World Youngest Microsoft Certified!

Ayan Qureshi

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.

In doing so 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 Qureshi has passed the 'Supporting Windows 8.1' assessment
• At five years and 11 months he is the youngest to pass Microsoft exam
• He was first introduced to computers by his father when he was three
• Ayan now has his own computer lab at his home in Coventry
• He sat the exam alongside adults and finished with time to spare
• Test is usually taken by people who want to become IT technicians
• Invigilators said he was too young for test, but Microsoft let him sit it