3/19/2003 -- IBM announced this week that an updated version of its IBM Certified Solution Designer: CICS Enablement for e-business exam is currently available for free.

The new exam, #531, replaces the one previously attached to this title, #530, which will be officially retired on April 30.

Now through June 17, the first 25 candidates who pass a free online pre-assessment exam can take the new exam for free.

For more information about this new exam and qualifying for the free test, click here. -B.N.