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

"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:<3e0dbee3$0$230$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com>...
> "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?
>
> I see you don't have that many helpful answers - though a good discussion
> has resulted.
>
> Where did you get the quote above? From Oracle or some internet source?

http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/index.html?onlinetest.html

And click on the link for the online testing overview, if this comes up without java weirdness.

>
> If true then it clearly does devalue the exam. I'm not sure that it devalues
> the certification - I can't imagine that the failure rate for SQL was all
> that high in the first place.

SQL exam in particular is amenable to being passed without "getting it," in my observational experience.

>
>
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