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| Time: 00:30 EST/05:30 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Bill Gates is his idol. His dream? Achieving more than what Gates has, ‘‘especially in the computer field.’’ Meet eight-year-old Maulin Raval who recently cleared the online Microsoft Certified Professional Exam in Networking. Maulin’s the youngest person to get the MCP certificate, claims the centre from where he cleared the exam. That’s not surprising. A student of Class IV at Atmiya Shishu Vidhya Mandir in Rajkot, Maulin can instal almost all operating systems and assemble as well as disassemble hardware on his own. | ||
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| #1 By 7390 (63.211.44.114) at 5/16/2003 6:55:42 AM |
| nicb, to be fair to the kid most certification tests are like that. They are not testing real world experience but how much of the material you actually know. That is more for a job interviewer to flesh out. |
| #2 By 2332 (65.221.182.2) at 5/16/2003 9:47:12 AM |
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#6 - "The amount of 2000 MCSEs I work with who can't even update a video driver is astounding"
I find that hard to believe, unless their MCSE was obtained a long time ago. MCSE is not a trivial thing to achieve. At least, not anymore. |
| #3 By 61 (65.32.171.144) at 5/16/2003 10:09:42 AM |
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CooCoo:
No, he is saying that the word "install" was spelled as "instal" (only one l on it) in the paragraph above. |
| #4 By 6859 (12.219.23.70) at 5/16/2003 6:58:30 PM |
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This tells me a few things:
(1) That test is too easy. No kid should pass that exam. I smell rewrite. He probably used the braindumps. (2) What's so hard about installing an OS? I do that all the time on my spare machine. That's not an accomplishment, but a necessary skill. (3) That kid needs to spend more time outside playing with his friends, if he has any. (4) The value of my MCP just got lower. |
| #5 By 125 (208.181.21.221) at 5/16/2003 7:31:03 PM |
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Some of you might remember a couple years back there was a kid in India who passed the CISSP exam and was certified at age 16.
Given the relative ease one can pass a MCP exam, I can see an 8 year old with a photographic memory passing... That said, I would prefer to see Microsoft implement either a new designation or modify the existing MCSE certification to include a requirement for prior work experience (I've had enough post-MCSE co-op students in need of hand holding working for me before to drive me nuts). |
| #6 By 61 (65.32.171.144) at 5/17/2003 12:25:04 AM |
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I wouldn't say the test material is too easy, more like how they test it is.....
If you truely understand the material, then you shouldn't really need any hand-holding once you start off in the real-world scenarios... those that do need the hand-holding just don't understand the stuff they were just tested on, but merely, as you said, memorized the answers to the questions. |
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