5-Year Old Boy Becomes Youngest Ever Qualified Computer Specialist

A schoolboy has become the world's youngest qualified computer specialist after passing a Microsoft Windows exam at the age of just five. Ayan Qureshi has only just started primary school, but passed the test at Birmingham City University to become a Microsoft Certified Professional. He has set a new world record for the youngest person ever to pass a Microsoft exam - at the age of five years and 11 months, beating the previous record held by six-year-old Mehroz Yawar from Pakistan.

Ayan was first introduced to computers when he was just three, by his father Asim, 43, who soon realised his son’s natural aptitude for technology. The IT consultant then built his son a computer lab at the family’s home in Coventry, West Midlands and started preparing Ayan for the complex Microsoft test.

After just five months training, Ayan sat the 'Supporting Windows 8.1' assessment for IT professionals alongside several adult candidates, even though at five he will not be able to work for another eight years.

Ayan sailed through the two hour exam in September and even finished with time to spare before finding out shortly afterwards he had passed.

"We are just so proud of him, He has plans to take an advanced test in the future but he has to concentrate on school for now. He was very interested in computers from the age of three so I started explaining to him about hardware and software and installing programmes. I found that whatever I told him, he was able to remember it the next day, so I built a computer lab in our house for him to use, and he loves it.

"I showed him how to install Windows and then decided to enter him for this exam. It wasn’t easy teaching him every day but he picked it all up in the end." said Mr Qureshi.

Source: The Telegraph