Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional was just 5 years od

BBC News reports Ayan Qureshi, a six-year old boy from Coventry, UK, is world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. Qureshi passed the exam when he was just five years old and has set up his own computer network at home. When the boy arrived to take the Microsoft exam, the invigilators were concerned that he was too young to participate but Qureshi's father assured them that he would be all right on his own.

He told the BBC he found the exam difficult but enjoyable, and hopes to set up a UK-based tech hub one day.

"There were multiple choice questions, drag and drop questions, hotspot questions and scenario-based questions," he 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," explained Ayan's father Asim.