Re: Advice on OCP Exams

On Thu, 1 Jan 1970 02:59:59, design <design_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> If you have no experience with Oracle, get some.
> I don't know why people think that studying a bunch of books to get
> "certified" on something they have no experience with is a good thing.
> To me, alls it shows is that you can study and take and pass a few
> tests. Big deal.
> Seems like more and more people are posting saying they don't have Oracle
> experience but are taking the OCP exams. Hmmm...
> will the certification eventually be diminished to the level of Novel?
> Oracle should strive to be more like the Cisco certification -- it'll
> actually mean something.

Some of this is going to be repeated from another post but live with it!

Catch 22 your first proposition. How to get experience when no one will hire you unless you have OCP credentials of some sort? Springing for personal Oracle is fine but many people (and rightfully so) will point out that personal oracle is no substitute for working with & on real live production systems.

In my case I have some experience working with DB/2 and SQL Server 6.5 (hated it) and messing around with personal Oracle. In fact I had been turned down on a consulting assignment because of my lack of credentials with Oracle (not a problem for me picking it up but the client did not want to mess with that) so I embarked upon the OCP track while I do not believe I'll be able to finish it w/o significant on the job training it appears the first exam can be done just fine w/o significant on the job experience.  The app developer track, as a whole, appears to be the same way. DBA track I have yet to seriously look at.

From: Mark A. Framness
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