I am looking for practice test PDFs for the Oracle Database SQL Associate (1Z0-071) exam. I've completed my training and now need mock tests to assess my knowledge before taking the real exam. If... More on forums.oracle.com

I have not taken this exam yet. I started my preparation in October 2023, hoping to pass the exam within a month. After 20 days, I realised, it's not that easy. I tried hard to understand SQL with some courses in Udemy. Got a good understanding about SQL. Then, for personal reasons, I couldn't continue the preparation. I restarted after two months in January 2024.I felt that It was completely new to me. Forgotten almost everything. From January 1st to July 9th, I am preparing again. Exam dumps are copied from one site by another site. They are not prepared thiugtfully.They are insufficient to meet the complex questions in the exam. We need to have owr own study materials. Steps I would like to suggest. Watch a good course in Udemy. I suggest this course https://www.udemy.com/share/101XT23@hJSJXIXWhlmUT1OXvLY635WtNXJI5bObt4OnGkspLUta3f9bMZGmU8V0WzKRI_6j/ I made a mistake that costed my time heavily. The course is detailed. We can easily follow the concepts. However we will also forget the details. I watched the course two times hoping that it will help me retain my understanding. However I forgot most of what I learnt. Almost two months have been wasted by me by mere watching. Having undertood my mistake, I watched it third time. This time, I installed Oracle Database 19C. I installed SQL Developer. Ran all the queries in the course. This helped me to some extent to remember what I learnt. However, I later undertood It is also inadequate, when I tried the questions from another course in Udemy. Mere running queries can help you get 20% but we need 60% to pass. I started watching the course fourth time. This time I paused the video often. Used the transcript option in Udemy to copy the text version of the lecture to a word document. Modified the sentences to help myself understand better. Inserted the SQL queries wherever required. I wrote my own SQL queries to have still better understanding and included them in the query. This process took three months.  Is it enough? No. This helped me answer the questions playing with SQL queries and their outputs. However, there are a good number of questions related to the strategies we should follow to solve the problems. Also, some questions are from in between the lines. I mean to say,  the questions are related to the minute differences between the objects, SQL statements, their limitations etc. I understood that I need to read the theoritical content about Oracle SQL. 4.I got the book by Steve O Hern. Read the book line by line and word by word. Incorporated the contents from the book into my notes. The notes became double the size.  Is this the end of preparation? Sad No. Though it helped, the questions are still more deeper. I became mad. Where is the content to answer such questions? 5. I asked chatGPT to help me. It was really helpful. I just copied and pasted the questions to ChatGPT. It solved the questions with detailed explanations. It made some mistakes which I pointed out to ChatGPT. In the meantime (by May 2024, I think) ChatGPT was upgraded. It became capable of giving the links to the sources. It was a life saver. The links given by ChatGPT all pointed to Oracle's Documentation. 6.I prepared an index of topics and related link in Oracle's Documentation. 7.Now reading the documentation line by line and word by word. I thought I could pass the exam within 30 days studying 2 hours a day. However, I have been studying for 6 months four hours a day. More on reddit.com

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