Re: Advice on OCP Exams

Thanks for your advice and for answering my post. I am trying to get real life experience but no no will hire someone with no experience. I hope to get this cert to get my foot in the door and gain experience that way. I has never been my intention to "get rich quick", just to be certified so someone will be willing to give me a start. I understand that I will have to work from the bottom, and I look forward to putting the theory into practice and learning from the Senior Oracle people.

Thank you for answering my question mnma! Thanks for your input everyone!

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:37:55 GMT, mnma_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>Since nobody has really answered your post. I will give my opinion on
>the DBA OCP exams.
>PL/SQL is the hardest, Backup & Recovery is the easiest. Network Admin
>is difficult only in the fact that there are so many questions on a
>small subject (though in real life it causes a lot of problems).
>I went for the OCP without any Oracle experience but lots of RDBMS
>experience. I passed all of the exams on the first go and was able to
>get a job as a DBA within 3 weeks of my last exam at about double my
>old salary.
>It is my experience that while there are a lot of DBA's out there.
>There are very few who are true experts. I find that with the DBA's I
>work with, I am able to contribute positively to my work and I do not
>feel like a newbie.
>The OCP basically says that you know the material that Oracle provides
>for its DBA courses.
>My advice would be to monitor the oracle usenet groups and keep track
>of difficult questions. Also collect as many scripts off of the web as
>possible. Study them and apply them at your work.
>
>Good Luck
>
>mnma
>
>
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Received on Tue Jan 18 2000 - 15:17:19 CST