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PASSED! Jeanne’s Experience Taking the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional

Jeanne Boyarsky — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:50:05 +0000

Today I took the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Generative AI Professional certification and passed with a score of 86%. Passing is 68%. This roughly the score I got on the Foundations exam. Which isn’t surprising. I tend to make the same … Continue reading →

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Oracle’s new certification exam engine

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sat, 03 May 2025 01:26:23 +0000

When I took the Java 21 certification, Oracle was essentially using Zoom to proctor the exam. Today I took the Oracle AI Vector Search Professional certification so I could see the new exam engine. It’s much better! (separate blog post … Continue reading →

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Oracle’s new certification exam engine was first posted on May 2, 2025 at 9:26 pm.
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Happy Book Birthday! New OCP 21 Book Now Shipping!

Scott Selikoff — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:59:50 +0000

Jeanne and I are excited to announce our new Java OCP 21 Certified Professional Study Guide is now shipping! Released by Wiley Publishing, this book teaches you all the new (and old) features of Java 21, and helps prepare those … Continue reading →

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PASSED! Scott’s Experience Taking the Java 21 Certification Exam 1Z0-830

Scott Selikoff — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:18:37 +0000

As we mentioned earlier this week, Oracle announced their new Java 21 Certification Exam 1Z0-830 this week. Being a gluten for punishment, I signed up as soon as it was available to take (Thursday). I passed! But with a much … Continue reading →

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PASSED! Scott’s Experience Taking the Java 21 Certification Exam 1Z0-830 was first posted on July 13, 2024 at 12:18 pm.
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Announcing our new OCP Java 21 1Z0-830 Exam Study Guide!

Scott Selikoff — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 19:58:07 +0000

Jeanne and I thrilled to announce our new Java OCP 21 Study Guide is coming out soon! This is based on the recently announced Oracle 1Z0-830 Exam for Java 21. Preorders starting now! You can be confident when purchasing our … Continue reading →

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Happy Book Birthday! OCP 17 Practice Tests

Jeanne Boyarsky — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:36:10 +0000

Our Java 17 Practice Tests book has been released! This is a major rewrite of our Java OCP 11 book with hundreds of new and revised questions! If you already have our Java 17 Study Guide, you can purchase it … Continue reading →

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Happy Book Birthday! OCP 17 Practice Tests was first posted on November 7, 2022 at 11:36 am.
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Happy Book Birthday! OCP Java 17 Book Released!

Scott Selikoff — Tue, 03 May 2022 20:55:23 +0000

Jeanne and I over the moon to announce the release of our new OCP Java 17 Developer Complete Study Guide! This book is the culmination of years of knowledge that we’ve accumulated writing study guides for Java. It is for … Continue reading →

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Java CompactNumberFormat Bug or Feature?

Scott Selikoff — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:22:22 +0000

Java 12 introduced a new CompactNumberFormat class, which anyone studying for the new Java 17 1Z0-829 OCP certification should know. It’s really cool utility feature, helping to shorten lengthy number values into shorter forms for common usage. It supports a … Continue reading →

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Java CompactNumberFormat Bug or Feature? was first posted on February 7, 2022 at 7:22 pm.
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how to sign up for an oracle java certification exam

Jeanne Boyarsky — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:52:58 +0000

Oracle changed the process for signing up for a test in person. (If you want to take an exam online from home, read up in carefully. For example, this blog post. It wasn’t immediately clear to me how to register … Continue reading →

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Oracle support EOL for Java LTS versions

Jeanne Boyarsky — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:36:55 +0000

The current end of life support dates are interesting. I extracted some dates from the official support table to make it easier to see this. Version General Availability PRemiere Extended 7 7/11 7/19 7/22 8 3/14 3/22 10/30 11 9/18 … Continue reading →

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