Oracle Certification Hits 200,000
11/5/2003 -- In a recent interview with CertCities.com Director of Oracle Certification Jim DiIanni said that program recently bypassed the 200,000 certification mark.
According to DiIanni, 203,000 Oracle certifications have been granted worldwide. That's up from 187,000 at the end of 2003 and 113,000 in mid-2002. The program was at apx. 80,000 in June 2001, and 35,000 the year before that.
DiIanni attributes most of the recent growth to the Asia-Pacific region. "Right now we are looking at pretty much flat growth in...the U.S. and [Europe],with the most significant growth right now being India and China."
DiIanni did not offer a breakdown of the total by title, but did say the program's new Oracle Certified Master title is performing well, with 62 candidates worldwide earning the hands-on lab title since its debut last year.
In the interview, DiIanni also told CertCities that the program is considering adding specialties for it's Oracle Certified Professional, Database Administrator title -- particularly a Linux specialty. He also talked about the current progress of the program's other tracks, when the 10g exams might be released, as well as other issues.
To read CertCities.com's interview with DiIanni, click here.
For more on Oracle's certification program, go here.  -Becky Nagel
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There are 15  user Comments for “Oracle Certification Hits 200,000”
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| 11/5/03: Tony Batista - Computer Systems Engineer MCSE 2000 from Washington, DC says: |
10G exams or 10i Database? Better start finishing the 8i exams first and upgrade to 9i then look into 10 DBA |
| 11/12/03: Anonymous says: |
10g? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ |
| 11/6/03: Bob from Canada says: |
I have twelve years of Oracle experience, mostly in development. A little over a year ago I had a dead end job that involved only writing PLSQL Packages. I decided to leave the job and take the time to self-study for certification. I did not have very much DBA experience. I got myself a study guide, sat down at home for five months with Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition on my computer, and passed the four tests with an average of over 90%. I think that my studying for certification was a great learning experience, which forced me to thoroughly understand all aspects of the 9i database. Being certified as an Oracle 9i OCP DBA is not helping me find a job. I think that many companies do not realize the level to which your skills are raised when you go through the certification process. Oracle somehow needs to inform employers about the value of certification. I have worked with many people who held DBA positions and were extremely unqualified. They could only handle routine DBA tasks. The second anything out of the ordinary happened they were on the phone to Oracle support. |
| 11/7/03: Scott from Toronto says: |
Am I alone out there or have others found that many of their "colleagues" are actively hostile towards certs? I can't tell you how many IT "professionals" I've met out there who are comfortably ensconced in their jobs and think they deserve to maintain their positions 'till hell freezes over solely based on a ten-year-old Computer Science degree. I took the same route as Bob above, partly because I wanted to improve my job prospects, partly based I'm sincerely interested in learning the technology. What I've found is that in most job interviews, prospective employers are far more interested in the sort of "experience" any trained chimpanzee could have acquired (e.g. writing basic PLSQL packages)and don't have a clue about what's involved in gaining a major cert like the Oracle DBA. Serious certs force you to acquire a wide (not always deep, admitedly) knowledge of the product in question. Don't get me wrong, I still believe that the best qualification is broad and meaningful experience. But given that only mid- to upper-level positions are likely to provide this (and that mentoring is dead in this industry), certs give the newcomer the chance to show that they still have the ability to learn. In my experience, those in the industry who are the most hostile to certs are more interested in protecting their privileged positions and probably couldn't cut it in the exam room. |
| 11/9/03: Fritz says: |
I agree with Scott and Bob. Many companies carry so much dead wood it their IS Groups. There should be more real evaluation of skills and those who can't cut it should be gone. |
| 11/14/03: Anonymous says: |
TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO |
| 11/17/03: somi from nigeria says: |
i think that it is basically a matter of this employers assuming that most pple that are OCPs nowadays dont really know what being an OCP is all about,cos as bob said there are many incompetent ones(ocps) out there,it makes it a little hard for some of us that really went really deep studying to become an OCP ,so i guess it has something to do with that. |
| 11/22/03: heh says: |
stop dissin degrees, they age better than certifications, and are more valuable |
| 11/28/03: Asiafa Akpos from Nigeria says: |
Companies especially banks in Nigeria spend so much of their resources on getting their Oracle database running, because instead of employing professionals, they employ novice (family members & friends) who just click on ready written scripts to access and administer their database, without knowing what resources (storage space) they have left. In the event of a database crash they prefer bringing people from abroad to recover such disaster, when it can be done effortlessly here. It is advisable that such companies and banks should employ people like us who developed the interest in Oracle products and went ahead to be trained to avoid….. |
| 12/25/03: Balu from India says: |
I have started studying Oracle 9i DBA now only . But i am sure we can get a job, having knowledge in depth in Oracle DBA. Don't Demoralaize people who have got interested to do DBA as well as OCP. |
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