Re: Outrage that OCP exams are now unproctored - Comments?

"Don Burleson" <don_at_burleson.cc> wrote in message news:998d28f7.0212250820.5cc2fb6_at_posting.google.com...
> Greetings,
>
> I have heard a rumor that the Oracle9i OCP SQL exam is unproctored:
>
> "The new exam is un-proctored, meaning that you can take the exam
> unsupervised at your own location. If you do not have good internet
> access, proctored exams are delivered in a secure testing environment,
> at an Oracle University Training Center or Authorized Prometric
> Testing Center."
>
> Because there is no guarantee that the person taking the exam is the
> same person who registered for the exam, many DBAs feel that this
> practice degrades the value of Oracle certification, and makes it even
> more worthless than before.
>
> Comments?

I see you don't have that many helpful answers - though a good discussion has resulted.

Where did you get the quote above? From Oracle or some internet source?

If true then it clearly does devalue the exam. I'm not sure that it devalues the certification - I can't imagine that the failure rate for SQL was all that high in the first place.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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