CompTIA to Retire CompTIA IT for Sales and CompTIA Green IT Exams

Due to changes in the IT skills marketplace, CompTIA will retire the CompTIA IT for Sales and CompTIA Green IT specialty certification exams at the end of this year.

The last day to take the CompTIA Green IT and CompTIA IT for Sales certification exams will be Dec. 31, 2013. The exams are available only at Pearson VUE testing centers. Those who planned on taking these exams before the end of the year are encouraged to continue their studies and seek certification. Previously purchased vouchers for CompTIA Green IT and CompTIA IT for Sales exams will be valid only until Dec. 31.

Introduced in 2010, the CompTIA Green IT certification was designed to validate knowledge and skills necessary to implement environmentally sound techniques within an organization's IT infrastructure. “The product was developed at a time when organizations felt their employees needed to know more about green IT,” said Carol Balkcom, CompTIA director of product management. “However, at this point in 2013, green IT has become embedded in the way companies generally do business.”

The CompTIA IT for Sales certification demonstrates a professional knowledge in technology basics necessary to complete sales activities with customers in technical fields. “However, there is less need than we thought for a vendor-neutral credential that provided both some basic IT and entry level sales training,” said Balkcom, adding that companies tend to train sales employees on their own vendor-specific technologies.