They give a lot more detail, as well as an example using 9i, at https://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=770
For me, aging a cert is nothing more than meaningless admin.If the cert is tied to a version of the product, and the product ages out (eg: Red hat 4, Oracle DB 9i) then the associated cert is not completely relevant to most of the industry anyway. However, it is likely the person earning the cert has not lost whatever knowledge and the proficiency identified by the cert has not technically changed ... although using that proficiency may be rusty.
The industry in general would be better off generating/ensuring/demonstrating high value of certification, and getting customers to understand that value - at which time, the link between cert and version becomes intrinsically obvious.
/Hans On 10/10/2014 7:33 AM, Niall Litchfield wrote:
It would be nice to know what you need to do to upgrade as well. Yes there's a link to the recertification requirements, via the usual education.oracle.com <http://education.oracle.com> go to this page to find a link to this page to .. . When you get to the pdf though, it suggests that for your 9.2 example the upgrade path is 2 exams and therefore 2 fees. If however you go through the 12c certification upgrade tab, you only need one exam to upgrade, this was in a press release when 12c came out. It would be nice if the story could be straight (and the recertification was a single step).I'm all in favour of what real professions call CPD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_professional_development>. I'm not sold on continual re-certification, nor am I convinced that a multiple choice test reasonably measures how current I am with industry trends and best practices.
