Oracle South Africa has expanded its certification programme and online training services to include two new options: Oracle Certified Master and Oracle Certified Associate.
According to Wynand du Plessis, director at Oracle University, Oracle students can now choose whether to use the Internet for certification training online, rather than having to attend physical classroom sessions, as in the past.
"The expanded programme makes Oracle9i certification more accessible, leading to more trained Oracle professionals in the market place and providing a wider array of high-tech workers with the opportunity to remain competitive in a tough economy."
Du Plessis says a glance at the jobs section of any newspaper will indicate that demand for Oracle skills is exceptionally high and growing both locally and across the globe.
An IDC report on IT education and training services stated that the fastest-growing certification areas were for database professionals and network engineers, while a US survey pointed out that it is very difficult to find qualified Oracle Certified Professionals-Database Administrators.
The same survey - by crn.com - indicated that Oracle Certified Professionals can bill out at around three-and-a-half times more than Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers.
To help meet this market demand and open up the benefits of becoming Oracle certified to a broader audience, Oracle has introduced two new levels of professional achievement to DBAs and soon to be released to application and Java developers:
* The Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) -- an entry-level Oracle qualification requiring successful completion of two exams.
* The Oracle Certified Master (OCM) -- an advanced qualification for Oracle Certified Professionals (OCP), that requires students to take a practicum exam on-site at Oracle University.
Additionally, to provide more flexible training options to become certified, Oracle has expanded its online training services to include instructor-led online and self-paced online.
Instructor-led online provides the same experience that students are accustomed to in-class but replicated online, bringing live instruction into the student`s home or workplace to better accommodate travel and budget restrictions.
Self-paced online offers online access to pre-recorded instruction, with live interaction with both the instructor and peers through chat sessions and asynchronous office hours allowing students to work at their own pace, anytime and anywhere.
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