp-%e2%80%93-passed-1z0-050-oracle-database-11g-new-features-for-administrators-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Oracle 11g DBA OCP \u2013 Passed 1Z0-050, Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve been working on getting my Oracle certifications current, I kept studying after I passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1057\">10g upgrade test<\/a> a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 I passed the 11g upgrade test today, 2 weeks later.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a pretty fast turnaround time, I don&#8217;t recommend it.\u00a0 It worked for me because I have a solid Oracle background.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Porter_OCP_DBA_11g.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1083\" title=\"OCP_ODb11gAdmin_clr\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/OCP_ODb11gAdmin_clr.gif\" alt=\"OCP_ODb11gAdmin_clr\" width=\"142\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This one was typical.\u00a0 An hour and a half to do sixty-ish questions.\u00a0 I usually prepare by getting a big fat book, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Database-Features-Administrators-1Z0-050-Osborne\/dp\/0071496823\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1293057710&amp;sr=8-2\">the &#8220;official&#8221; book<\/a> got really crappy reviews, so I didn&#8217;t buy it.\u00a0 Although not specifically for the 1Z0-050 11g upgrade test, I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/OCP-Database-Administrator-Certified-Professional\/dp\/0470395133\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1293057591&amp;sr=8-3\">this 11g book<\/a>, which has great stuff on ASM.\u00a0 I also spent a lot of time online, reading Oracle docs.\u00a0 I did get another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selftestsoftware.com\/product.aspx?product_id=1Z0-050\">practice exam from Kaplan Self Test<\/a>, they are pretty good, something like the real exam.\u00a0 I literally took the practice exam like 80 times, until I got a 100% almost every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve been working on getting my Oracle certifications current, I kept studying after I passed the 10g upgrade test a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 I passed the 11g upgrade test today, 2 weeks later.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a pretty fast turnaround&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}