| Oracle Database Implementation Specialist 1Z0-514 vs 1Z0-497 [message #612571] |
Tue, 22 April 2014 02:47  |
rleishman
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Just doing my annual rounds of the Oracle Certification web site and found the new 12c exam for Database Certified Implementation Specialist.
I did the exam for 11g (1Z0-514). As a developer, I felt I could highly recommend this exam to other developers to bridge the knowledge gap with DBAs, who all too often have poor dev skills. Even better, the 2-Day DBA tutorial in the online manuals is tailor made for the exam - all the topics presented in the same order as the exam topics.
Imagine my surprise at seeing the scope of the 12c version (1Z0-497). It seems to have at least 50% new topics and a lot of the old topics have been dropped or rearranged in a pattern that could most politely be described as "random". Worse, the 2-Day DBA tutorial has not been (appreciably) updated - it still matches the 11g exam structure.
Anyone know what Oracle is playing at here? Did they just write-off the 11g exam as "too much like OCA DBA" and start from scratch? Or is the new exam much the same as the old one with a light smattering of new-features questions?
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