Product Description

This book covers the first "Fundamentals" exam (test 700 (previously test 516)) an individual needs to pass in order to become DB2 UDB Version 8.1 certified. Written by a DB2 UDB Certified author who worked directly with the DB2 UDB Version 8.1 Certification Exam development team and reviewed by the IBM Data Management Certification Program Manager, each book is guaranteed to provide the reader with all of the information needed to pass the V8.1 Certification test 700. Exam-like questions and answers are provided at the end of each chapter and information explaining why each answer provided is correct accompanies every answer given. This is a must-have for any DBA taking the first certification exam.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #855305 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

From the Back Cover

IBM DB2 Universal Database Certification gives you a powerfuladvantage in the marketplace for expertise on the world’s #1enterprise database platform. Passing IBM DB2 UDB V8.1 FamilyFundamentals Exam 700 earns you the IBM Certified Database Associatecertification and is the prerequisite for all intermediate and follow-oncertifications.

In this book, Roger E. Sanders—one ofthe world’s leading DB2 UDB experts, and an active participant inIBM’s DB2 UDB exam development process—covers everything youneed to know to pass DB2 UDB V8.1 Exam 700. Sanders covers every examobjective, beginning with a review of the DB2 family of tools andproducts, as well as fundamental database concepts such as SQL and dataconsistency.

This comprehensive study guide walks youstep-by-step through deployment planning; database security; SQL; DB2database object creation and management; database concurrency; and muchmore. Every chapter contains an extensive set of practice questionsclosely modeled on the actual exam, along with carefully explainedanswers. Coverage includes:

• Creating and deploying DB2 UDB databases
• Databaseobjects and IBM’s tools for creating, accessing, and manipulatingthem
• Protecting data: controlling access with authentication,authorities, and privileges
• Options and alternatives foraccessing DB2 data
• Using SQL to work with data objects such astables, views, and indexes
• Concurrency: maintaining dataintegrity and consistency in single- and multi-userenvironments

Whatever DB2 certification you’re planning to pursue, DB2 Exam700 is the foundation—and DB2 UDB V8.1 Certification Exam 700Study Guide is the solution.

• The definitive DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamentals exam (Exam 700)preparation guide— straight from IBM
• Planning, security, data access, data objects, concurrency,management tools, SQL, and more
• Extensive sample questions based on the actual exam’s formatand approach
• Authoritative coverage of the DB2 exam and certificationprocess
• By Roger Sanders, best-selling DB2 UDB author andactive participant in IBM’s exam development process

About the Author

Roger Sanders is a Database Performance Engineer with Network Appliance, Inc. He has been designing and programming software applications for IBM PCs for more than 15 years and he has worked with the DB2 Universal Database and its predecessors for the past 10 years. He has written several computer magazine articles, authored a tutorial on Database Concurrency for IBM's DeveloperWorks web site, presented at three IDUG conferences, and is the author of seven DB2 titles (073842522, 0072133759 (best-selling all-in-one exam guide), 0071353895, 007353925, 0071345728, 0070580871, 007057725). Sanders should receive 4 Version 8 certifications before the first Version 8 book even hits the market.

Customer Reviews

Go to the source and learn it the IBM way.
Bought the book on a Sunday and read it cover to cover in 6 hours. Make sure that you do the quiz at the end of each chapter. It is important to understand the reasoning behind the answer. This book reads easily and covers all the material on the test. Questions on the actual test are very similar to the type of questions in the book. The book also points you to the location for free practice test.

This book helped me pass the test with 95% (you need 61% to pass) a day later.

All You Need
With any large commercial software package that has books devoted to teaching it, invariably the vendor will offer an exam. The vendor's stamp of approval on a successful passing grade has a built-in cachet. Well IBM's dB2 is one of the oldest major packages, and it certainly has exams. As is typical in these things, IBM also offers a book on exam preparation.

Naturally comprehensive. Has test questions AND answers. It does not each the theory of relational databases. You need to be clear on this. Now it certainly shows the many SQL options that IBM has implemented in dB2. But here also, you need to know that the book does not really teach SQL either. You are expected to already know SQL and have enough familiarity with dB2. The intent here is to cover the topics that will be in the exam, and do this well enough so that you can find any gaps in your knowledge and remedy these. The focus is strictly utilitarian. Lest you think this is too restrictive, let me note that it is often so with such books, and not just by IBM.

You might be encouraged to know that the book covers just the introductory certification. More advanced exams are outside its purview. For example, in a companion IBM text, "DB2 Version 8 - The Official Guide" by Zikopoulous et al, you can find more difficult topics to master. But if you are time constrained, the Study Guide will be better value.

Great Book
If you are planning on taking exam 700 this is the book for you. I took the exam today and to me it feels like the author wrote the actual exam. The practice tests on the book are very similar to the real test, the only thing to watch out are for are that the actual question is a little bit of a variation from your practice test for example on the practice test the VIEW is created using WITH CHECK OPTION but on the real test that option is not there. The only reason I give this book a rating of 4 is that I still believe that couple of review questions on the text book is still wrong. Be sure to take the practice tests on the IBM website, trust me it will help you...