Oracle Certifications

Many students who are interested in making career in oracle, ask me ' how we can get certified?' ,'what is importance of certification?', 'what are the steps to get certified?'

Look, learning oracle means to learn how oracle works, its internals, its component, how we can get optimum from our system, how to resolve user queries and many more...

Lets have a detailed look on above topics,

1. Oracle corporation offers oracle certification. if you clear these exams then you can be appointed as oracle DBA, database analyst, backup admin etc.,

2. Very popular certification which is also a minimum requirement for perusing career in oracle and to get job as 'Database Administrator' is 'Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)'. OCP's have a deep knowledge of oracle working.

3. To get certified you must complete as hands on course for oracle certification examination. Find for prometric centers in your city on oracle website.

4. There are 4 papers which you have to complete to acquire OCP certification.
A) Introduction to oracle
B) Fundamental I

After completing these two papers you are called as 'Oracle Certified Associate (OCA). In this duration you learn how to use SQL language to retrieve, manipulate, delete and insert data in oracle database. In second paper you learn the architecture of oracle database, what are the components of oracle database, how they are work, etc.,

C) Fundamentals II
D) Performance Tuning

During these season you will learn backup and recovery strategies for oracle database (we will discus them in coming topics). and in last paper you will learn how to tun your database for best performance, means how to size database components for their optimum use.

there are other certifications too, which hold very high level in oracle community like Oracle Certified Master (OCM), RAC administrator etc. you can find information about all of them on following site:

http://education.oracle.com/

Hey, don't get scared....oracle is not a devil, by this time you have a very little idea what is oracle and there are some component that runs it.

As we discover oracle in our future topic you will become more clear. and i know you are little confuse also by this time. don't worry you can post comments and let me know what you want to know, i will try to post it as soon as possible.