Wanting career with Oracle9i (OCP)

Question

I’m a graduate in the year ’97 & just completed OCP (Oracle9i). My present working area based with MS Office only.
I want a career where I can use my OCP knowledge.
Is it possible with these qualifications or do I join any other course for better prospect ?
Looking for your suggestions.

Answer 1

San ,
First , accept the congratulations for completing OCP 9i. Your next immediate step should be to cover up 10g and 11g both also as they are both the most current versions. You can clear the combined exam for direct 9i to 11g with this following exam.
http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_exam_id=1Z0_055
The next step should now be to get some place where you can apply your knowledge and cover teh gaps. If you can get a junior dba post, nothing like that. Otherwise, for the time being, get a job of a trainer inthe same field. This will give you two things, one it will give you a place where you would apply you skill. Second, itwill let you interact with others and would let you clear most of the doubts of yours. In the meanwhile , keep looking for a post in the database field.
One last thing, get your self acquintted with the knowledge of some operating system. Oracle has a course which can be very useful for you for the same, Oracle 10g Managing oracle on Linux(046). Biut for this, you need to be 10g OCP first. In any case, you need to update yourself ith some other o/s except Windows.
All the best!
HTH
Aman....