OMG, Oracle charging too much ($3,200) for 1st step (Training) now just only for 4 days…This is not a good way to earn money…If Oracle needs more money, they should do something else in their main business…In this way, how many people will go for this certification...They should either remove this step or lower the fee if they want to give certificates to peoples….I don’t think more and more people will think about this certificate now….
Is there any way, You can skip the step 1 (Training) and directly go to other 3 steps….like peoples have more than 10 Years of Exp, what they will learn in these Trainings, They already know what the instructor will teach, even more than 60% people know more than the Instructor at this exp level…In 90% cases, Instructor will be a person, who didn’t get a good job in IT and then moved to teaching in IT so that type of people know only theoretical (bookish) knowledge, don’t know how to implement the technology practically in real world applications….
What if a person already cleared 1st step (multiple choice paper) and did not appeared in 2nd & 3rd (Assignment and Essay) steps before Oracle changed this certification path (I think Oct 2011)…like, I cleared 1st Step in 2009 and was planning to clear Assignment and Essay later and now I am thinking about the same, but shocked with the fee for 1st step….Is my 1st Step still valid with this new structure or I need to start from Training….
Any information/help….
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