RE: Re: OCP

Pete - You've made my day. We had some education money to use or lose last fall, and the 9i New Features class was offered locally. I thought I might be able to take the upgrade class even though I hadn't completed the 8i route. December is not a good month for finding study time, so I shelved that idea. I'm glad I didn't waste time cramming for a test I might not have been qualified for. The 50% comment jolted me because I could probably have made that without cramming.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I think there are a couple of ways you can do this. Firstly, if you ring Prometric and try to register for the 9i Upgrade exam. IIRC, they'll ask you for your SSN and their system should reject you if you don't have the necessary pre-req certification. Secondly, you can send an email to ocpexam_ww_at_oracle.com <mailto:ocpexam_ww_at_oracle.com> . From what it says on http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/faq/index.html?faq8.html <http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/faq/index.html?faq8.html> , we're attempting to build an automated way of doing this. Problem is of course that all the records are actually held by Prometric as an independent body, so there may be legal issues with Oracle having a way to access that.  

As for the 50% passing score, sorry that's just wrong. As you can see here ( http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/index.html?dba9i_exam.html <http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/index.html?dba9i_exam.html> ), the passing score for that exam is 70%.  

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Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA  

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Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:39 AM
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So how can you check the status of your 8i OCP so you can sign up for the 9i OCP upgrade exam?

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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

>>> You only need to get 50% of the questions right on the upgrade tests.

Why not set the goal to it get 100% right? ;)

• Kirti

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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I didnt realize that you might be able to do the 8i one without handing $2k to oracle for their class and taking the upgrade exams is a better path.

anyone know if this is possible? You only need to get 50% of the questions right on the upgrade tests.

>
> From: "Darrell Landrum" <dlandrum_at_zalecorp.com>
> Date: 2003/03/12 Wed AM 07:48:43 EST
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Subject: Re: OCP
>
> Jay,
>
> One thing to consider is that just starting the 9i track and if you've not
taken any OCP exams prior to September of 2002, there is a requirement to attend one 9i training class in addition to the exams. However (you'll probably need to call Oracle to get a solid answer to this), if you can still take the 8i track with no classroom training and then take the 9i upgrade exam (if they allow this with no classroom training), this would be your least expensive route since the classes are quite expensive. The down side is a total of six exams instead of just four.

> If your company is willing to send you to one of the 9i classes, I would
take advantage of that and just go for the 9i track.

>
> Good luck!
> Darrell
>
>

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