Re: The point of Oracle certification

Hi Sted,

The point of Oracle certification is to have a globally standardised program that filters out the pretenders ensuring only proficient, skilful and knowledgeable DBAs (and developers) can achieve the required status.

The point of Oracle certification is that IT managers and recruitment agencies can look at the certification level as a *guaranteed* way of ensuring they hire quality, skilled professionals.

The current problem is Oracle certification is not achieving these goals. It's actually not even close to achieving these goals. And Oracle themselves are admitting that the those going through OCP are not necessarily of a suitable standard by the various changes they are implementing. Some of these changes are negative (such as the move towards having to attend one Oracle course) and some of these changes are potentially positive (such as the Master Certification Program where you have to actually complete real life like scenarios).

Until both Oracle professionals and IT managers embrace certification and until the filter process is more effective and yes, you must *really* know your stuff to pass certification, then it will ultimately be a doomed exercise.

Having Oracle Certified Professional does look nice and adds a bit of colour to the business card though :)

Richard

"Sted Alana" <Sted_Alana_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3d2828e8$1_1_at_news.iprimus.com.au...
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> What is the point of Oracle certifications? lets face it, they are
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> and will become redundant in years. For example, a person who is Oracle 8i
> certified is now out of date because of the release of Oracle 9i. Why
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> someone pay to get re-certified to keep in tune with Oracle technology? My
> reasoning is that people get certified and recertified because their
company
> pays them to get certified (i.e. they already have a job).
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> Sted
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Received on Mon Jul 08 2002 - 06:23:43 CDT