From: "Daniel A. Morgan" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: How do you think about performance-based certification? Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 06:29:07 -0700 Organization: EXE Message-ID: <3B470EA3.11DCFE17@exesolutions.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yabetcha.drizzle.com!unknown@win16.drizzle.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 23 Dino Hsu wrote: > Dear all, > > A new association called The Field Certified Professional Association > (FCPA) has been established as in this piece of news: > > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/fcpa.html > > This organization promotes hands-on performance tests (as done in CCIE > exams) in addition to the dominating multiple choice tests. > Unfortunately, Oracle hasn't become a member yet, is it why OCP's are > not convincing enough as proof of skills? How do you think about this? > > Dino It is 50% of it for me. The other part is that these exams rarely deal with the actual requirements of the job. Many exam questions, at least to me, are more like playing a game of trivia: What obscure information can we make someone learn? Daniel A. Morgan