My OCI Certification #LearnOracle

It all started with Italy lockdown due to Covid. Oracle made some trainings available for employees. On April I enrolled to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 training.

Why I did it ? Well despite being at Oracle since a while, I never really took the chance to better understand the Oracle Infrastructure foundamentals. From Oracle perspective this training is not even required to Executive Assistants as I am, but as such, I think sometimes it’s very useful to better understand the context and ecosytme around you in order to work at best. Particulary in the recent months words like “comsumption”, “universal credits” - just to to mention two- were often recurring and I realized I didn’t really know much about it.

I took the chance I was offered and started my training: alone, from my house, from sctratch, without basics (my degree focused on Marketing and Communication didn’t gave me much background on IT engineering basics ).

Just as if I were still at university, I started by taking notes during the first 5 hrs course. At the beginning all concepts were completely new to me.

On a second and third re-listening of the training I started connecting the dots. Each time I discovered new details and aspects of each OCI service which , in the session before, I did not even considered.

I leardend a lot! I was fashinated by OCI architectural design and how all these designs were beginning to make sense to me.

Among all the other concepts I also understood the "famous" Universal Credits and I found out that Oracle Functions are really cool!

Acronym over acronym, I found out that ATP is not just the byology acronym for the adenosine triphosphate and HIPAA is not the acronym for High IPA beer Addicted! :-)

I learned more on OCI during these months of training than in the last years. 

This weekend, just before the exam, I felt as if I were navigating in the OCI ocean, overwhelmed with stuff to remember.

Yesterday night I took my certification assessment, and …I passed the test!

To me it counts a lot! It counts because I choose to do it and passing the test reminded to myself what I can do and achieve when I want to and if I trust in my capacities. I’m proud of myself, yes I do! And this is exactly what I need now: be proud of myself!

I know I’m taking it too long but I still want to thank Micaela Maridati and Claudia Castellano for the extraordinary help in navigating through the Oracle University and Pearson procedures to enroll for the certification assessment. Thanks to Paolo Salvalaglio, Claudio Petrone and Roberto Rufini for their guidance; thanks to my coach Rohit Rahi, who delivered the training: I could recognize his calm and peaceful voice among thousand people! Well he doesn’t know me but I feel as if I really do: this is the power of remote training!

And finally thanks to Jenny; Sandra; Camilla for their constant support, for listening to me and being close friends before collegues.

Hey Folks, I know it’s just a foundation training and not a Nobel price but to me it means a lot!

Finally thanks to you for reading my article! Ciao, Sara