From Oracle’s website

Effective June 1, 2011, Java, Oracle Solaris, MySQL, and NetBeans certification exams will be offered through a new test delivery partner – Pearson VUE – and will no longer be available through Prometric.

This will consolidate all Oracle Certification exams within the operations of a single testing vendor so we can provide better service and global testing coverage for these Oracle certification exams. Pearson VUE currently has over 5,000 test centers worldwide in 165 countries.

To help prepare you for this transition, here are some important dates for you to be aware of:

• If you are planning to take an exam on/after June 1: Registration will begin at Pearson VUE on May 16, 2011 for all scheduled exams on or after June 1. Visit pearsonvue.com/oracle on or after this date to create a new web account and get started.
• If you are currently registered to take an exam with Prometric or planning to take an exam on or before May 31: You can continue to register at Prometric through May 23, 2011 (walk-in registrations will be permitted through May 31, 2011), but you must complete your exam by June 1, 2011.

If you currently have a Sun or Oracle exam voucher or exam retake voucher:All vouchers will still be valid through their original expiration date and will be redeemable with Pearson VUE starting on May 16, 2011.

Full announcement can be viewed here

The test costs $2.99 and 6 questions are free to try.

More details about the exam 1Z0_050

Time : 105 minutes

Number of questions : 77

Passing score : 61%

Exam Price: US$ 195

This Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators practice test comes with money back gurantee. If not satosfied, we will refund your money.

Objectives of this 1Z0_050 exam :

Installation and Upgrade Enhancements
-     Install Oracle Database 11g
-     Upgrade your database to Oracle Database 11g
-     Oracle Direct NFS
-     Use online patching
Storage Enhancements
-     Setup ASM fast mirror resynch
-     Understand scalability and performance enhancements
-     Setup ASM disk group attributes
-     Use various new manageability options
-     Use the md_backup, md_restore, and ASMCMD extensions
Intelligent Infrastructure Enhancements
-     Creating and using AWR baselines
-     Setting AWR Baseline Metric Thresholds
-     Control Automated Maintenance Tasks
-     Using Database Resource Manager New Features
-     Using new scheduler features
Performance Enhancements
-     ADDM Enhancements
-     Setup Automatic Memory Management
-     Enhancements in statistics collection
Partitioning and Storage-Related Enhancements
-     Implement the new partitioning methods
-     Employ Data Compression
-     SQL Access Advisor Overview
-     Create SQL Access Advisor analysis session using PL/SQL
Using RMAN Enhancements
-     Managing Archive logs
-     Duplicating a Database
-     Back up large files in multiple sections
-     Perform Archival Backups
-     Manage Recovery Catalogs
-     Create a virtual private catalog for RMAN

Using Flashback and Logminer
-     Overview of Flashback Data Archive
-     Manage Flashback Data Archive
-     Back-out transactions using Flashback Transaction
-     Working with Logminer
Diagnosability Enhancements
-     Setup Automatic Diagnostic Repository
-     Use Support Workbench
-     Run health checks
-     Use SQL Repair Advisor
Database Replay
-     Overview of Workload Capture and Replay
-     Using Workload capture and replay
Using the Data Recovery Advisor
-     Overview of Data Recovery Advisor
-     Repairing data failures using Data Recovery Advisor
-     Perform proactive health check of the database
Security: New Features
-     Configure the password file to use case sensitive passwords
-     Encrypt a tablespace
-     Configure fined grained access to network services
Oracle SecureFiles
-     Use Secure File LOBS to store documents with Compression, Encryption, De-duplication, Caching
-     Use SQL and PL/SQL APIs to access Secure File LOBS

Miscellaneous New Features
-     Describe and use the enhanced online table redefinition
-     Enhanced finer grained dependency management
-     Use Enhanced DDL – Apply the improved table lock mechanism, Create invisible indexes
-     Use Query Result Cache and PL/SQL Result Cache
-     Adaptive Cursor Sharing
-     Temporary Tablespace Enhancements
SQL Performance Analyzer
-     Overview of SQL Performance Analyzer
-     Using SQL Performance Analyzer
SQL Plan Management
-     SQL Plan Baseline Architecture
-     Set up SQL Plan Baseline
-     Using SQL Plan Baseline
Automatic SQL Tuning
-     Setup and modify Automatic SQL Tuning
-     Interpret reports generated by Automatic SQL Tuning

• The exam format and objectives for each of the exams will be the same as they were previously under Sun so there is no impact to those preparing to get certified.
• If you are currently holding a certification exam voucher for one of these exams, they will be valid through their expiration date and can be redeemed at Prometric.
• If you currently hold an existing Sun certification, your current Sun certification title will still be recognized under the Oracle certification program and will continue to be valid. You can upgrade your certification at any time to the latest technology release to receive an Oracle certification title.
• If you are in the process of preparing for a certification exam that you will take after September 1, 2010, you will receive an Oracle certification title and will have use of Oracle Certification Program Logo for endorsement of your proven skill by Oracle Corporation.
• Candidates taking exams between September 1-3 may see either Sun and/or Oracle-branded exam titles while registering and taking exams during this transition period.

More details can be found here

You can find spring training locations here…

http://mylearn.vmware.com/portals/springsource/search/findcourse.cfm?ui=s2

You need to get registered to see information on fees, location etc.

If you don’t want to go for spring training then you must have experience in working on spring. Spring source such candidates as ‘grandfathered’ candidates. You need to provide a ‘Grandfather Application’ providing proof of their experience on spring. Some more details are given below

Spring Framework is offered to two groups of people: those who have attended a 4-day Core Spring training course and those who haven’t attended the course but have gained knowledge of Spring from other sources, such as private study, client projects, forums etc.  We call this second group, ‘grandfathered’ candidates.

A grandfathered candidate is a person who has not attended the four-day Core Spring class but who has satisfied any one of the following criteria:

•             Demonstrable evidence of (1) successful Spring solution completed. Evidence will include customer name and contact information reference.

•             Demonstrable evidence of adding value to Spring Products and/or the Community. Candidate should provide supporting information from one or more of the following examples:

a. Forum post
b. Software patches
c. Articles promoting Spring or explaining Spring
d. User Group involvement

•             Possession of a Spring Framework Professional Certification from a previous version of Spring.

These are the only ways in which you can obtain a voucher in order to take the certification exam and become a Certified Spring Professional. More information including sample questions and costs can be found here: http://www.springsource.com/training/certification/springprofessional

Clck here to see the Grandfather Application.

Update : Danielbutcher has added a Spring Certification practice test.