Not I, never even seen the questions to tell you the truth.  I believe
there's an email address you can raise exam issues with -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  You might want to send this to them to see if they
have more relevant feedback than I'd ever have on this exam.

Pete
"Controlling developers is like herding cats."
Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
"Oh no, it's not.  It's much harder than that!"
Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
 


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all oracle employees? Are any of you involved in the 9i PL/SQL test? I just
took it today and passed it. I didnt study at all. 

Id like to state that it is an incredibly stupid test. Ive been told the
PErformance tuning one is bad also... 

Some gripes:

1. Only package that I was asked about was dbms_lob and of the 66 questions
maybe 5-7 were on this package so about 10%. 

2. 40-50% of the test was on triggers. A bit disproportionate dont you
think? 

3. I was asked about 6-8 questions on how to call procedures and functions
and they slipped in a few defaults to 'trick' you. That is WAY too many. 

4. Nothing on Arrays, PL/SQL tables, Bulk Binds, or dynamic sql. 

5. In my overview it said I need to study the following(but they never asked
me about them) UTL_TCP, UTL_HTTP, dbms_ddl.

DBMS_DDL is antiquated and I cant think of anything I need it for. I wrap
everything in execute immediate(which wasnt on the test). How many people
actually use UTL_TCP and UTL_HTTP anyway? I dont. Far more people use other
features that werent covered. 

im done griping. This was REALLY bad. 

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