Month: November 2014
Oracle Learning Streams
Five years ago the only training that we could get was the in-person, classroom kind. The only options were whether you went to a partner or Oracle University, and whether travelled to the trainer’s venue or they came to your office. This type of training had some drawbacks, in that you had to commit to a specific week or set of days – often a long time in advance – and you had to take the training all in one go. In the fast-changing world of project work it was often the case that the training couldn’t be organised at short enough notice, or by the time it came around it was no longer convenient to take the time away from the office.
There is now a solution to this … enter Oracle Learning Streams … Read the rest of this entry »
Becoming a Fusion HCM Implementation Specialist
In my quest to become a rounded out and properly qualified Fusion / HCM Cloud consultant, I’ve been working my way through the certification exams. So far I’d completed these 7:
- Fusion HCM 2014 Sales Specialist
- Fusion HCM 2014 PreSales Specialist
- Fusion HCM 2014 Security Specialist (click for write-up)
- Fusion HCM 2014 Reporting Specialist (click for write-up)
- Fusion HCM 2014 Data Specialist (click for write-up)
- Fusion Applications 2014 User Experience Specialist (click for write-up)
- General Product Support Specialist v4.0
The final exam to check off was the Implementation Specialist exam. This was a little different to the others in that it is proctored, i.e. you have to book in to go to a testing centre and all the travel etc that entails.
The exam itself is tougher than the others, and if you fail there is a period of time before you can retake it. Therefore it made sense to make sure that I nailed it first time.
Handily, I’d just come off of the Fusion HCM workshop for partners which gave me a good grounding in the topics and all it took was a couple more nights of study using the materials from the workshop and some sample questions (there’s a 10 question study guide available from Oracle here).
I was very pleased to pass the exam, but it was close as there were some fairly niche questions. The ones that caught me were mostly about security, and not security within the application – which I knew pretty well – but with APM (Authorization Policy Manager) which I was less familiar with) and I had four questions on which business sub-processes are within each product family.
Of course, the questions given are most likely selected from a large bank so others taking the exam may see other questions instead.
Becoming a Fusion HCM Reporting Specialist
At first reading, the wealth of reporting options available to Fusion customers is a little confusing. How do you know your OBI EE from your OTBI and your BIP from your OBIA? Hopefully this post will clear it up a little. Read the rest of this entry »
Fusion Tipster 