STAFF REPORT-IBD: **Umema Adil, 13, has won laurels for Pakistan with her extraordinary achievement of becoming the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in Asp.Net.
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She has recently passed the MCTS exam for Windows Applications Development, says a press release issued here last week.
Umema is a shining star who has made herself recognized in different fields through her talent. She is excellent in ‘naat’ recitation and has won a total of 60 certificates and shields including four times the City District’s All Karachi Naat Competition; twice the All Sindh Naat Competition, All Pakistan Naat Competition and recently Sindh Hamd-o-Naat Award.
A student of grade eight in Mama Parsi Girls’ School, Karachi, Umema has also won the Best Talent Award for her accomplishments as well as various singing competitions.
**making us all proud wht a talented girl she is!! our wishes are with you!! **
I am sorry but in Pakistan - we have made a mockery of these online certifications .... any ratoo totaa without any hand on experience regarding development can get it down with the help of brain dumps and other tutoring material easily available ....
Good luck to the little girl - I hope she actually knows how to use MVS and other products for developing ASP.NET applications...
Means nothing if she doesn't understand it, and has no hands on experience. Although, unlike the Server and application Microsoft exams, you can't really rattafy the programming exams.
Let’s not “judge” these kids - some of them are actually working alongside other professionals on various projects. Besides, having worked in IT, I know plenty of so-called certified professionals who only have credentials without work experience and they learn the practical aspects later on in their jobs etc. - nothing wrong with it per say…
I dunno specifically about this girl, but the Pakistani kid who was the youngest MCP/MCTS back in 2009 (got his certs between ages 9 to 12) had his hands full at the age of 12 with projects ranging from teaching coding to University students, and working on the development of XBox and Microsoft’s Touchscreen platforms. Here’s the video interview:
our wishes are with you!! **