I won't comment as to the validity of certification, but free certification? What's to stop me from taking the test a 100 times till I get %100? In the real world (with like Java for example), certification costs like ~$150, so people don't endup taking the test 100 times. The only way I could see a perl certification scheme is if it wasn't free, which brings up a whole bunch of other issues (who's gonna run it, who can give out certificates .... )

So now only the rich have the option to get certified that way :)

--
Allolex