Study Guide for 1Z0-146: Oracle Database 11g: Advanced PL/SQL (Oracle Certification Prep)

The book contains the bare-bone outline of what you would need to pass the exam. It is surely not enough if you did not have any prior knowledge on the exam topics. The greatest disadvantage as with all other Mr. Morris' preparation guides is complete absence of control questions and tasks. The text is poorly edited, and large chunks of it are just excerpts from respective section of Oracle documentation, sometimes with slight re-wording, sometimes plain copies.On the positive side is that the job of Oracle docs compilation is done for you. It would be much better if the author included references, or at least Oracle document titles.The other positive feature is the book's brevity, but depending on your level and attitude it might be a deficiency as well.All in all what you paid is what you get - the main thing is to understand that this is preparation GUIDE, not the book covering 150% of information you need. For me it worked

This book is concise. The examples are easy to understand. Do the exercises. I find it extremely helpful for my certification study.

Excellent. I fully endorse the existing feedback "This book is a Clear and Straight forward guide for this exam with good and simple examples to try out." and this is true for all the study guides written by Matthew M Morris.

Good summary and highlighting of the main subjects for the exam; studying Oracle documentation is required in parallel with the book.

Not as helpful as i thought it would be.. But anyway for 11$ its a good guide :) Got 85% for my exam.

great book, easy to read and follow.

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I purchased this book few months back, but attended the test only yesterday. My feedback about the book is that, this book alone is not sufficient to pass the exam. Because I got many questions that touched the more inner details of a topic, which this book did not cover. With a 160 odd pages book, this is what you can expect. The best way to prepare if you want to buy this book is, take each explanation from each topic and work them out yourself (as there are very few examples on each topic) and also please refer some other books like "Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Professional Guide by Saurabh K. Gupta" (this book has more details on each topic, but buying this book alone for the purpose of only passing the exam will mean you will take more time to complete your preparation, as this book has lots of content), that has more examples and details for each topic. Also please dont forget to refer Oracle documentation/Third party sites(given in the book) to get more details (like more options of a command, exceptions, etc).I almost made the mistake of relying on only this book, but was fortunate to stumble upon other books/resources in the web. I just scrapped through, got 73%.

The book is good only as a quick reminder for details you need to already know. It foes not go into detail on certain concepts and reasons why things must be done in a certain order, i.e. It shows you prep for tracing but doesn't explain the various steps in the code displayed. You need at least 1 reference textbook to assist each topic it covers in detail to learn it for the exam

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It summarizes all the topic covered in the exam, but doesn't go into detail or give many examples on the different topics.Unfortunately, there seems to be no other book available specifically for this exam.Reading this book end to end, will let you pass the exam, but will not give you any practical knowledge.

This is my third guide by Mathew, I really enjoyed the effort he put on both the guide and the tests. It's definitely an invaluable support for the path to the certification!