Re: New policy on Oracle Certifications
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:06:37 +0100
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They do indeed. But the 12c database certification has its own page https://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=653&get_params=p_id:248 complete with upgrade tab and steps required to upgrade. The two docs are different for the really old exams (below 9). The chap who blogged the link today, also blogged the one exam upgrade path back in April. https://blogs.oracle.com/certification/entry/0856_29
As you might have guessed my database OCP is really old, it has never been worth my while the cost in time and money to cram for another multiple choice exam (and the exam that I would value based on descriptions of the tests - the master exam - has never been valued by the job market). I do have recent experience of certification (for EM) and it hasn't changed my view of the value of the testing much. Would I pay the 220 or so dollars a single exam upgrade would cost me, possibly. I certainly wouldn't pay 500 dollars to do it.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> They give a lot more detail, as well as an example using 9i, at
> https://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=770
>
> For me, aging a cert is nothing more than meaningless admin.
>
> If the cert is tied to a version of the product, and the product ages out
> (eg: Red hat 4, Oracle DB 9i) then the associated cert is not completely
> relevant to most of the industry anyway. However, it is likely the person
> earning the cert has not lost whatever knowledge and the proficiency
> identified by the cert has not technically changed ... although using that
> proficiency may be rusty.
>
> The industry in general would be better off
> generating/ensuring/demonstrating high value of certification, and getting
> customers to understand that value - at which time, the link between cert
> and version becomes intrinsically obvious.
>
> /Hans
>
> On 10/10/2014 7:33 AM, Niall Litchfield wrote:
>
> It would be nice to know what you need to do to upgrade as well. Yes
> there's a link to the recertification requirements, via the usual
> education.oracle.com go to this page to find a link to this page to .. .
> When you get to the pdf though, it suggests that for your 9.2 example the
> upgrade path is 2 exams and therefore 2 fees. If however you go through the
> 12c certification upgrade tab, you only need one exam to upgrade, this was
> in a press release when 12c came out. It would be nice if the story could
> be straight (and the recertification was a single step).
>
> I'm all in favour of what real professions call CPD
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_professional_development>. I'm
> not sold on continual re-certification, nor am I convinced that a multiple
> choice test reasonably measures how current I am with industry trends and
> best practices.
>
>
>
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Oct 10 2014 - 16:06:37 CEST