Celebrating Our Second Birthday Online

The OCP Blog Editor joins you in celebrating the second birthday being online. It has been one of life's most rewarding experience to meet thousands of visitors from more than 160 countries and territories of the world on the OCP Blog.

A very big thank you to all readers around the world and to those who made the OCP blog a #1 search result on Google for 20 months now for the keyword "11i OCP" (Blog Editor: Advertisers hope you are reading this!)

Thanks to the OCP Blog, the Blog Editor has met dozens of blog readers in person, exchanged hundreds of e-mails with certification candidates, made a few hundred posts in various certification forums, met and interviewed the entire Oracle Certification program team (interviews to be published later this month and in November 2008), met the Who's Who of the Oracle universe at the Bloggers party during Oracle Openworld 2008 and founded the Oracle Certification Group on Oracle Mix and the LinkedIn OCA/OCP/OCE/OCA group.

Here are the links to the 5 most popular blog posts during the last two years (in no specific order):

• Patch Numbers for Oracle Tutor Documents
  
• What's a Beta Exam?
  
• Are you ready for the party?
  
• Take the R12 Beta Exam Challenge
  
• Meet the Experts: Featuring OCP Sabdar Syed

The OCP blog would be expanding its offering and presence online with new initiatives over the next six months. Please keep on visiting the OCP Blog and read the blog posts during your Oracle Certification journey.

The OCP Editor promises that it would be a very 'rewarding' experience from here onwards (pun intended - did I give away the secret regarding first of our new initiatives already!)

EBS R12 Beta Exam Deadline Extended

Thanks to the gracious folks at Oracle Certification Program, the exam deadline for the EBS R12 exams have been extended to January 31, 2009.

The production exams would be released around first week of April, 2009 or about 8 weeks after the end of the beta exam period. The beta exam results would be informed to candidates around mid-April, 2009.

The picture above shows the Oracle Corporation headquarters at Redwood Shores, California. The glass and steel buildings are shaped like cylinders representing the eponymous Oracle database. The blog editor spent eventful years inside the cylinder before moving to a new address last month.

The beta exam dates have been extended for the following exams:

1Z1-206 Oracle E-Business Suite R12: System Administration

1Z1-215 Oracle EBS R12: General Ledger and Payables Fundamentals

1Z1-216 Oracle EBS R12: General Ledger and Receivables Fundamentals

1Z1-225 Oracle EBS R12: Inventory and Purchasing Fundamentals

1Z1-226 Oracle EBS R12: Inventory and Order Management Fundamentals

1Z1-238 Oracle EBS R12: Install, Patch and Maintain Applications

1Z0-244 Oracle EBS R12: Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Many certification candidates who are in the middle of their certification exam preparation had requested for a date extension and once again the Oracle team has been most receptive and accommodating.

Blog readers are encouraged to participate in the EBS R12 Beta Challenge. A new announcement about more prizes as part of the Beta Challenge will be published next week. The OCP Blog Beta Exam Challenge Winners would be announced in May 2009.

Meanwhile, there is more than 100 days now to become one of the first EBS R12 certified professional!