WA-based L7 has invested $50,000 towards its training infrastructure to help obtain Microsoft Silver Learning Certification

Oracle made significant increases this week in the cost of technical certification exams for Sun and Oracle technologies.

If the doomsayers prove right, throngs of laid-off tech workers will soon be competing for only a handful of available jobs. Technical certifications, once thought to be the ticket to higher pay and more prestige, may be needed to simply avoid the unemployment line. The trick is to get the ones that will really help keep or land that job, since it turns out many certifications won't be all that useful.