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Alternatives to Oracle University
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training is cheaper and better quality than Oracle University:
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One of the common complaints I hear about Oracle
university is the high cost and that that the instructors may not have enough
years of real-world experience. Our alternative to Oracle University
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Inside OCP Certification
According to Jim DiIanni,
Oracle’s director of certification, the Oracle OCP
certification will retire the Oracle8i OCP (which does not require a
class from an Oracle University approved training center) before
summer 2004: "I think we will probably look at
announcing our retirement for the 8i certification somewhere in the
January to March timeframe of 2004."
This is important
for those Oracle professionals who resent the requirement that only
Oracle-University approved training is accepted.
To circumvent the
Oracle University training requirement, savvy Oracle professionals
are choosing to take the Oracle8i OCP which does not have the
training requirement. We hear that Savvy Oracle professionals
are rushing to complete the Oracle8i OCP before it is retired in
March 2004. The Oracle web site states that if you start the
Oracle8i OCP prior to the retirement of the program, you have
six-month to complete it. This effectively circumvents the
Oracle-approved training requirement.
Starting with the Oracle9i DBA OCP,
Oracle changed their rules to require several controversial changes:
Requirement
to take a class from Oracle University
Damir Bersinic, an Oracle certified
DBA, says it all in an op-ed article titled It Was a Money
Grab after all, published in
certcities.com. Bersinic wrote:
"My second
problem relates to the reason someone may decide to use a
third-party training organization to provide these in-house classes
-- the cost. Oracle University classes are quite expensive. By
forcing OCP candidates to attend an Oracle University class Oracle
is helping to ensure a revenue stream for its education division.
Unfortunately, it may also have the effect of discouraging potential
OCP candidates from pursuing their certification past the OCA stage.
I always thought it was about getting qualified candidates out into
the workforce, though it now appears the OCP certification is about
filling seats in Oracle University classes."
Unproctored
Exam
According to Lynne McLaughlin, Sun Microsystems' worldwide
training manager,
quoted from
certcities.com,
there is a large potential for fraud:
"Someone
could easily log on and then have someone else sit down and take the
test. "You can't call it certification and do it over the Web
[un-proctored] and stay out of legal trouble," she cautions,
"because you can't prove that the person is who they said they
were."
Read other Oracle News on OCP Oracle
certification:
February 2, 2004 -
Oracle India cuts OCP test costs
March 2, 2004 -
Oracle announces retirement of
Oracle8i OCP
March 2, 2004 -
Oracle Applications Certification stalled
March 3, 2004 -
Oracle10g OCP certification
upgrade coming for 10g this year
March 4, 2004 -
Oracle issues over 200k Oracle certification certificates
