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Hi,
Would the OCA-DBA certification be enough to get my foot in the door as an entry level DBA? I'm not expecting anything outrageous. I'm just wanting to jumpstart my career in the IT field. I have no experience other than just a simple user and my knowledge of SQL through websites and Microsoft Access.
Thanks,
John

user13265094 wrote:
Hi,
Would the OCA-DBA certification be enough to get my foot in the door as an entry level DBA? I'm not expecting anything outrageous. I'm just wanting to jumpstart my career in the IT field. I have no experience other than just a simple user and my knowledge of SQL through websites and Microsoft Access.
Thanks,
JohnProbably not.
It may depend on location and a host of other things, but there are now a lot of DBA OCA's out there, and companies want experience.
But as always there will be exceptions.
Please note I am not a career advisor.
Possibly consider training as a tester to get experience may be a way in.
An ISEB Testing Certification + ITIL foundation + an1z0-051 pass (or OCA MYSQL) might be a good CV going for entry level. Or it might be totally useless.
You may also be able to develop through a power user route if you get really lucky. And with an Access background you might want to look at SQL*SERVER if you really wish to stay with databases, but you might find really good excel it more important. ( I would prefer to be promoting Oracle Open office and mysql here).
If you really want an entry level database certification consider http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_exam_id=1Z0_870 ... which was worthwhile until they doubled its price .... but it is probably one of the easier OCA out there. But this is proably a distraction and you proably ought to do something else.
Please dont regard any of these suggestions as much use, and feel free to ignore.

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I am 37 yrs old man from Calcutta,India. I am presently jobless for 3 years now .I am a BSc(PCM) . I was earlier working as a salesman in a sales based company. I have no experience in IT though I have done lots of IT courses. Can I get job after doing Oracle certification at this age?
Please advice.
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Can I get job after doing Oracle certification at this age?
Can you get a job if you become certified in Oracle? Certainly!
Will you get a job if you become certified in Oracle? Who knows?
Professional certifications are not magic wands. You cannot wave a certificate and cause employers to come running to hire you. Certifications can help you to learn some of the skills required to administer Oracle, or develop in Oracle, or use various Oracle software products. There are companies that need people with this knowledge. I have written a number of articles about the topic:
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1Z0-051 Oracle Certification - OCA

Hi. I am in a fix and so need your help.
I am planning to give 1Z0-051 Oracle Certification exam(Oracle Database 11g- SQL fundamentals). However, I will be unable to give my 1Z0-052 exam(Oracle Database 11g- Administration-I) at this time. So, if I give only 1Z0-051 exam, then will it carry some weightage in my resume? Also, if I pass the 1Z0-051 exam, then how should I put it in my resume? That I am a Oracle Certified individual?

806538 wrote:
Hi. I am in a fix and so need your help.
I am planning to give 1Z0-051 Oracle Certification exam(Oracle Database 11g- SQL fundamentals). However, I will be unable to give my 1Z0-052 exam(Oracle Database 11g- Administration-I) at this time. So, if I give only 1Z0-051 exam, then will it carry some weightage in my resume? Also, if I pass the 1Z0-051 exam, then how should I put it in my resume? That I am a Oracle Certified individual?If you pass the 1z0-051 you may put that in your resumé.
(If you need proof of this copy the report from the test center ... you cannot really get from of this from Oracle. Certview will publish certifcations, not exam passes). If you take this online there is no proof it was you you actually took the exam).
However you are not Oracle certified and must not put that in your resume ... you may only put it in your resumé when you have proof from Oracle you have been awarded a Certification.
The weight of this exam pass, and indeed any exam pass or certification, can depend on the reader(s) of the resumé; and the nature of job you are applying for; and the strength of the other candidates for the job. Suppose an employer was looking for CV's for a DBA job. Assuming the HR/agencies let the CV's through they might get (in practice a higher number of DBA OCPs might be expected):
Person with a 1z0-051 pass and degree and no experience.
5 with 9i DBA OCP, most with MA degrees, with no experience
10g DBA OCA obtained 3 years ago with no experience.
Apparently experienced DBA with no formal qualifications and no degree.
Now the first and last candidates have a high probability of being what they say they are, but the first wuld be no good if an experienced DBA was needed. It would be necessary at interview to be careful to check the others had the experience level claimed due to certifications being obtained though cheating and fraud. Its also worth noting DBA OCA does not cover backups / restores in depth.
However if what was needed was someone to query database results as a result of some tests the first candidate might acutally be the most suitable .. assuming he has studied the 1z0-051 carefully. The 10g OCA might not have done SQL ... the experienced DBA might feel that was not a suitable job for him, and the 9i DBA OCPs may have rushed (or cheated) their way through 1z0-007 as quickly as possible and would not be interested / capablle of this work.
(Please note this article is biased against 9i DBA OCP ... at one point my understanding is there was a particularly high level of cheating/fraud against this certification and some poor training from some WDP institutions ... which is a pity for those achieving the certification through due work and good training).

