Does "P" really mean a Professional in OCP?
Yes I agree, title of this post sounds very provocative and some of the OCP's may be touched.
Reason for writing this post is one of the last threads on OTN forums (and there were many such threads) regarding preparation for OCA certification exam.
Original poster asked for "good model question papers".
One of following replies to this question was: "if it is 9i oca then u can visit my homepage
I followed link provided in reply and I was really surprised. The page provides (as author says) dumps of questions for all exams for 9i OCA and OCP. But the real surprise comes with sentences at the bottom of the page:
"I wud still advise people to prepare all the dump questions as much as they can, because afterall it wud help polishing ur knowledge and then the basic topics tested on the exam and the ideology behind is same so questions are appearing in a bit scrambled form but the concepts ORACLE want to test before certifying an individual are still the SAME!"
My question is: What's wrong with documentation? What about of polishing your knowledge using guides provided by documentation? You can get the same information there. There is not reason for cheating. What is professional on memorizing questions and their answers? And It is very sad that OCP is suggesting to cheating as way to gain a certicate. What is professional on putting up people to cheating. Hopefully he didn't get his College or University diploma using the same way.
"A piece of gud news is that the old dumps are still yielding in a lot of exact questions on the real test. The catch is that if u take exam in Oracle,India centre, you have higher chances of getting the dumps questions than anywhere else."
What can I say on this...? Better I leave this without any comment.
It is very sad that many people preffer memorizing, swotting instead of step-by-step getting of knowledge and practical experience to get OCP certificate. But more saddest is that there exist some OCPs which are suggesting people to cheat and providing them real questions from exam (which is AFAIK illegal).
These two groups of people don't know or probably forgot the meaning of word "professional" which is hidden in the OCP abbreviation.
I really have a great regard for those OCA/OCP which spent cosiderable time to study of documentation or books from well known Oracle scientists and transformed this knowledge to practical experience by doing own testcases on DB (for example) to test what they learnd.
This sort of people will get knowledge and experience that will not
vaporize few weeks after exam. I have a great regard for OCMs because swotting is not a way to get this certificate.
My apologies to these people if they are touched this post or its title.
Fortunatelly you can differ real OCP from OC"P" (cheater) just after few minutes of discussion or during work on the same project.
Let me finish this post with a little joke.
Two former class mates have met some years after University graduation. First tells to other "Man, when I realize how good engineers we are then I'm really scared to visit my medicine doctor."
Installation HOWTO for Oracle 10g Release 2 for RHEL - revisited
I just did little update of existing Installation HOWTO for Oracle 10g R2 and RHEL.
Changelog:
1. Added steps and information for 64bit (x86_64) architecture
2. Post-Install tasks (automatic startup of Database, Listener, EM Website and isqlplus)
3. Added little info about 5 version of RHEL, OEL, Centos
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Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Comments [0]