“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
me wrote:For example if you are interested in Android development then you may want to look into Kotlin (no certification available).
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Pete Letkeman wrote:if you look at the OCP wall of Fame https://coderanch.com/wiki/659976/Ocpjp-Wall-Fame you can see that people go many different directions after getting their OCP certification.
You mentioned that you have your OCA for Java 7 you could also go for your Java 8 certifications.
It's my understanding that not too much has changed between the OCA Java 8 and Java 7 exams and you can even use of the Java 7 OCA study guides for Java 8 OCA.
However people such as Jeanne Boyarsky have stated that the OCP Java 8 exam is rather difficult and you cannot use Java 7 OCP books for the Java 8 OCP exam.
You can also go from OCA Java 7 to OCP Java 7 to OCP Java 8. But it is easier to go from OCA Java 7 to OCA Java 8 to OCP Java 8.
It's the same number of exams, but OCA exams are easier to pass.
There is also the question of Java 9 certification. You may not be aware of this, but Java 9 was released in Sept 2017.
There are many questions regarding how, where, and when Oracle will eventually mention this certification.
It's been speculated that Oracle may start with the Java 9 beta exams sometime in the fourth quarter of 2018 or the first quarter of 2019.
You can give yourself a head start by starting to learn Java 9 as there are a number of books out there regarding this topic which have been released in the last six months.
Not only that there are some people on this site who are actively learning Java 9 and I'm sure that they could help you out with your Java 9 questions.
What you do next also depends on what you want to do.
For example if you are interested in Android development then you may want to look into Kotlin (no certification available).
Or maybe you want to get into big data systems like Hadoop or SAP Hana, both of which your Java experience will be an asset and have certifications.
alex jamison wrote:1. i am not sure i can get the funding to do an upgrade to OCA8 then OCP8. Will OCP7 not be that valuable at all?
alex jamison wrote:2. I think with current tech market, i am more interested in the "web technology", Amazon, google and few other companies i am interested in are big in those space.
Any suggestions? I am not looking to be a coder but to be technical enough to discuss architecture design and be the bridge between pure technical and pure business (something i am doing now)
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Pete Letkeman wrote:It's been speculated that Oracle may start with the Java 9 beta exams sometime in the fourth quarter of 2018 or the first quarter of 2019.
You can give yourself a head start by starting to learn Java 9 as there are a number of books out there regarding this topic which have been released in the last six months.
Not only that there are some people on this site who are actively learning Java 9 and I'm sure that they could help you out with your Java 9 questions.
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