Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certifications are now Free until February 28, 2022

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Update: OCI certifications are now free until February 28, 2022

On September 8, 2021, Oracle announced that we are now offering free Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) digital training and, for a limited time, free OCI certification worldwide – including the entire expert-created OCI learning curriculum from beginner to advanced, and for various role types.
While the training will continue to be available for free, the certification free offer must be to be completed ~~December 31, 2021~~ , now it’s extended to February 28, 2022.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) helps thousands of companies and millions of users run their entire application portfolio and mission-critical workloads, in the cloud. OCI is one of the fastest-growing cloud platforms, increasing demand for OCI expertise across the globe. Advance and future-proof your career by learning OCI for free with our expert-created training and globally recognized certification program. Oracle Cloud Free Tier account can be used throughout the training and certification.

https://education.oracle.com/oracle-oci-certification

For those of you who do not want to open an Oracle Cloud Free Tier account, they offer quick and easy access to labs associated with the OCI Foundations course. You can use this free environment to practice creating virtual machines and autonomous databases. Additionally, this free environment does not require you to install any development tools on your local machine.