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Hi,
Thank you very much to sharing with us. I also agreed Oracle Certification have important role in the salary.
Awaiting for Oracle Blog & Survey result.
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Which Oracle Certification Should I Start With

Hi,
I'm looking for some advice on which Oracle certification I should start with. Let me first tell you about me and my business goals. I an new to the SQL world but have a firm grasp of the RDBMS. I have also worked as a Business Analyst for a company that is doing an Oracle upgrade including the EBS. I have had to do some very basic queries. My business goal is to improve my Oracle database skills.
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CRC_05

Hi;
I'm looking for some advice on which Oracle certification I should start with. Let me first tell you about me and my business goals. I an new to the SQL world but have a firm grasp of the RDBMS. I have also worked as a Business Analyst for a company that is doing an Oracle upgrade including the EBS. I have had to do some very basic queries. My business goal is to improve my Oracle database skills.
I would like to add Business (Data) Analyst to my job description some day. I would like to be both a Business Analyst and a Business Data Analyst. I have been asked to work as a jr. DBA in the past, and would like to continue to pursue those options. Currently, my work seems to evolve around Oracle as opposed to the other businesses out there.
Given this information, which certification would you recommend I start with. Please let me know if you require additional information. This is my long term business goal so I will take as much time as needed to get it done. I was thinking I should start with *1Z0-051 SQL Fundamentals I* (11g). Any thoughts?You could get this certificate as a first steps. If you want to be expert on dba subjects than you need to go OCA and OCP certification path.
If you get to Business Analyst than you can go wiht ebs certification
http://blogs.oracle.com/certification/2008/08/oracle_ebusiness_suite_r12_cer.html
But dont forget those subjects are different from eachother and need different skills to become senior on those subjects
Hope it helps
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as you seem to care more about the number of certifications than about what you're actually certified in (otherwise you'd not ask such a question) you should just choose the easiest...
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maheshguruswamy wrote:
user2571097 wrote:
But I also doubt whether the question raised was clear enough for the person to be answered! - just my two cents ....Even if my question was not clear enough (which it was), i would expect someone applying for a senior position such as technical architect position to ask clarifying questions. My point from the beginning was, you absolutely are not qualified to become a technical architect with just a certification. Here is how the interview went
Me - How do you find out what your browser is submitting to the server from a purely client perspective?
Candidate - I will put the receiving server in debug mode and print out values.
Me - What if you don't have access to that server?
Candidate - Well, its my server.
Me - Okaay, you open your browser and go to CNN.com and click on a link, how do you find out details about that request?
Candidate - You can't.
Me - So you are saying you can't inspect what your browser is sending in http requests?
Candidate - yeah....i guess.
Me - Have you heard of tools such as wireshark, firebug, httpfox, http analyzer, tcpmon etc
Candidate - No, never heard of it.
I ended the interview after that.Hmm. Probably this guy didn't know what he was talking about, but still I wouldn't necessarily demand from someone applying for an architect position to know the gritty details of development; that's too low level for someone who should be focusing on the big picture. I'd rather have someone that knows how to design and guide people to build maintainable systems in stead of someone that knows how to sniff packets.
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Urgent:How to get the Sqltext for Oracle Sumbitted Jobs in 10g

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