| laloca 2002-08-18, 5:09 am |
| I'd like to add that you don't even get an entry level position with a cert and without any relevant practise.
A cert only means (in case you really studied for it) that you know much theoretic stuff about and around the database. To be honest - while gaining the cert I did not really heard something new. Most of those "important" features for the tests are never seen in practise.
Of how many terabyte databases have you ever heard? Which company with thousands of database users spread over the world with different language sets and time zones would hire you because you have a cert? NONE!
A more realistic scenario is a company with a 3-50 GB database with 10 - 200 users. Maybe there are some more sub-systems which need or provide data from/to your database. Do you need a cert to do this job? NO!
The most scaring thing is that some people with an Oracle cert don't have any experience with Oracle - they never installed the binaries nor created a database or read any reference manual. These "professionals" ask questions like:
"I can't run enterprise manager from sql*plus. What is wrong?
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OCP 8i, DBA 9i "
hmm ... what is wrong? |