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

Its smart business,
Someone does the first exam easily, They are 1/4 the way through, so they go, screw it I will get my work to pay for the required Oracle University course, and do the next 3.
Oracle is hoping to attract more people to it.

And the person who took the exam not realising because they cheated in the first one they have to do the next 3 twice each.

As far as the OCP being worth it, I have been a DBA for Approximately 7 years.
and just recently upgraded my certification to 8i (I know I have been lazy).
And by studying I still learnt useful things that I didn't know (or couldn't be bothered learning)

don_at_burleson.cc (Don Burleson) 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 Fri Jan 03 2003 - 17:03:08 CST