Oracle Certification Manual

Sooner or later, many come to the conclusion that it is necessary to confirm their knowledge with various kinds of certificates. This can be for status, as well as due to production needs. This article describes what you need to obtain Oracle certificates.

The whole sequence of actions for obtaining certificates is as follows:
  • If there is no Oracle account, then register an Oracle account
  • If there is no Pearson VUE account, then register a Pearson VUE account
  • Register for the exam
  • If there is no linking of Pearson VUE and Oracle accounts, then we will link accounts

Let's look at each stage in more detail.

1. Oracle Account Registration


The process of registering an account is standard, so at this point I will describe the existence of this account.

All in all, an Oracle account is good! The biggest plus that I have felt so far is the ability to download fresh distributions of some programs. But we are more interested in the part related to certification. All information on the achieved results can be seen in the CertView service , how the information gets there will be clear from the rest of the article.

2. Pearson VUE Account Registration


The procedure for conducting certification tests Oracle was outsourced, and Pearson VUE is engaged in this procedure. They, in turn, have a bunch of accredited testing centers around the world where you can take certification tests.
Since Pearson VUE is responsible for testing , we need their account. I will omit registration of the account, as this is a standard procedure.

Since Pearson VUE conducts testing on everything that you can have a nuance when registering and using your account, remember your testing program. For us, this is Information Technology (IT) -> Oracle.

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3. Register for the exam


Registration for the exam is through your Pearson VUE account. All registration steps are intuitive and simple except for the choice of exam time and center. At the stage of choosing a testing center, you can, by indicating your city, select several nearby centers, but after choosing one of them we can see that we can not choose the time for the exam. In our city there is only one testing center and their time for passing exams is always closed, so when I want to pass the exam, I call them and arrange for them to open the time for a certain day. When registering, we pay for the exam, prepare (we can start to do this long before registering for the exam), hand in, leave the center.

After the first exam, you are assigned a personal and unique Oracle Testing ID, it will need to be used in the next step.

4. Linking Pearson VUE and Oracle Accounts


This is probably not the most obvious in this chain, but I will briefly explain why this is. Pearson VUE is only responsible for passing certification exams. They do not have services that provide you with information on how you passed the exam, and which exams you have already passed. They issue software for accredited organizations where you pass the exam, after passing your results are sent to Oracle, where they count points and aggregate all your successes in the CertView service.

To bind, we need in our Oracle account to bind it to the Pearson VUE account according to the Oracle Testing ID we received. The binding procedure is intuitive and understandable, at least I don’t remember any problems with this, it is done in a few clicks.

Additional Information


The results of passing the exam in CertView appear within half an hour, but the electronic version of the certificate and logo only within 48 hours.

Gradually, with the achievement of new CertView peaks, various bonuses for certified specialists appear, for example, discounts on books.

The list of certificates can be found here .

PS: good luck to everyone on passing the exams.

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