After 1Z0-047

This was my first certification with Oracle. The certification interface itself is very nice. A simple app that provides everything that's needed. Questions on the other hand... their quality is poor. Grammatical part should be improved. Authors should use commas to provide syntactically correct and clear sentences (for example "There are two people, George and Harry. Say his name." is not clear as it does not specify who does the question relate to). Due to the kind of my work I'm catching even small problems. Like invalid variable formats, wrong apostrophe characters... there are plenty of such bugs in the questions. If something is unclear - I tend to point it out. For me both the sentences: a) George and Harry are working in my company. b) Harry and George are working in my company. are equal (that's not the case for question authors). Question "mark all best answers" is wrong in its roots - best answers in opinion of who?. If you dare to put traps into a question (ex. put a comma instead of a dot and ask to point out what's wrong with it) then you should not make such mistakes in other questions (seems that authors can not see any difference between dot, comma, dash, apostrophe, citation start and citation end, ...). I like Oracle as a product. It is being developed for a long time already and is very "coherent" in its implementation. I admire it. But the questions were created by some people - and that's not the same. Next time I would just read leaked questions, would try to understand their nature and... think about the certification as necessary evil. It does not prove that you have the knowledge. It proves only that you answered in the same as author wanted (not necessary correctly) to at least 60% of the questions. My results? I passed. Having 90% of the scores. The 10% of incorrect questions were asked incorrectly - in most of the cases the questions had their second bottom. Something that is conflicting with my knowledge about the inner working of Oracle. I had to give a wrong answer in some cases - when there was no correct answer to choose. Some questions had 1 incorrect answer (not matching the requirement given) and 3 answers correct depending on the question's interpretation. Some had 3 answers that had syntax issues and were not matching the need, while "correct" answer was true only under several circumstances (while false in other). I can tell this one thing: some questions in 1Z0-047 sux while some are really nice and checking the actual knowledge of a student.