Exam retirements

The Adobe Certified Professional 2021 exams will be retired at the end of June 2024.

The Adobe Certified Professional 2020 exams were retired at the end of June 2023 to make way for the new 2023 exams.

Certiport works closely with Apple to ensure the App Development with Swift certifications align with the most recent curriculum. Because the App Development with Swift Level 1 exam was aligned to Xcode 9 and the App Development with Swift course from the previous book collection, it was retired on June 30, 2022.

The 2020 support files for the Autodesk software were discontinued when the 2023 support was released in English. Once the 2023 support is released for other languages an Autodesk exam the candidate will only be able to take the exam using the 2021, 2022, or 2023 versions of the Autodesk Software. Please check the product release page for localization release dates.

The EC-Council Associate (ECA) program officially retired on July 1st, 2023 and Certiport suspended all ECA exam delivery. Moving forward, customers who wish to certify in cybersecurity can pursue the IT Specialist Cybersecurity certification which covers much of the same material found in the Cyber Forensics Associate exam.

The ESB-U.S. exam retired on January 31, 2023. The exam has been updated, the new exam is called ESB-U.S. v.2. 

The following IC3 GS5 exams have been retired:

• IC3 GS5 (Office 2016)  CHT
• IC3 GS5 (Office 2013) CHT

All other IC3 GS5 exams are available with no plans for retirement at this time. For a complete list of available IC3 Digital Literacy exams and localizations, please visit the Exam Releases page.

Intuit QuickBooks Desktop (QBD) software is no longer free to educators or students as of August 1, 2022. Educators are encouraged to switch from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online (QBO) which will remain free to educators and students. Certiport is following Intuit’s business decision and will gradually retire the Intuit QuickBooks Desktop exam.

The retirement schedule is as follows:

• QBD is no longer free to educators as of August 1, 2022
  • Teachers can purchase a QBD license for up to five users which can pose challenges in a classroom setting
• Intuit will support QBD until May 2024. After this date, the support for Desktop will be entirely shut down
• Certiport will offer the QBD certification until May 2024, after which we will completely retire the exam

No retirements for this program are planned at this time.

The MB-901 Dynamics 365 Fundamentals exam was retired in June 2021.

 

MOS 2013 Retirement

The Microsoft Office Specialist 2013 program will be retiring with the release of the new MOS 365 Apps exams. All 2013 exams in a given language will retire when the last MOS 365 Apps exam planned for that language is released. You can find the planned release timeframes for each MOS 365 Apps exam in each language on our Exam Releases page.

The English exam versions of the MOS 2013 suite retired on July 13. 2023.

MOS 2013 SharePoint Retirement

The MOS 2013 SharePoint exam was retired on June 30th, 2020.

The Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification program has served as a crucial asset providing and validating foundational skills for anyone venturing into the broad world of IT and has been an important part of the Certiport portfolio of exams. Microsoft decided to evolve their certifications to focus on job roles utilizing Microsoft technology. As a result of these changes, Microsoft retired the MTA program.

Important dates to be aware of: 

• On July 1, 2021, we ceased selling Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification exams. 

• The Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) exams officially retired on June 30, 2022. Effective July 1, 2022, Certiport suspended all MTA exam delivery.  

• Still have questions? Check out Microsoft’s FAQ for help.

 
Certiport will continue to offer Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS), Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE), and Microsoft Certified Fundamentals exams. 

If you have any additional questions, please reach out to your Certiport Sales Representative.

Project Management Institute (PMI): 

On April 11, 2023, the PMI Project Management Ready (Next Generation) exam was released. The previous version of the exam remained available through the end of June 2023. Then on July 1, 2023, the PMI Project Management Ready exam and learning products will be overwritten with the newest version of the exam, practice tests, and learning products and will return to the "PMI Project Management Ready" name.

All vouchers and licenses purchased before July 1, 2023, will still be valid and redeemable for the PMI Project Management Ready exam, courseware, and learning products. Nothing will change regarding expiration dates, or product use or redemption. The only exception will be MeasureUp practice tests that need to be redeemed after July 1st, 2023, will need to be converted to the CertPREP GMetrix equivalent as the MeasureUp product will not be offered for the Next Generation of the exam.

The current Unity Certified User (UCU) VR Developer exam will be updated to a new version in January 2024, but the exam name will remain the same. The new exam will change from a specialization exam (half the length of a normal exam) with UCU Programmer as a prerequisite, to a full-length exam with no prerequisite. We expect any student that has passed the UCU Programmer exam and has prepared for the current version of the VR Developer exam will also pass the new version of the exam.

Any Unity vouchers purchased for VR Developer before January can also be redeemed for the new version of the exam once it is released.  Additional courseware and practice tests are currently being developed for the new version of the exam which should be available in Q2 of 2024.