From TechRepublic:
A Pakistani girl has qualified as a Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of 9.
Arfa Karim of Multan has officially become the youngest MCP in Pakistan, and one of the youngest in the world. Karim, now 10, met with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates last week–an experience she later described as second only to visiting Disneyland.
To attain the credential–at any age–a person has to display technical proficiency in areas such as .Net, Visual Studio 6.0 and Windows Server 2003.
Karim got excited about technology, when her father bought her a computer–primarily to use for e-mail, according to S. “Soma” Somasegar, a corporate vice president in Microsoft’s tools division.