Irtiza Haider has recently become the known world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate

Irtiza Haider, a Pakistani student of class 8 from Faisalabad has
been crowned to be the world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network
Associate (CCNA). He did it by answering 80 percent of the questions
correctly in 2 hours, in order to pass the CCNA test. The CCNA, is a
certification that emphasizes on the technology and skills needed to
work with networks of 100 nodes or fewer, covering both IP and non-IP
networks including IPX and AppleTalk. Irtiza had already enrolled in
the CCNA classes back in June of 2007 however he, his father and
teacher went to Islamabad to attend the Cisco Academy Awareness Day in
Islamabad on June 19, 2007 to learn more about the prospects of the
program. In order to pass the CCNA, you need more than a good teacher
and a supportive family. One needs to grasp key networking technologies
and concepts. Further levels of certifications will extend towards the
CCNP (Cisco Certified Networking Professional) and the CCIE (Cisco
Certified Internet Export), which will place Irtiza amongst an elite
group of Networking Professionals around the world.