Re: Is Oracle DBA cerificate useless ?!!!!

I have to jump back into this. I am certified in Oracle 7 and 8. I was orginally an Oracle Developer with a little DBA work. Did that for 3 years, and then I did 2 1/2 years of straight DBA work. I started working for a Consulting company that required me to get certified so they could bill more for me. Remember I had done 5 1/2 years in Oracle before taking the test. The test were really easy for me since I had the experience. I have changed jobs again and my new employer said the certification was ok, but what he was really looking at was the experience, now a total of 9 years.

My point in all of this. Certifications can help some, but what MOST employers want is the real world experience. If you have two people with the same amount of experience and one of them has the certification, then that person will win out. Just don't feel that just because you get certified, that you will get that high paying job right away. That is the problem here, people see that DBA's usually make good money, so why not just get certified and make that money too. It takes time and effort, not just certification to get there.

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John Jones
Senior Oracle DBA
Duke University, OIT
john.jones_at_duke.edu
Sam Talebbeik <sam777t_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Folks,

>

> I have posted a couple of questions about getting Oracle DBA certification

> on this news group in the past few days.

>

> So far the feedback that I have gotten has been very negative. One person

> even commented that the DBA training and the exam questions have nothing

> to do with the "actual" DBA work and the Oracle shops really do not care

 who


> has and who does not have a certificate.

>

> I am completely confused and I need more comments from Oracle old timers

> particularly those with a certificate.

>

> Doesn't the certificate actually show that you have the "minimum"

> requirements for a DBA job ? I looked at the course material for the DBA

> and it looks very relevant (PL/SQL, Installation, Perf monitoring, Backup

> and recovery).

>

>    Regards,

>    Sam