Here is the summary of the 000-705 exam preparation and experience.
1. 3 days of IBM DWE V9 bootcamp
Hmmm, not that relevant to the 705 exam, more like IBM try to equip its' business partners presales skills on the new DB2 DWE. It covers topics like the new Design Studio, Intelligent Miner, Cube making and etc.
2. 1 day of 705 exam workshop
It is like a last minute top-up of the knowledge pertaining to the 705 exam objectives. The instructor covers the test objectives one by one, and goes through some sample questions.
3. Self study
Got myself the copy of study guide from IBM web site for BI Designer exam version 7, most of the concepts and theories are still applicable.
Found a few excerpts from the book
"Business Intelligence for the Enterprise",
ISBN: 0-13-141303-1
This book is only 240 pages and it tells you general "stories" of Business Intelligence. Personally, I found it not that useful for the exam, but still something interesting to read about.
Scored a 87.5% or answered 49 questions correct out of total 56 questions.
Hit major bumper in the section "Business Intelligence Data Sourcing/Movement", which mostly the questions on replication and types of data warehouse processing (full, incremental, snapshot, etc).
705 is not a technical paper. If you have decent experience in data warehousing and business intelligence, then questions in the terminology, requirements and architecture are piece of cake.
Again, it is easy to pass, but hard to score and excel.
11 comments:
Hi Eddy,
I have passed exam 700 and now i want to do exam 705.I dont have any work experience neither DW nor BI. Will I be able to do it?
And also I dont have any study material with me.If you have anything could you please share with me.I was planning to purchase the BI for the enterprise book but after going through your comments i am in bit doubt.Could you please advice.
Thanks
gouthami
Hi Gouthami,
Congrats on your passing of exam 700. At this point of time, I strongly not recommend you to take on exam 705 because IBM already announced exam 716 that is better suit for working technical certification on DWE 9.1. And if you aware of IBM recent acquisition of Cognos, it is hard to tell what IBM will do to consolidate it's business intelligence solution suite and thus the corresponding line of certification exams.
Hi Eddy,
Thanks for your kind response. I would definetly consider your recommendations.
Also I will be glad if you could suggest a best option for me.
Thanks,
Gouthami
Your're welcome. If you keen on an edge about DB2 technicality, may consider DB2 exam 731, DBA exam for v9.
Your're welcome. If you keen on an edge about DB2 technicality, may consider DB2 exam 731, DBA exam for v9.
Thanks.I am more interested in BI side so I just looking out for options.
No Prob. if you really into BI industry, maybe can look around on SAS, Cognos or Business Objects certification. These players covered more than 80% of the market. :)
Thanks Eddy for all the information. Could you please share if you have any study material related to BI and DBA exam 731.
What's your email address? I can send to you.
Anyway, it is not directly relevant to exam 731 or 705. I don't have materials pertaining to that.
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