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Oracle certification – self study options

I am considering taking a self study path to peruse the OCA & OCP certifications. However, I find the self study options that Oracle provides to be quite confusing. It looks like they offer over 14 self study CDs, all costing several hundred dollars apiece.

My question is quite simple, what self study material do you recommend in order to prepare for OCA/OCP (books/cd courses) certs? Please include any other information that I may find helpful in deciding my certification approach.

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To sujit_kumar:
Some really good links. These will keep me busy for awhile!

I think my knowledge of SQL/ PL-SQL is fairly good, I will need to focus mainly on topics such as backup/recovery, security, privileges, etc. -- and these links seem to have some really good resources.

To schwertner:
Thanks for the info, I was not aware of the one course rule (might be different in Canada), I will have to investigate it. The link (www.selftest.com) does not work and also, I have not found any good books (Sybex or any) on 10g.

Thanks for your replys.