Re: Outrage that OCP exams are now unproctored - Comments?

Yes, it is unproctored. I've taken it and it is done over the internet, with no checking of identity or whether you 'cheat' or not.

However - it's only one of four exams, and you won't pass the others if you had to cheat on the first. As just one of four exams, just passing this won't get you anywhere, and it's probably just a marketing ploy by Oracle to get you to take the first of the exams, in an easy environment, with the hope being that you'll then go on to do the rest of them.

What's potentially more interesting about the 9i DBA OCP is that you now have to take at least one Oracle University course (9i SQL, DBA Fundamentals I and II, Tuning etc) to qualify for the OCP. This will no doubt be a nice earner for Oracle.

Mark Rittman

http://www.rittman.org

"Don Burleson" <don_at_burleson.cc> wrote in message news:998d28f7.0212250820.5cc2fb6_at_posting.google.com...
> Greetings,
>
> I have heard a rumor that the Oracle9i OCP SQL exam is unproctored:
>
> "The new exam is un-proctored, meaning that you can take the exam
> unsupervised at your own location. If you do not have good internet
> access, proctored exams are delivered in a secure testing environment,
> at an Oracle University Training Center or Authorized Prometric
> Testing Center."
>
> Because there is no guarantee that the person taking the exam is the
> same person who registered for the exam, many DBAs feel that this
> practice degrades the value of Oracle certification, and makes it even
> more worthless than before.
>
> Comments?
Received on Sat Dec 28 2002 - 14:21:35 CST