Re: WTD: Oracle DBA Cert classes w/ Cert pass guarantee - OCP test prep class?

bbcrock_at_hotmail.com (D) wrote in message news:<22e171df.0312222106.69a39231_at_posting.google.com>...
> This kind of reasoning always cracks me up. Getting the OCP will:
>
> a) get me a $5k bonus from my company for becoming an Oracle Certified
> DBA
> b) allow me to bid myself as the Certified Oracle DBA in contracts
> that require the DBA be certified (surely you've bid on such
> contracts) and not pass the work onto others
> c) get me one step further to certify to teach oracle classes (I used
> to be a trainer in the dotcom boom)
>
> need any more reasons?
>
> Don

a small but increasing number of employers want OCPs. Its annoying. The tests are weak. The performance tuning test is TOTALLY inaccurate. On the developer side, the pl/sql test is flat out stupid.

Dont take courses, they are a complete waste of money. Study yourself. Here is what I did.

I got the Sybex books(not great, but not bad). For each test, I read the corresponding OTN doc(i didnt read the sql reference, I have a life after all).
I took all the questions I got wrong on the practice tests and the ones in each chapter and typed them up in short hand and notepad and studied from that. MUCH easier than re-reading the books.

then i played around on my PC at home. Do one test at a time. Dont do all of them. They are not that hard. You only need 68-70% correct. That is not much.

Those OCP classes are such a waste of money. Just ask to sit in on one. Its mainly people with NO experience who think they will get jobs(they wont get interviews) and you go at the pace of the least common denominator. Complete waste of money.
>
> "Ana C. Dent" <anacedent_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<1VpFb.38453$BQ5.28597@fed1read03>...
> > D wrote:
> > WHY?
> >
> > What will having an OCP do for you?
Received on Tue Dec 23 2003 - 14:24:09 CET