Certification Retirements Announcement

We're continually enhancing our portfolio to offer our learners the most relevant, up to date certifications and help them advance in their career. In this light, we will be retiring certain ITIL, PRINCE2 and DEVOPS INSTITUTE certifications.

Check out the full list of certifications that are soon to be discontinued below and make sure you have enough time to prepare for your exams before we retire them.

ITIL
PRINCE2
DEVOPS INSTITUTE

ITIL

ITIL

ITIL will continue to focus on best practices for managing IT and digitally enabled products and services.
As part of this, the following RESILIA certifications will be retired:

  • RESILIA Foundation
  • RESILIA Practitioner

Important Dates
Last day to purchase voucher: August 1, 2025
Last day of exams: February 1, 2026

PRINCE2

PRINCE2

As previously communicated, we will be retiring our PRINCE2 Value Management and PRINCE2 SCRUM certifications in all available languages, as well as the ProPath scheme, by the end of 2025. 

 

Below you will find the final dates to purchase vouchers and the last day for candidates to sit these exams.
We encourage you to share these dates with your teams and candidates as soon as possible so that they can plan ahead.

 

ProPath

  • Last day of designations issuance: July 31, 2025

 

 

PRINCE2 Value Management (MoV) – Foundation & Practitioner

  • Last Day to Purchase voucher: June 30, 2025
  • Last Day of Exams: December 31, 2025

 

 

PRINCE2 SCRUM Developer, Master I, Master II, Product Owner I, Product Owner II

  • Last Day to Purchase voucher: June 30, 2025
  • Last Day of Exams: December 31, 2025

 

 

PRINCE2 AgileSHIFT

  • Last Day to Purchase voucher: August 1, 2025
  • Last Day of Exams: February 1, 2026 

 

Below you will find the certifications retirements announced in 2024.

 

 

MSP 4th edition – Foundation, Practitioner, Practitioner Re-registration, Advanced Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner Re-registration

In French and Polish:

  • Last Day to Purchase voucher: February 28, 2025
  • Last Day of Exams: March 31, 2025

Dutch and English have been retired (September 30, 2024)

 

PRINCE2 5th Edition – Foundation, Practitioner and Re-registration

In Czech and Slovak:

  • Last Day to Purchase voucher: December 31, 2024
  • Last Day of Exams: June 30, 2025

Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish have been retired (December 31, 2024)

 

 

PRINCE2 6th Edition – Foundation and Practitioner

In Danish, Dutch and Norwegian:

  • Last Day to Purchase voucher: December 31, 2024
  • Last Day of Exams: June 30, 2025

Chinese, Italian, Japanese, German, English, English American, French, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish have been retired (December 31, 2024).

 

 

 

P3O Practitioner Re-registration in English has been retired (September 30, 2024) 


DEVOPS INSTITUTE

DEVOPS INSTITUTE

To ensure our DEVOPS INSTITUTE portfolio aligns with the most in-demand skills, we will be retiring the following certifications:

  • Certified Agile Service Manager
  • DevOps Engineering Foundation

DEVOPS INSTITUTE Business Analysis Certifications
  • Certified Associate Business Analyst
  • Certified Software Business Analyst

DEVOPS INSTITUTE Software Testing Certifications
  • Certified Associate in Software Testing
  • Certified Software Tester
  • Certified Manager of Software Testing

DEVOPS INSTITUTE Software Quality Certifications
  • Certified Associate in Software Quality
  • Certified Software Quality Analyst
  • Certified Manager of Software Quality

DEVOPS INSTITUTE Quality Software Development Certifications
  • Quality Software Development Foundation in Maintainability (C#)
  • Quality Software Development Foundation in Maintainability (Java)
  • Quality Software Development Advanced

DEVOPS INSTITUTE Software DevSkills Certifications
  • Software DevSkills Essentials Intro to Web Programming
  • Software DevSkills C# Foundation
  • Software DevSkills Java Foundation
  • Software DevSkills JavaScript Foundation
  • Software DevSkills Python Foundation
  • Software DevSkills Python Advanced
  • Software DevSkills C# Advanced
  • Software DevSkills Java Advanced
  • Software DevSkills JavaScript Advanced
  • Software DevSkills React Specialist
  • Software DevSkills Angular Specialist
  • Software DevSkills VueJS Specialist

DEVOPS INSTITUTE Lean IT Certifications
  • Lean IT Foundation
  • Lean IT Kaizen
  • Lean IT Leadership

Important Dates
Last day to purchase voucher: August 1, 2025
Last day of exams: February 1, 2026


Important
Notes

The Certification Retirements FAQs have been recently updated. This section provides valuable information and answers to common questions about certification retirements.
The Take2 option, where applicable, will not carry over beyond the last examination day per certification.
Please be informed that you can retake your exam before the final date if you have purchased a Take2 re-sit or you are planning to do so.