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

don_at_burleson.cc (Don Burleson) wrote in
news:998d28f7.0301011837.4514a2a2_at_posting.google.com and I quote:  

> Here is the USA, certification bodies require a Graduate College
> Degree for
>
> 1 - Bar certification (law)
> 2 - Medical certification (board certified MD)
> 3 – Engineering (Civil and EE)

Yeah, but those are very general qualifications. I'm talking more vertical.

>
> Can you imagine the brouhaha if Oracle Corporation required OCPs to
> have a formal education?
>

Well, as always: define "OCP"?

For a DBA, I can't see why a formal education in some related discipline wouldn't be desirable. I sincerely doubt that someone with a degree in ancient egyptology or reaal estate selling would ever become a DBA. Other than as an "OCP"... But I can see an actuary, or an engineer, becoming one.

One problem is we tend to equate OCP with DBA. Nothing is further from the truth. And there should not only be a formal recognition of DBA. Designers, programmers, analysts, all are more than overdue for some form of industry recognition. In a little more than just the "flavour-of-the-jour" in technology or the latest version of whatever.

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Nuno Souto
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