> 
> All the certification proves is that you can take a standardized
> multiple choice test. It tells NOTHING about the intelligence or
> ability to think and reason of the certificate holder.
> 
> I'm fairly sure my hands-on experience with Oracle is what has really
> gotten me jobs. None of my bosses or interviewers even knew what OCP
> was
> 

Rachel,

I agree.  I'll always take real world experience over a certificate.  The
certificate means a person knows how to recite specific answers to specific
questions.  It doesn't mean they can think through a production database
crash recovery, deal with users, etc.

Dave
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