The test (in English) will be made available to the public through www.vue.com/macromedia on September 30th, 2002. CFMX Certification will come out in French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese one month later.
People who are certified as ColdFusion 5 Developers will remain certified as such until December 31st, 2003. At that time, CF 5 certifications will no longer be listed on the Macromedia website at: http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?Id=19865&method=full.
The ColdFusion 5 Developer certification exam will be available from www.vue.com for three months after the CFMX exam is made available to the public, but then retired -- so there's a three-mnth overlap where you can take either exam.
For more info on the Macromedia Certified Professional Program, please visit:
www.macromedia.com/support/training/certified_professional_program/.