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

Certification provides an opportunity to show that you can do something with Oracle.

Don't listen to the negative feedback. Get certified and stay certified and be done with it.

Frank Hubeny

Sam Talebbeik wrote:

> 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 Thu Jun 14 2001 - 02:18:26 CDT