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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."
The MCP cert is a way to prove you are more knowledgeable about the Windows client computer than your grandmother that calls you for help. Like the A+ exam, I found it remedial. MCPs are not MSCEs. I enjoy how the people who insult MCSEs either 1) do not have it, or 2) have a different certification (NCE). And yes, your anecdotal stories are very cute.
This is 95% of all MCP holders.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
The days of the NT 4 paper MCSE are over - Microsoft fixed that by making the infrastructure exam a complete bitch several years back.
MCP is only one of the MCSE tests though, so pick the easiest (workstation cert) and get yourself a certificate in about an hour of brain dump reading.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Can confirm. Road Runner ISP was utter shit in FL. Weekly outages, particularly on Wednesdays for some reason. They lost a huge amount of business when FiOS was rolled out in our county, and the remaining RR users are the elderly that still have AOL email adressess, and the poor. They went from rock solid to utter garbage in the space of about three years.
Well the thing about certifications are memorization, some people can memorize a large volume of information for a short period of time with no real understanding of the subject. I aced history in high school, I would read chapters from the textbook the night before and ace tests but not retain any information. The teacher accused me of cheating but was even more disappointed when he found out I wasn't actually cheating and how I did it.
I've worked with plenty of fresh out school kids with degrees and certs that they got mostly by memorization. They end up learning on the job.
I remember earlier in my career, looking for work with a tertiary qualification and 4 years experience in the IT workforce under my belt (I worked in IT before, during and after tertiary study) and being turned down by potential employers because I wasn't "Microsoft Certified"
Nevermind the fact that at least 2 of the papers I studied toward that tertiary qualification revolved around configuring and supporting Microsoft networks and I'd been working with Microsoft technologies full time for about 2-3 years prior.
I later just got the damn certification anyway, because I needed the job prospects that came with it. I learnt very little by doing it.