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R11i and R12 EBS Essentials - What's the Diff?

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Several blog readers are preparing for the EBS Essentials exam. A popular question is which exam to write - 1Z0 11i EBS Essentials or 1Z0-204 R12 EBS Essentials?
Depending on your experience and exposure to 11i and to a greater extent to R12, you can answer the question yourself.

Among the more adventurous amongst us, some are preparing to write the R12 beta exam as well. One assumes that they are writing the 1Z0-204 exam before the R12 betas. Others have a longer planning horizon of getting up to speed with R12, writing the 1Z0-204 exam to confirm their R12 knowledge foundation and then proceeding with R12 production exams. Many are deciding whether to certify on 11i or wait till the R12 production exams arrive. For all these groups, a common question is - R11i and R12 EBS Essentials exam: What's the Difference?

Let's start answering that question by looking at the Oracle University courses the exams are based on. Though the exams carry the same name, 1Z0-200 is based on the 2 day training: 11i E-Business Suite Essentials for Implementers and 1Z0-204 is based on the 3 day training: R12 Oracle E-Business Suite Essentials for Implementers. Not surprisingly, there are quite a few additions in the exam content for R12 (1Z0-204).

There is a new exam topic to start with - Navigating in R12 Oracle Applications. This topic includes logging in to Oracle Applications, navigating from Personal Home Page (PHP), choosing a responsibility,creating favorites and setting preferences, using forms and menus, entering and searching data, running programs and reports and accessing online help. The 'swan' interface would be the first of many new R12 features one would come across as well as additional options for preference settings.

The next exam topic is 'Introduction to Oracle Applications R12' which corresponds to the 'Overview of Overview of 11i10 E-Business Suite'. The topic on 'Shared Entities and Integration' and 'Fundamentals of Workflows and Alerts' remains unchanged.

'Fundamentals of System Administration' mentions the new R12 Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model when describing layers of access control in Oracle Applications security, defining function security and data security.

'Fundamentals of Flexfields' mentions R12 enhancements to flexfields as one of the sub-topics.

'Fundamentals of Multi-org' has undergone a great change due to R12. Additional sub-topics include the new R12 definition of Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC), setting multi-org preferences, enhanced multi-org reporting and last but not the least Sub-ledger Accounting (SLA) concepts.

'Oracle Business Intelligence Products Overview' now replaces the 11i Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) topic. Apart from DBI, one has to know about Oracle Fusion Business Intelligence (assuming it is OBIEE here) and identify the features of embedded dashboards.

Even if you have passed the 1Z0-200 exam, the 1Z0-204 exam would indeed require some additional reading. A good reference book for the EBS R12 exam is "The Release 12 Primer - Shining a Light on the Release 12 World" which is available online here.


Over the next two weeks, Nano9s (set of nine questions to answer while you are having your morning tea or coffee) would be posted on the 1Z0-204 new R12 topics that were discussed above. You would be able to judge your R12 exam preparedness well in advance.

Free download link of Oracle Certification:http://www.mcse.cc/down/KillTest1z0-031.pdf

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