RE: Certification

 With all due respect to all the OCP's out there (of which I am one). Why do you want to be certified? I believe it is a waste of money. I understand that many hiring managers look for that, but it doesn't mean much to me as someone who has been a DBA for 17 years (yep, cut my teeth on 5.1). I cannot tell you how many people I have interviewed for positions that were OCP but didn't know squat about what really being a dba is. To me it is about understanding how and why things work (and don't work) and getting the experience and intuition to resolve problems that may not even be in the database. I can't remember syntax worth a darn, but I know enough to know what to look up!

I will admit that I took OCP tests from v7 to v9i when the company paid for them, but that is a lot to shell out to do on my own.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Thanks,

Jay the grumpy dba

I gotta fever...and the only prescription for it is ... MORE COWBELL!  

-----Original Message-----
From: Alberto Dell'Era [mailto:alberto.dellera_at_gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:58 PM
To: revoohc_at_gmail.com
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Certification

Consider buying the selftestsoftware practice tests, they're excellent and mostly identical to the real questions on the real exams.

Passing the Certification is all about regurgitating the material in the form that the q compilers want - so try the practice tests until you can confidently answer at least 95% of the qs, and you won't fail on the real exam.

On 5/22/07, Chris Hoover <revoohc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been a dba for 7 years working with many different databases.
> I am wanting to get certified in Oracle(10G) to help open up some
> doors. Can anyone recommend the best book(s) to purchase to study for

> the oca and ocp tests? I have several years of Oracle experience, but

> it has been a couple of years since I've done a lot of work with
Oracle.
>
> Thanks for any recommendations,
>
> chris
>
>
>

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