Re: seeking OCP advice

No need to re-take courses.
Just download the practice exams, and see if you can do it. Study what you don't know(the practice exam gives you a real heads up on what you don't yet know). The courses are really just to get you started and the real lesson is in experience, which you have, and can get. Go for it.
Al

Ed Stevens wrote:

> Subject: seeking OCP advice
>
> I am seeking advice on the best route to certification in the DBA
> track. Technically (by job title) I have been working as a DBA for 3
> years, but for the last 18 to 24 months my actual job assignments have
> been a variety of non-dba (and often non-Oracle) tasks working on
> infrastructure to support our Oracle databases and c/s and web app
> development. (About the time I was really getting up to speed, we
> hired a much more experienced guru, and he has handled all the real dba
> work since). I have completed the DBA, Backup & Recovery, and SQL*Net
> classes at Oracle's Atlanta training center, but the completion dates
> range from 1 year to 2.5 years ago.
>
> Given this background, how feasable would it be to prepare for the
> tests without going back to the classes? Since I have DBA access to the
> systems at work (on an NT system) I can get all the hands-on practice I
> need, but can't see clear for the $10,000+ it would take to attend all
> the classes again.
>
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> --
> Ed Stevens
> (Opinions are not necessarily those of my
> employer)
>
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Received on Mon May 10 1999 - 17:39:57 CDT