I was quite surprised when I received a mail from Oracle that my OCM 11g profile is now online. It turned out that I am one of only 6 people with an 11g OCM profile! Although there might be some others who succeeded in certification and didn´t publish a profile, I am still quite surprised that there are so few. Maybe the run will begin as soon as the full exam is publicly available as currently only upgrades are possible.

http://education.oracle.com/education/otn/
http://education.oracle.com/education/otn/ocm-11g.html

Today, I received a mail from Oracle to inform me that I passed Oracle Certified Master 11g Upgrade Exam. After several weeks of after-work preparations, this is a very satisfying result. If you are OCM 10g and also interested in upgrading, you can find exam schedule and list of objectives here. Good luck.

Schedule: http://education.oracle.co.uk/html/oracle/28US/SCHED_SP_OCM11.htm

Objectives: http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_org_id=&lang=&p_exam_id=11gOCMU

Last week, I decided to try the newest Oracle 11g certification –

1Z0-054 (1Z1-054): Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Certified Expert.

The exam is still in beta, which means that there are LOTS of questions (192 to be precise) in 3 hours. Unfortunately, this was not enough time for me. I had to skip 5-10 text-intensive questions to make it all the way to the end.

I can only recommend to practice a lot with the new 11g Performance Features as well as DB Control.

Unfortunately, now the waiting is only beginning because results won´t be available until 10 weeks after the beta close, which is extended until 30 June 2009. 😉

I might have to try it again after getting some practical experience on the first 11g production database.