If you would like to be an Oracle Certified Profressional on a developer level, OCA + Forms was always the only way to go. Until now! Oracle is currently running a beta exam on OCP that includes not Oracle Forms, but goes in deeper to PL/SQL. The official title: Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional. The exam (IZ0-146) contains the following subjects:

• Oracle11g: Advanced PL/SQL
• PL/SQL Programming Concepts: Review
• Designing PL/SQL Code
• Working with Collections
• Using Advanced Interface Methods
• Implementing Fine-Grained Access Control for VPD
• Manipulating Large Objects
• Administering SecureFile LOBs
• Performance and Tuning
• Improving Performance with Caching
• Analyzing PL/SQL Code
• Profiling and Tracing PL/SQL Code
• Safeguarding Your Code Against SQL Injection Attacks

More info: http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=155

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