Oracle Education @ USF Oracle Education @ USF helps increase your employability and also trains and prepares you for the competitive job market at a much lower cost compared to Oracle University. Oracle Education @ USF is relevant for the IT professional as well as the manager, accountant, business professional or anyone who needs to use and interpret data to make decisions. For those interested in comprehensive training, the Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Certificate provides 120 hours of instructor-led training needed for the Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional (OCP) professional IT certification exam. Oracle is the world's leading supplier of information management software and the world's second largest independent software company. Oracle education provides competitive employment benefits in virtually every industry. The OCP Certificate consists of three courses: 11g Intro to SQL, 11g DB Administration Workshop I and 11g DB Administration Workshop II. Introductory Oracle Education: 11g Intro to SQL Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Certificate Requirements: Introduction to Oracle Education (11g Intro to SQL) 11g DB Administration Workshop I 11g DB Administration Workshop II Register: www.stfrancis.edu/solutions or 815-740-3600 Benefits of Oracle Education @ USF: Lower cost (half off or more!) as compared to traditional 5 day Oracle University course. Classes are offered at night and on weekends. Courses are spread out over a longer period of time allowing you more time to think and absorb the material between classes improving your knowledge retention. USF is a certified Oracle Education partner. The materials and content are the same that you d encounter in an Oracle University course. Costs: $1,500.00 fee per course (includes book). $3,900.00 fee for three (3) course OCP program (a $600.00 savings!) (includes books). All students receive a 25% discount on the cost of the Oracle Exam Fee. Additional discounts available for companies registering more than one employee. Course availability and program costs are subject to change.
Cancellation policy: 6 business day notice of cancellation required for full refund. Classes cancelled with less than 6 business day notice will be subject to a non-refundable $250.00 fee. No refunds are issued after the first day of class. Schedule: Classes meet 2 times per week for 5 weeks. Classes run from 5:30pm until 9:30pm, for a total of 40 hours of class time. Introduction to Oracle Education (11g Intro to SQL) 11g DB Administration Workshop I o Week 2 11g DB Administration Workshop II o Week 2 Why certify: By becoming an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) you demonstrate your understanding of the full range of skills required by Oracle professionals in your chosen job role. The OCP is in high demand in today's marketplace, and the demand for new OCPs grows with each new release of an Oracle product. An Oracle certification helps raise your visibility and increases your access to the industry's most challenging and rewarding opportunities. Benefits to the IT Employer The Oracle Certification Programs are also valuable to hiring managers who want to hire right candidates for critical IT positions. For companies that send employees through annual IT training, certification helps ensure a return on the training investment by validating the knowledge and understanding gained in training sessions. Companies can also combine certification with an employee development program to enhance employee loyalty and performance on the job. Hiring certified professionals can have a direct impact on a company's success.
Course Descriptions 11g Introduction to SQL In this course students learn the concepts of relational databases. This course provides the essential SQL skills that allow developers to write queries against single and multiple tables, manipulate data in tables, and create database objects. Students learn to control privileges at the object and system level. This course covers creating indexes and constraints, and altering existing schema objects. Students also learn how to create and query external tables. Students learn to use the advanced features of SQL in order to query and manipulate data within the database, use the dictionary views to retrieve metadata and create reports about their schema objects. Students also learn some of the date-time functions available in the Oracle Database. This course discusses how to use the regular expression support in SQL. This course is a combination of Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I and Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals II courses. In this course, students use Oracle SQL Developer as the main development tool. SQL*Plus is available as an optional development tool. This is appropriate for a 10g audience too. There are few minor changes between 10g and 11g features. Create reports of sorted and restricted data Run data manipulation statements (DML) to update data Control database access to specific objects Manage schema objects Manage objects with data dictionary views Retrieve row and column data from tables Audience Developer Application Developers PL/SQL Developer Forms Developer System Analysts Business Analysts Data Warehouse Administrator Familiarity with data processing concepts and techniques Data processing
11g DB Administration Workshop I This course is your first step towards success as an Oracle professional, designed to give you a firm foundation in basic database administration. In this class, you'll learn how to install and maintain an Oracle database. You will gain a conceptual understanding of the Oracle database architecture and how its components work and interact with one another. You will also learn how to create an operational database and properly manage the various structures in an effective and efficient manner including performance monitoring, database security, user management, and backup/recovery techniques. The lesson topics are reinforced with structured hands-on practices. This course is designed to prepare you for the corresponding Oracle Certified Associate exam. Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure Create and manage users Install and Configure Oracle Database Create and manage storage structures Administer the Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Audience: Database Administrators Technical Administrator Support Engineer Technical Consultant Java Developer Taken Oracle Introduction to SQL course or equivalent experience Oracle Database 11g: Introduction to SQL
11g DB Administration Workshop II This course takes the database administrator beyond the basic tasks covered in the first workshop. The student begins by gaining a much deeper understanding of possibly the most important job of a DBA backup and recovery. The concepts and architecture that support backup and recovery, along with the steps of how to carry it out in various ways and situations, are covered in detail. This includes how to define and test your own backup and recovery scenarios. Also, the DBA learns how to manage memory effectively and how to perform some performance evaluation and tuning tasks, including using some of the advisors. All types of flashback technologies, scheduling jobs inside and outside of the database, and controlling system resource usage are also covered. Automate DBA tasks with the Scheduler Diagnose and repair data failures with Flashback technology Manage space to optimize database storage and to be able to respond to growing space requirements Monitor and manage major database components, including as memory, performance, and resources Secure the availability of your database by appropriate backup and recovery strategies Audience: Database Administrators Technical Administrator Support Engineer Technical Consultant Oracle Database 11g Database Administration Oracle Database 11g: Administration Workshop I Release 2