Over the past couple of months I've kind of boxed myself into a corner because, completely devoid of things I wanted to talk about with my manager when it comes to "goals", I mentioned SQL as a growth area and the conversation eventually steered into her suggesting I take the 1Z0-71 Oracle exam
I've studied up for the exam but the more I learn about it the more I realized how retarded I was to follow along with her suggestion. This shit is hard in the worst way. Weird little pitfall/trick questions that assumes you're going to be doing dev work without an internet connection, zero testing of fundamentals, just memorization. This shit also costs $250 per attempt. It feels like a waste of money and effort even if I passed on the first try.
Is having this under my name even remotely useful? Too late for me to weasel out atp but since I'm a junior I'm coping it would somehow be worthwhile if I get laid off (lol)