Since the last time I took an exam, Oracle switched from Pearson VUE in person testing to online testing from your home/office. This series of three blog posts explains the process of buying a voucher and scheduling an exam. Some of the steps aren’t obvious, so I comment on those in more detail.
Remember to study before you buy the exam as your exam must be taken within 6 months of paying. See our Java 21 OCP Certified Professional Study Guide page for details!
- Part 1: Paying for the exam
- Part 2: Assigning the exam attempt (you are here)
- Part 3: Scheduling the exam
Step 1: The emails
Within 10 minutes Jeanne and Scott each got an email confirming payment. It also included the order number, customer support id, and the note about waiting up to two days.
About 40 minutes later, I got an email titled “Activate Your Oracle University Digital Learning Exam”.
Step 2: Assign exam attempts
This is a weird step. I bought one exam attempt for myself and Oracle wants me to distribute the exam to myself as if I am a company. Click on the “Exam Attempts Administration Tool” and the click the edit icon under “Assign Attempts”
Then click on “Assign Exam Attempts”
Enter your email and the number “1” and click “Add to List”. Then you check a box that you have consent to send email to these individuals. Which is weird because it is still you. And submit. So after all that work, you – the individual who bought the exam is now assigned a voucher to take an exam.
This generates an email titled “Oracle Exam Attempt Assigned” which tells you that you can sign up for an exam at long last. Yay!
Now that you have an attempt, you can schedule your exam. See Scheduling the exam