Are the Questions Randomised?
Two shuffles sit behind every DBExam sitting rather than one. The questions are drawn from the pool behind your Oracle exam in a sequence that is not fixed, and inside each question the answer options are reordered as well, so the right choice does not keep its place. Begin the same exam again and both are shuffled afresh.
That pair of shuffles is deliberate, and it settles two practical things: how a second attempt behaves, and how faithfully your review reads back afterwards. Both are worth spelling out.
Both the Oracle Draw and Its Options Are Shuffled
The first shuffle is the draw: each sitting takes its questions from the wider bank in an order that is not set in advance, so you seldom meet them in the same run twice. The second is the option order within a question — an item on resumable space allocation that offers four settings presents those four in a reordered list each time it appears. The right choice that opened at the top of the list one time can turn up last the next, so its position on screen tells you nothing, and the same holds for where a familiar question falls in the sequence. What is left to answer from is the reasoning, which is exactly the intent.
A Retake Reorders the Same Oracle Bank
Sit an Oracle exam a second time and both shuffles run again: a new draw order and freshly ordered options. What that does not buy you is an entirely new set of questions — the bank holds only so many, so a retake can bring back items you have already met, re-sorted rather than swapped out. That is no fault; meeting a well-judged question again, cold and in a new place, is part of how the practice does its work. And when you reopen the sitting to study it, the option order is frozen as you met it and replayed unchanged, so nothing has shifted between sitting the question and reviewing it. Why that review also marks and explains each answer is taken up on its own page.
So the questions arrive shuffled, each item’s options arrive shuffled, and both are redrawn on every retake, while the order you actually sat is kept for the review — with the one plain limit that a new arrangement is not a new bank. The shuffle is there so a score reflects your grasp of the Oracle material and not a memory of one layout.
