Welcome to the new world of Oracle. You have picked the right book for gaining expertise in Oracle SOA Suite and certifying yourself as a highly qualified professional in the growing pool of the Oracle SOA Consultant/Developer community. This book will help you to understand the exam objectives for getting the Oracle Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure Implementation Certified Expert status through the 1Z0-451 Oracle SOA Foundation Practitioner exam. This book will provide you with real-world scenarios for explaining the concepts involved in using Oracle SOA components. The focus of this exam is on the Oracle SOA Suite 11g release.
Service Oriented Architecture is growing in importance day-by-day in the information technology space, and the number of customers implementing SOA solutions is growing as well. Oracle SOA Suite has emerged as a strong player in this field and it is the number 1 ranked middleware product today in the market that supports Open standards, hot pluggable, easy to develop and deploy integration components in agile and nimble fashion. Having expertise in this product will give a bigger edge to your career and provide ample opportunities in an ever changing Oracle World.
Before getting deep into the concepts, this chapter will provide you with an overview of Oracle — its products, its technologies, certification, its benefits, and importance.
In this chapter, we shall attempt to understand the following:
Oracle and products
Oracle SOA Suite 11g
Oracle SOA certification objectives
Why get certified?
Exam details
Exam registration procedure
Most of us should be knowing Oracle as a leading database vendor for many years. However, it has also emerged as a company focused on hardware, software, middleware, solutions, and services by acquiring a large number of companies. Their product catalog now ranges from packaged implementations to solutions and services, middleware, and database products among many industry solutions.
The following figure illustrates it in detail:
