10/11/2001 -- Citrix Systems recently revealed to CertCities.com the status of its upcoming XP exams for its Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA) title:

• Exam 941: Citrix Load Management and Citrix Program Neighborhood currently in Beta
• Exam 911: Citrix Resource Manager and Exam 921: Citrix Installation Manager Will go into beta on Oct. 22. Registration begins Oct. 19.
• Exam 951 Citrix NFuse Beta complete; will be released in late October.

Candidates interested in participating in these betas can register with Prometric via phone (no Web registration available). There is no charge to take these exams in beta format.

Also, to clarify a point previously published on CertCities.com, Citrix told us that CCEAs are not required and never have been required to take the corresponding training in order to earn the CCEA. Although the only way to get the official courseware for the exams is to take the classes, one can become a CCEA without them, Citrix said.

For more on Citrix certification, visit http://www.citrix.com/training/cca_cert.asp. -B.N.