I'm always looking for great new certification websites. If you have one you'd like me to take a look at, let me know. And I'll do the same for you. ... Read More

Cisco recently revamped its highest-level certification, the Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE), making substantial changes to the exam methodology as well as the content. One of Cisco's best-known CCIEs, Scott Morris ... Read More

Oracle reports that it has extended the beta program for its "Oracle Database 11g: Performance Tuning" certification exam (1Z1-054). A beta is a pre-release product. Companies release betas so that customers ... Read More

Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to get folks to subscribe to its education blog, Born To Learn, in an unusual way. Every day from now through the last day of ... Read More

CDW Government, Inc. said in a recently-released report that although virtualization technology is increasing in popularity, education and training are sorely lacking. In its 2009 Federal Virtualization Report, CDW said that ... Read More

Certification Magazine has an interesting article about cert exam development. It's mostly a series of quotes from Paul Sorensen, global director of certification at Oracle University. Oracle has a large ... Read More

Microsoft has refreshed, reorganized and updated its certification site. The reason, writes Krista Wall on the Microsoft Learning blog, is that site traffic was low because it was hard to ... Read More

Several testers have taken Microsoft’s 70-680 beta exam, and found it to be less than challenging. The test is titled "MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring." The exam came out in beta (i.e. ... Read More

Open source vendor Red Hat Software has published a list of the Top 10 reasons to get certified -- in Red Hat, of course. Frankly, the list is a little underwhelming, ... Read More

Citrix, the industry leader in remote application delivery, is expanding its top-level administrator certifications to encompass the growing field of IT virtualization. The Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer (CCEE) for Virtualization, and ... Read More

A recent survey by independent security vendor (ISC)2 shows that security certification is an important component of landing a job in IT security. The survey of (ISC)2 members asked how late ... Read More

My last blog on Twitter reminded me: I want all of you to keep me up to date on what's happening in tech certification. That means that if you just ... Read More

Do you Twitter? I admit that although I'm an extremely plugged-in guy, I haven't joined the Twitter revolution until the last week. I've been wondering about the effectiveness of Twitter. Do ... Read More

Online certification training has been around for years. What is newer is online training with real, live instructors. (ISC)2, which offers security certifications, is doing just that with the highly-regarded ... Read More

President Obama has dramatically raised awareness of Internet security by deciding to name a cybersecurity coordinator and giving the appointee a White House post. According to the Cyberspace Policy Review, the ... Read More

Microsoft's certification-focused Born to Learn blog has a cool series of articles on the exam development process, from initial concept through published test. The process has 10 pre- and two post-publishing ... Read More