Re: Backup and Recovery Certification Exam

Greetings,

Having just finished the 3rd of 4 OCP exams, I add the following:

I view the OCP exams in a light similar to that of a BS degree from college. In that I mean, you paid $ and you may have learned enough of the material to pass tests, however may or may not be able to apply it in the real world.

OCP certicifiation combined with real world exp is good. Same as BS degree with exp.

OCP is at least better than the "Masters of Technology" they offer. There you just have to be physically present in all of the classes (no tests) and whammo you are a "Master of Technology".

Regards

On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 01:12:51 +0800, "S S Wan" <sswan_at_hongkong.com.NOSPAM> wrote:

>Me too is disappointed by the OCP exams.
>
>I am already a Certified DBA. I thought the OCP exam was
>something like Cisco CCIE, but it in turn is a Microsoft MSCE
>-- anyone who has the training materials can pass -- no need of
>in-depth knowledge, no need of real fighting experience.
>
>I really doubt how 'representative' it is and why it costs that much.
>
>
>Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com> wrote in message
>news:8GTM2.752$88.30187_at_news14.ispnews.com...
>> A strange thing happened when I took the exam yesterday. Out of sixty
>> questions I had read about 10% would be on export/import. And there were
>> six questions on that topic.
>> Three of them were specific questions about the "direct" parameter in
>> export. One question involved "direct" in a more general way. There were
>> no questions on import. There were no questions on export modes. There
>> were no questions on complete/cumulative/incremental backups. And there
>> were no questions on what is exportable. So the test really made no
>effort
>> to find out what I knew about export/import.
>> My guess is that there is a large database of questions on each subject
>> and a certain number in each area are selected randomly for the test. So
>> you can get this bunching in certain areas.
>> Has anyone else had this experience?
>> If my guess is right, do you think random selection of questions
>provides
>> a better test than one where a knowledgable person picked the questions?
>>
>> Van
>>
>>
>
Received on Mon Apr 05 1999 - 12:48:00 CDT