Re: Advice on OCP Exams

On Thu, 1 Jan 1970 02:59:59, design <design_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

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> If you have no experience with Oracle, get some.
> I don't know why people think that studying a bunch of books to get
> "certified" on something they have no experience with is a good thing.
> To me, alls it shows is that you can study and take and pass a few
> tests. Big deal.

Unfortunately those of us working towards certification face the classical catch-22 here. Don't have Oracle CP credentials no job for you, Oh-oh now you want OCP but you don't have experience no way. See what I am saying? Granted I do agree with you that learning the stuff straight from the book and other materials is an empty sort of thing but short of springing for personal Oracle (and then a lot of people will complain that can not give the right kind of experience) what can one do?

> Seems like more and more people are posting saying they don't have Oracle
> experience but are taking the OCP exams. Hmmm...
> will the certification eventually be diminished to the level of Novel?
> Oracle should strive to be more like the Cisco certification -- it'll
> actually mean something.
>
> TBone wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I was wondering if anyone could offer me some advice. I have just
> > passed the PL/SQL exam for the Oracle8 track and i would like to know
> > how hard the other exams are in relation to this one. With no prior
> > programming experience, I found it to be quite challenging. Which
> > exams did you guys find the hardest and easiest. Thanks for any
> > advice you can give "the new guy"
> >
> > I really apreciate it!
> >
> > Bye
>

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