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Summary: Practice before exam
Review: Every question comes with complete explanations. This material will help you pass the exams. Practice, practice, practice and pass the exams. Good luck!!
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Summary: Very good practice tests
Review: I bought Sybex study guides and the virtual test center...and I have no problem passing all five tests. I found these practice questions very helpful, they are a little more difficult than the actual tests (The questions come with the study guide are too easy). There are a few errors inside, but if you don't want to invest in other more expensive material like self test software, this one is a good choice.
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Summary: Corrections please!
Review: I have found numerous incorrect statements, explanations and answers for the practice tests. This product was released in May 2001 and as of yet Sybex has no errata or corrections available for download on their website.Since this is a test prep CD it's imperative the information it provides be 100% correct! Errors can be expected when something of this nature is first released but their failure to provide corrections is inexcusable!
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Summary: Not the best product
Review: I used the cd only for the first exam so far, but I have to say that I'm not very pleased with it. Not many questions about PL/SQL and lots about group functions. Further on it would have been nice to get some question numbers, so you can see where you are concerning the timing.
Overall, not a success.
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Summary: Very good practice tests
Review: I've been studying for OCP for about 8 months, and these practice tests are the best. They've helped me pass the first three tests, and I have only two to go. They are great for overall review for the exams. The questions are just as hard, if not harder, than the reat tests, and each question and answer comes with a complete explanation. The practice tests do just as much teaching as entire study guides. The custom test capabilities are a must have if you want to avoid the problems from other practice test software, where you can memorize the questions. I would highly recommend the Virtual Test Center to anyone wanting to become Oracle Certified.
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Summary: Absolutely fantastic!!
Review: I've been studying for OCP for about 8 months, and these practice tests are the best. They've helped me pass the first three tests, and I have only two to go. They are great for overall review for the exams. The questions are just as hard, if not harder, than the reat tests, and each question and answer comes with a complete explanation. The practice tests do just as much teaching as entire study guides. The custom test capabilities are a must have if you want to avoid the problems from other practice test software, where you can memorize the questions. I would highly recommend the Virtual Test Center to anyone wanting to become Oracle Certified.
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Summary: Not the best product
Review: The software contains 1000 test questions 500 per certification exam. I was thinking this would be great I can create the random tests with 20 or so questions each time. When you create a random test it gives you most of the same questions each time. Also, some of the syntax on the questions is questionable. I am severely disappointed with this product.
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Summary: Frustrating to use
Review: The software contains 1000 test questions 500 per certification exam. I was thinking this would be great I can create the random tests with 20 or so questions each time. When you create a random test it gives you most of the same questions each time. Also, some of the syntax on the questions is questionable. I am severely disappointed with this product.
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Summary: Info quality great(!), software very poor.
Review: There's no way to mark questions, as there is with premium-quality testing software. The user interface is incredibly klunky and unforgiveably untested: you have to select an answer among radio box choices, and then click two more buttons if you want immediate feedback, and click yet another for the explanation. It uses your web browser as the interface and reads one question at a time from the CD, so it's slow. The questions aren't numbered so you can't tell where you are. After answering the last question (you have no idea it's the last question because the questions are unnumbered), it wraps around to the first question; at that point if you click "grade test" IT ONLY GRADES THAT FIRST QUESTION OUT OF THE SIXTY YOU JUST ANSWERED, AND THERE'S NO WAY TO GO BACK! LOL So it leaves you with no way of knowing how well you did after all that work! They also included unnecessary "bells & whistles" like choices for skins (juvenile, who cares?) and sound effects. Once I was about 2/3 of the way through a test I had done before and remembered all the answers so I clicked "Score Test." It said, "You answered 1 questions out of total 50"! LOL After answering every question in another exam it said, "You answered 14 questions out of total 50." It is easy to unknowingly skip a question without answering it by double-clicking because the questions take so long to load from CD. There's no option to download them to your disk. I had to call their support line to get it to work on my office PC; turns out that was due to Symantec Desktop Firewall. I still give it four stars because the material (for the architecture part) is accurate! Hallelujah! This does not hold for most Oracle test prep products. The questions are also appropriately (sensibly) worded.
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Summary: Info quality great(!), software very poor.
Review: There's no way to mark questions, as there is with premium-quality testing software. The user interface is incredibly klunky and unforgiveably untested: you have to select an answer among radio box choices, and then click two more buttons if you want immediate feedback, and click yet another for the explanation. It uses your web browser as the interface and reads one question at a time from the CD, so it's slow. The questions aren't numbered so you can't tell where you are. After answering the last question (you have no idea it's the last question because the questions are unnumbered), it wraps around to the first question; at that point if you click "grade test" IT ONLY GRADES THAT FIRST QUESTION OUT OF THE SIXTY YOU JUST ANSWERED, AND THERE'S NO WAY TO GO BACK! LOL So it leaves you with no way of knowing how well you did after all that work! They also included unnecessary "bells & whistles" like choices for skins (juvenile, who cares?) and sound effects. Once I was about 2/3 of the way through a test I had done before and remembered all the answers so I clicked "Score Test." It said, "You answered 1 questions out of total 50"! LOL After answering every question in another exam it said, "You answered 14 questions out of total 50." It is easy to unknowingly skip a question without answering it by double-clicking because the questions take so long to load from CD. There's no option to download them to your disk. I had to call their support line to get it to work on my office PC; turns out that was due to Symantec Desktop Firewall. I still give it four stars because the material (for the architecture part) is accurate! Hallelujah! This does not hold for most Oracle test prep products. The questions are also appropriately (sensibly) worded.
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