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It is a good book to use as preparation tool for Oracle 9i Fundamentals I. I like the style of the book. It is well-organized. With this book it took me a month and half to get prepared for the exam. And I passed my exam 1z0-031 on first attempt. I will definitely recommend this book to other OCP candidates.
For my exam I also used the Oracle Press book Exam Guide as supplement. The oracle press book exam guide has many practice exam questions that I used.

DeKalb, IL US

Compared to the excellent coverage of OCA exam objectives by Sybex's Study Guide for 1Z0-007, this titles does not deliver at all. I used this guide to prepare for the exam along with the Oracle Press title and found that the latter covers the exam material in much more detail. Even the level of practice questions in the Sybex study guide are nowhere even near the level of difficulty the real exam poses. These questions should be revised keeping in view the test format (Basic/Mastery Sections). Even the coverage of materials is superficial and not enough to give the candidate the confidence to take the exam. My suggestion would be to use another book along with this study guide (I strongly recommend the Oracle Press title - the CD has some excellent questions).

I found this book very helpful for my OCA exams. I passed my first 2 exams for Oracle DBA with 98% and 86% refering to this book (along with some other reference materials). The exercises and the tests in this book gave a very good picture of the real exam and were very similar to it. But I wouldn't advise on relying completely on this book.Some other reference is necessary.