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

Its not useless as long as you have (or at least doing) real world experience to try out the things learned whiclst doing your certification.

Look at it this way, if someone picks up your CV, sees OCP DBA and 4 months work experience, they will probably snigger a bit.

Another person with 5 years DBA experience and not necessarily passed or even taken OCP will hold a lot more street cred.

The majority of the OCP exams are multi choice so after lots of practise, you can 'memorise' most of the answers. If you have no DBA experience, at least study hard around the issues in each question. It will give you a good grounding later on.

Mark

sam777t_at_yahoo.com (Sam Talebbeik) wrote in message news:<9ec3a1ef.0106111411.574eac78_at_posting.google.com>...
> 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
Received on Wed Jun 13 2001 - 10:20:32 CDT