Re: new fuel for this thread - Oracle Ceritified Master

Anyone ever considered about OCM ? looks like damn expensive to me - but with hands on practice based examination ...

Oracle Certified Master
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"Justin John" <DontBotherwith_at_fake.ca> wrote in message news:GYG58.9772$DE3.1761608_at_news20.bellglobal.com...
> Interesting opion I read from
> http://www.dbasupport.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=20359
> Maybe there are certain degrees of truth in it.
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> A friend of mine said to me most the sr. dbas are not certified, they
hates
> people certified and suggest I don't put certification on my cv.
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> I am a senior DBA and I am certified. I was in an OPS seminar recently

where


> there were senior DBAs from several Scandinavian countries, most were

> certified. I have met non-certified senior DBAs, they are mostly people

who


> got into the business when there was no certification, they simply know

how


> to do the daily tasks, but they don't know all possibilities and methods

> Oracle offers. If they want to become certified, they will have to learn

all


> the stuff. They might not want to do that because they might not need it

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> and you see, there is always the chance that they fail the exam. Imagine

> such a senior DBA coming to work after the exam, all the guys asking:

Well,


> how did it go?, and he say: Well, I did fail. How will that reflect on his

> reputation? An Oracle employee from a central European country told me

once


> that this fear of not passing the exam is the reason why some Oracle

> employees do not attend the exams. You know, not everybody passes the OCP

> exams :-)

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