Oracle Scholarship | Professional Development Foundation

About Oracle Scholarship

The program grants Oracle certificates which are in demand in the business field that help applicants enhance their skills as well as find job opportunities in both the Egyptian and Middle East Markets. The educational tracks are given in both Oracle Technology and Oracle e-Business.

Program Objectives

The Program aims to enhance the caliber of IT Professionals by providing practitioners in the field with the opportunity to excel on an international level through Oracle training. The program is reinforced and deemed necessary by the market needs for professionals in the IT field that will greatly aid Egypt in its move towards an international expert market.

This is achieved by selecting a number of IT professionals who will be enrolled in Oracle Technology tracks that consist of highly specialized IT courses and integrated business skills courses.These individuals will acquire the essential knowledge and skills that allow them to pass Oracles exam and obtain a highly required IT industrial certificate as well as all the required skills that will allow them to compete in today's demanding job market.

Program Design

Oracle 10g Fundamentals

This course introduces Oracle Database 10g technology and the relational database concepts and the powerful SQL programming language and provides the learners with the essential SQL skills of querying the database. As for the PL/SQL course it introduces students to PL/SQL and helps them understand the benefits of this powerful programming language. In the class, students learn to create PL/SQL blocks of application code that can be shared by multiple forms, reports, and data management applications. Students learn to create anonymous PL/SQL blocks, stored procedures, and functions. Students will learn to manage PL/SQL program units manage dependencies, manipulate large objects, and use some of the Oracle-supplied packages.

Oracle Java Enterprise Developer 10g

1. Oracle 10g: Java Programming

Introducing the Java and Oracle Platforms
Defining Object Oriented Principles
Basic Java Syntax and Coding Conventions
Exploring Primitive Data Types and Operators
Controlling Program Flow
Building Java Using Oracle JDeveloper
Creating Classes and Objects
Class Loading, Object Life Cycle and Inner Classes
Using Strings, String Buffer, Wrapper and formatting Classes
Reusing Code with Inheritance and Polymorphism
Using Arrays and Collections
Structuring Code Using Abstract Classes and Interfaces
Throwing and Catching Exceptions
User Interface Design: Planning a Form Layout
Adding User Interface Components and Event Handling
Accessing the Database with JDBC
Deploying Applications Using Java Web Start

2. Oracle 10g: Build J2EE Applications

J2EE Overview
Architecting J2EE Applications
Creating the web tier: Servlets
Access the database with Servlets
Utilizing additional Servlet techniques
Maintaining state within J2EE Applications
Creating the web tier: JavaServer Pages
Modularizing JavaServer Pages Development with Tags
Communication in J2EE
Creating the business tier: Enterprise Java Beans
Implementing business tasks with Session EJBs
Managing persistent data in the business tier: Entity EJBs
Achieving State Management in the Business Tier
Specifying Relationships in CMP Entity beans
Creating Message Driven Beans
Integrating J2EE Components
Distributing Modular Applications: Introduction to Web Services
Distributing Modular Applications: Developing Web Services
Implementing Security in J2EE Applications

3. Oracle JDeveloper 10g: Build Applications with ADF

Application Development Framework
The ADF Development Process
Getting Started with ADF Business Components
Building the Business Logic
Exposing Business Data
Adding Custom Validation
Providing for Efficient Queries
Making the Model Secure
Controlling an Application with Struts
Building ADF View Components
Customizing Actions
Using ADF Struts Components
Adding Validation and Error Handling
Enhancing the User Interface
Adding JAAS Security to the Client
Building ADF UIX View Components
Deploying an ADF Application

Oracle Database 10g

1. Administration Workshop I

Introduction
Installing Oracle Database 10g Software
Create an Oracle Database
Database interfaces
Controlling the database
Storage Structures
Administering users
Managing Schema Objects
Managing Data
PL/SQL
Oracle Database Security
Oracle Net Services
Oracle Shared Server
Performance Monitoring
Proactive Maintenance: Objectives
Undo Management
Monitoring and Resolving Lock Conflicts
Backup and Recovery Concepts
Database backups
Database Recovery

2. Administration Workshop II

Using Globalization Support
Securing the Oracle Listener
Configuring Recovery Manager
Using Recovery Manager
Diagnostic Sources
Recovering from non-critical losses
Database Recovery
Flashback database
Recovering from User Errors
Dealing with Database Corruption
Automatic Database Management
Monitoring and Managing Storage
Automatic Storage Management
Monitoring and Managing Memory
Managing Resources
Automating Tasks with the Scheduler

Certification

Oracle 10g Fundamentals (will be an introduction to any track):

This course of fers students an extensive introduction to data server technology. The class covers the concept of relational databases and the powerful SQL programming languages.

Oracle 10g java Developer:

This course teaches the concepts and essential elements of the Java language.While learning Java,you will build applications using standard Java technologies.The development environment used for this course is Oracle J Developer 10g.In addition to coding in Java,you will learn how to use the graphical development capabilities of JDeveloper to aid application development

Oracle Database 10g:

In this class,you'll learn how to design, create,and maintain an Oracle database.In addition to learning several methods to backup and to recover your Oracle database.Hands-on workshops give you experience in a realistictechnical environment. Develop skills for basic network administration. Simplify your duties with Oracle Recovery Manager. This course introduces students to the new features in Oracle Database 10g the database for Grid computing.

Financials Functional Implementer.

This course will cover the technical functionality of the core financial application modules to implement and use the following: General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Asset Management and Cash Management.

Supply Chain Functional Implementer.

In this course participants will learn how to set up and use oracle inventory for inventory management.Participants will practice performing many of the processing and inquiry transaction necessary to an inventory environment such as, Receiving, moving and replenishing inventory items and generating counttags for physical inventories. Each of the above tracks is also complemented by integrated Business Skills course.

Integrated Business Skills

Career Development:

The Career Development component provides the student with the proper tools required to compete in todays demanding job market.

Presentation Skills:

Through presentation skills, students are able to effectively communicate ideas in an organized, professional manner.

Business Correspondence:

In the Business Correspondence component, students will be able to understand the importance of effective channels of communication.

Communication Skills:

The communication skills course will be demonstrating the importance of communication skills needed and the tools to be effectively used inside and outside the organization emphasizing the different types of communication and the proper use of each.

Negotiation Skills:

This course will explore the art of negotiation; it involves the negotiation tactics as well as persuasion skills catered to realize the importance of negotiation and the objectives related to the deliverables of this function taking in consideration the Win-Win situation.

Selection Criteria

Applicants must be Egyptian nationals.

Applicants must have a working knowledge of the English language.

Applicants should be graduated at least with grade Goodand preferably those with 2 years technical working experience in the IT field.

All male applicants must have an acceptable military status.

All applicants will be required to undertake and pass IT and IQ written examinations designed for these programs.

Applicants must be fully committed to a minimum of 20 hours/week of classroom/lab training (from 5-10 pm).

Any student who misses 10% of the required number of hours per course will be disqualified for graduation.