Re: Advice on OCP Exams

On Sun, 20 Jan 3900 10:16:13, Liz Reen <Liz_at_reading.news> wrote:

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> I doubt every one wants certification. My company certainly doesn't. We would like some
> experience though. Why don't you try what I did when I came to my current position. I
> wanted to learn UNIX. I was a Senior VMS sys admin. Every one wanted both VMS and UNIX.
> I found a place that really needed my VMS skills and was willing to teach me UNIX. When
> I showed that I could pick things up quickly, they decided to turn me into an Oracle DBA.
> It sounds like your a consultant. I'm not sure that you can make the switch as a
> consultant. You may have to become a full time employee. I have yet to meet the firm
> that wanted to educate a consultant. Find a place that wants you as a SQL Server type,
> but is willing to let you play with Oracle. I suspect that if there aren't already a lot
> of interaction between the two products, there will be soon.

There are very few clients out there that would put money into a consultant unless they are planning to hire them or it would be a long term gig. The consulting firm I am with sent me off on a 3 month mainframe training program a year ago. Currently I am waiting to go to a mainframe assignment and in the meantime my consulting firm (also has a line of software development tools for both client/server and mainframe) is making it worth my while to learn new things (in addition to the stuff I already know).

Admittedly I am a anti-MS bigot and have very little desire to really work hard on learning MS products (though I certainly do not plan on going hungry over this issue) but there is more than a few AIX/Oracle shops in my region. So I am into learning Unix systems and Oracle.

Anyway I feel it comes down to this: OCP exams are in no way sufficient to claim Oracle expertise, but I do feel if you have an OCP certification of some of the exams done you would probably be considered to be in a better position to become an expert or at least competent with Oracle (i.e. a lower risk for failure at the job from the employers point of view).

From: Mark A. Framness
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