Re: oracle 8i upgrade exam

I was wrong to say you were incorrect in your initial reply. I should have said let me expand on that.

iggy

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 02:20:31 GMT, Bricklen <bricklenREMOVETHIS_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
>Allow me to clarify what should have been a pretty clear message:
>8 is being retired, not 8i. You have until the end of March (according
>to the message I have received several times from oracle university) to
>upgrade your existing Oracle 8 certification to 8i. Doing so in this
>time frame allows you to write ONE upgrade exam to get 8i cert., as
>opposed to writing all 5 8i exams to get your 8i certification, if you
>don't do it by the end of March.
>
>As you can see if you re-read my post, I never said anything about
>retiring the upgrade exams.
>
>hth
>
>Bricklen
>
>iggy wrote:
>>
>> I don't believe this is correct. The exams scheduled to retire for
>> this track (Oracle 8 DBA) are :
>>
>> Exam 1Z0-013 Oracle8: Database Administration
>> Exam 1Z0-014 Oracle8: Backup and Recovery
>> Exam 1Z0-015 Oracle8: Performance and Tuning
>> Exam 1Z0-016 Oracle8: Network Administration
>>
>> I don't see any annoucement about retiring upgrade exams. This seems
>> to go for DBAs upgrading from 7 to 8 and 8 to 8i.
>>
>> iggy
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:20:36 GMT, Bricklen
>> <bricklenREMOVETHIS_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
>> >1Z0-020 is the upgrade exam for 8 to 8i. You only have until the end of
>> >March to write it though, otherwise you will have to write all 5 8i
>> >exams to get your 8i certification.
>> >
>> >Sathish Balas wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Do i have to write all 5 exams to upgrade from Oracle8 certification to
>> >> Oracle 8i certification Or just the one upgrade exam ?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Sathish B
Received on Fri Mar 01 2002 - 16:30:10 CST