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Most certifications by vendors of specific products are a waste of time. Unless you're actively looking to be running Oracle's distro, it's going to be meaningless to employers. I actively go out of my way to avoid hiring people who list random and disparate certifications in their resume.
Certain general areas of study like CISSP or CCSP I may pay attention to if they've worked on large projects or production deployments because those are specific to an area of study and not a product.
Why though? If something from the list is relevant, decide how much of a positive it is. If it isn't then just skip, but why avoid?
Not him, but it makes sense to avoid the kinds of people that only have "experience in theory."
Essentially, those who think they know something because they did something else.