Hi Everyone,

A recent article in Certification Magazine spells
out the value of certification IT professionals and article provides
some detailed insight on the state of the economy and what it means to
IT professionals. A few of the key findings (among many) by
Certification Magazine:

Oracle made significant increases this week in the cost of technical certification exams for Sun and Oracle technologies.

Hi Everyone,

There is an
interesting new article in Certification Magazine that reports that
database administrator is one of the fastest-growing occupations. It
also provides a good 'day in the life of a DBA' narrative. If you are
either considering a career as a DBA or are seeking to move your career
forward as a DBA, you should definitely take a look at this article.

Hi Everyone,

I want to make sure
that our partner candidates get recognized for their hard work.

Just a quick reminder that the new prices for Oracle Certification certification exams go into effect today. For specific details, see our previous announcement.

Now that the new Oracle Database 11g Certified Master
Upgrade Exam (one-day practicum)
has been released, Oracle University is focusing on the development of
the more thorough two-day full OCM exam.

Hi
Everyone,

The Oracle Certification Program is announcing a change to Oracle
Certification Program exam prices effective March 1, 2010. This change
in exam prices is the first material exam price increase that Oracle has
made since the inception of it's program. Prices may vary from country
to country so please sure to check the links below or with your local
site for details.

In this interview, we talk with Harald van Breederode - Oracle Certified Master (OCM) and instructor with Oracle University in The Netherlands. Harald is part of the Oracle Certification exam development team and has also co-authored several popular booklets with Joel Goodman on DBA skillsets.

Beta testing is
underway for the new "Oracle Database 11g Essentials for Implementers"
certification exam (1Z1-514).

The Oracle Certification Program is pleased to announce that the new Oracle Database 11g Certified

In this segment of a two-part video series, Joel Goodman - Global Team leader of the Oracle DBA certification exam development team - gives some great insight to Oracle's philosophy to why certification is important to employers.

QUICK LINK:

• VIDEO: Part 1: The Benefits of Oracle Certification - For Professionals

In this segment of a two-part video series, Joel Goodman - Global Team leader of the Oracle DBA certification exam development team - gives some great insight to Oracle's philosophy to why certification is important to professionals and their employers.

Hi Everyone,

We sure appreciate
the comments that folks provide on the blog. Your comments and
suggestions provide a lot for us to think about and consider. It also
helps up identify areas where we need to communicate better or clarify
our policies.

Hi Everyone,

I've gotten a few questions related to exam security lately and wanted to discuss this briefly. The Oracle Certification Program is very concerned about cheaters, content theft, proxy testing and similar activities. These activities hurt the value of our credentials and hurt those who legitimately work to become certified.

 Oracle Certification

Access, use, and get the most benefit out of Oracle Certification practice exams.

In this interview, we explore Self Test Software's practice exam library with John Shapiro - VP of Kaplan IT Learning. We also briefly discuss which exams are available, how to make the best use of these practice exams, and some good insights into braindumps.

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It gives me great pleasure to announce that your blog author, a.k.a.

My Oracle Support teams worked tirelessly since the launch of the new portal to provide access to Electronic Technical Reference Manual (ETRM) today. Log in to My Oracle Support at http://support.oracle.com for the Flash version or http://supporthtml.oracle.com for the HTML version.

Considered to be most significant program evolution in over a decade, the Oracle Partner Network (OPN) unveiled its new OPN Specialized program today.

ORACLE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONALS

The new “Oracle Database 11g: Performance Tuning” certification exam (1Z0-054) is now live, which is a single exam requirement for Oracle 11g DBA OCPs to earn the Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Certified Expert (OCE) certification.

As a follow up to our recent release of CertView, we are making a series of Oracle Certification Walk Thru tutorials available on the web.

Our first tutorial here - "How Do I Get 'Authorized' on CertView?" - shares how the CertView authorization process works when you first access CertView.

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In this segment of a two-part video series, Joel Goodman - Global Team leader of the Oracle DBA certification exam development team - gives some great insight to Oracle's philosophy to why certification is important to professionals and their employers.

This week we are publishing a short two-part video series where Joel Goodman - Global Team leader of the Oracle DBA certification exam development team - gives some great insight to Oracle's philosophy to why certification is important to professionals and their employers.

Be sure and watch this blog post, as we'll be publishing a link to this free and helpful Oracle University video directly here.

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This week we are publishing a short two-part video series where Joel Goodman - Global Team leader of the Oracle DBA certification exam development team - gives some great insight to Oracle's philosophy to why certification is important to professionals and their employers.

Be sure and watch this blog post, as we'll be publishing a link to this free and helpful Oracle University video directly here.

As a follow up to our recent release of CertView, we are making a series of Oracle Certification "Walk Thru" mini-tutorials available on the web. We've just uploaded the first one and will soon be making many more available:

After the very successful Oracle security training event we held in York in July we are now going to run a new event, again in York on February 9th and 10th 2010. The two day training will be held at the Holiday Inn, Tadcaster Road in York, England. The two day seminar includes the actual instruction and each student will get a delegate pack of a CD of scripts and tools, a signed certificate and also two professionally printed manuals to accompany the course. The course also includes coffee breaks and hot 3 course lunch.