Corporations worldwide are facing a severe shortage of professionals well-versed in Oracle products and applications. These corporations need an objective way to measure a potential or current employee's Oracle expertise, and the Oracle Certified Professional Program (OCP) is expanding its offerings to meet that need. Several new opportunities, including beta exams for the Oracle Java track and Oracle Forms Developer exams, are further enhancing OCP's strong existing curriculum, making the program helpful to an even greater diversity of job roles.
Certifications Available from OracleThe OCP program has evolved in many ways since its inception in November 1997, and the program now offers more certification choices than ever before. The latest additions to the program include Oracle Internet Application Developer and Oracle Forms Developer Release 6/6i production exams, as well as the newest Oracle Internet Database Operator production exam. Certification in these areas allows technology professionals to build sophisticated, scalable Web-based applications. In addition, new features have been added to the Oracle8 and Oracle8i administrators exams, allowing DBAs to keep pace with advancing Oracle technology. And in July 2000, Oracle began allowing candidates to combine exams from different releases of the OCP certification tracks to meet the new certification requirements. Certain restrictions apply, but the new rule basically allows those working toward a DBA or Application Developer certification to combine the exams they have already passed with exams from more recent certification tracks.
For a complete list of certification tracks and detailed information on registering, check
Each track consists of one or more exams composed of 60 to 90 scenario-based multiple-choice and/or interactive graphical questions pertaining to the recommended usage of an Oracle product or application. You must take and pass all core exams in each track to obtain certification for that track. After taking the DBA or Developer track core exams, you can maintain your certification by taking exams on the upgrade path whenever Oracle announces that it's necessary to do so.
The OCP candidate guides for each track, downloadable at /education/certification, identify the objectives for each exam in a given track, while also identifying the Oracle Education instructor-led and/or computer-based training options available for exam preparation.
OCP Preparation: Where to Start
As busy professionals feel increasing pressure to find more mobile and flexible options for instruction, Oracle University provides quality Web-based learning programs as well as ways to integrate classroom and online study. In addition, Oracle Press continues to offer OCP Exam Guide titles designed for home study. All Oracle-led certification programs have corresponding preparation titles published by Oracle Press, including Database Administrator, Application Developer, Financial Applications, and Database Operator. Oracle also offers practice tests for every OCP track; you can order these tests online at /education/certification.
Online registration for OCP exams and registration information for world regions other than North America is also available at http://www.2test.com.
All the Best to all Future OCP's
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