An all-in-one study guide prepares you for the updated Oracle Certified Associate certification

It's been nearly six years since Oracle updated its cornerstone database software, making the demand for a comprehensive study guide for the OCA 12c certification a top priority. This resource answers that demand. Packed with invaluable insight, chapter review questions, bonus practice exams, hundreds of electronic flashcards, and a searchable glossary of terms, this study guide prepares you for the challenging Oracle certification exams.

• Provides you with a solid understanding of restricting and sorting data
• Walks you through using conversion functions and conditional expressions
• Addresses displaying data from multiple tables, manipulating data, database maintenance, and database backups and recovery
• Explores the Oracle database architecture and discusses preparing the database environment, creating an Oracle database, and managing the Oracle instance
• Focuses on administering and implementing user security

This must-have study guide thoroughly prepares you to take the dramatically updated Oracle 12c OCA exams.

Biju Thomas OCA, OCP, is a Senior Oracle Solutions Architect with more than 20 years of Oracle development and database management experience. He has strong skills in database design and administration, performance tuning, and solution architecture. He has coauthored six Oracle Sybex certification books.