For my business & myself, I would prefer to be doing the 2019 QuickBooks Desktop recertification between November & December rather than the beginning of 2019.  Just so you know, the month of January is very busy with preparing & e-filing W-2's & 1099's along with all of the quarterly federal & state reports.

So,
I ask Intuit,
Who in Intuit came up with this idea of getting the recertification exam out in the beginning of the new year???

This was not a good decision from Intuit.