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World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old
HughPickens.com writes Gurvinder Gill writes at BBC that Ayan Qureshi is the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional after passing the tech giant's exam when he was just five years old. Qureshi's father introduced his son to computers when he was three years old. He let him play with his old computers, so he could understand hard drives and motherboards. "I found whatever I was telling him, the next day he'd remember everything I said, so I started to feed him more information," Qureshi explained. "Too much computing at this age can cause a negative effect, but in Ayan's case he has cached this opportunity." Ayan has his own computer lab at his home in Coventry, containing a computer network which he built and spends around two hours a day learning about the operating system, how to install programs, and has his own web site.
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) is a certification that validates IT professional and developer technical expertise through rigorous, industry-proven, and industry-recognized exams. MCP exams cover a wide range of Microsoft products, technologies, and solutions. When the boy arrived to take the Microsoft exam, the invigilators were concerned that he was too young to be a candidate. His father reassured them that Ayan would be all right on his own. "There were multiple choice questions, drag and drop questions, hotspot questions and scenario-based questions," Ayan's father told the BBC Asian Network. "The hardest challenge was explaining the language of the test to a five-year-old. But he seemed to pick it up and has a very good memory."
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) is a certification that validates IT professional and developer technical expertise through rigorous, industry-proven, and industry-recognized exams. MCP exams cover a wide range of Microsoft products, technologies, and solutions. When the boy arrived to take the Microsoft exam, the invigilators were concerned that he was too young to be a candidate. His father reassured them that Ayan would be all right on his own. "There were multiple choice questions, drag and drop questions, hotspot questions and scenario-based questions," Ayan's father told the BBC Asian Network. "The hardest challenge was explaining the language of the test to a five-year-old. But he seemed to pick it up and has a very good memory."
installing Windows 2000 Server. I was a Novell certified engineer and could do it in my sleep.
You woke up and discovered you had installed Windows 2000?
Quite the scary illness you've got there. I'd rather find my horse's cut head.
You woke up and discovered you had installed Windows 2000?
Quite the scary illness you've got there. I'd rather find my horse's cut head.
I don't think they added the horse head option to the installer until Windows XP...
add an arm wrestling component to the test.
I used to refer to it as Minesweeper Certified Solitaire Expert...
It took me 3 attempts to pass that exam and now there are 5 year olds who can pass it?
Indeed. You need a mental age of 5 years to pass.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Obligatory: "Must Consult Someone Else".
Obligatory: "Must Consult Someone Else".
I guess this is the age of Oracle but we used to say "Moron Confused by Sun Equipment"
Can we do Novell and Cisco certs next?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
"the basics of regex, sql, bash, etc. Let alone what ARP is."
never ask a question that can be answered by the web,,,
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
When I was a video game tester at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder), we kept a five-year-old in the inventory closet in case we ever needed a console button smasher. After you turn 30-years-old, you're likely to smash the console than smash the buttons.
I used to work tier 2 tech support for RoadRunner. People, usually from Florida, would call in complain their internet wasn't working. I would always get people trying to let me know just how smart they were.
Customer: "Hi, I'm A++ and MCP certified and I have a certificate from Devry so I know my stuff but I can't get my internet working"
Me: "What makes you say it isn't working Sir, what exactly is going on?"
Customer: "I can't load any websites except ones I've seen before, I tried restarting but it's just doing the same thing"
Me: "...type ipconfig, what do you see?"
Customer: "...static IP..."
Me: "Sir, do you have a kid who uses your computer for gaming? You have a static IP, that's the issue. follow these instructions and it will work..."
Customer: "No, I certainly don't have a static IP. I looked for that. The issue must be on your end"
Me: *FACEPALM!!!!!!!
comclusion: MCP MEANS NOTHING!!!!!!
MCSE = Must Call Someone Experienced
H/R Drone: Do you have 5 years experience in the field?
Kid: I am 5!
A MS cert does not trump a computing degree.
It depends on how much the five year-old costs compared to someone with a computing degree.
That is all.
"Why it's so simple, a five year-old child could understand it. Now go out and get me a five year old child"
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