Certifying as HDP Certified Administrator
Let’s talk about certification. The thing by which you try to show potential employers and customers that you actually know what you are doing at work. My only experience up to last Tuesday with IT product-related certifications was with Oracle’s Certified Professional program. I’ve been OCP for the database from 8i to 11g plus I’m 11g Database Performance Tuning Certified Expert. But all these exams were mainly multiple choice and to really test your knowledge the exams often contained some obscure stuff that you would rarely use. I’ll never forget the question about v$waitstat in one of these exams… well, I digress.
OCP wasn’t exactly embraced by all Oracle DBA’s either. A lot of experienced DBA’s saw it more as a way for inexperienced DBA’s to show they .. knew how to learn lots of facts about Oracle databases. Companies with lots of inexperienced DBA’s loved it, hoping that this would entice customers to invite their otherwise green “medior” DBA’s.