It looks like Oracle isn't going to be doing their Race To Certification for 2026. Too bad, that was a lot of fun last year and I was lucky enough to finish in the top 500 :-)
I had been holding off on sitting for the foundation exams waiting for the contest to begin hoping I could increase my score a bit, by getting a few more certs. After sitting for the Github Administration GH-100 exam decided to take a few of the Oracle Foundation exams could and see how it would go.
Sat for the following Exams
I passed all four of them scores from 78% to 88% so feel pretty good for going in cold. the Agentic AI Foundations Associate exam is new so that was the 78%. Browsed the training after passing the exam and it looked pretty good.
Also cleaned up some of my Oracle certifications that have expired.
Moved the following certifications to the expired section
Still plan on sitting for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (1Z0-1072-26) after doing a bit of studying for it
Also have two Certifications vouchers from the 2025 Oracle Race to Certification that I need to use before the end of October. Will probably do the Agentic AI for Oracle AI Database Professional and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Professional
| Oracle Certifications (New) |
|---|
| Oracle Agentic AI Foundations Associate (2026) |
| Oracle AI Database Foundations Associate (2026) |
| OCI AI Foundations Associate (2026) |
| OCI Foundations Associate (2026) |
They along with the rest of my certifications are listed on my certifications page.