Ayan Qureshi is a year one student at Clifford Bridge Primary School, Coventry. 
 
 Ayan developed interest in computers and high tech gadgets in the very early age to the point that today he claimed the title of being world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. 
 
 He built his own home computer lab and like to spend his leisure time in the Lab. He was very happy when he setup his first computer network in the Lab. 
 
 Ayan achieved the land mark of being the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional on the 27th September 2014. ||||| Image copyright Ayan Qureshi Image caption Ayan Qureshi has a network of computers at his home in Coventry, UK. 
 
 A boy from Coventry has become the youngest computer specialist in the world. 
 
 Ayan Qureshi is now a Microsoft Certified Professional after passing the tech giant's exam when he was just five years old. 
 
 Ayan, now six, whose father is an IT consultant, has set up his own computer network at home. 
 
 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. 
 
 Mr Qureshi introduced his son to computers when he was three years old. He let him play with his old computers, so he could understand hard drives and motherboards. 
 
 "I found whatever I was telling him, the next day he'd remember everything I said, so I started to feed him more information," he explained. 
 
 "Too much computing at this age can cause a negative effect, but in Ayan's case he has cached this opportunity." 
 
 Ayan has his own computer lab at his home in Coventry, containing a computer network which he built. 
 
 He spends around two hours a day learning about the operating system and how to install programmes. 
 
 When the boy arrived to take the Microsoft exam, the invigilators were concerned that he was too young to be a candidate. 
 
 His father reassured them that Ayan would be all right on his own. 
 
 The test is usually taken by people who want to become IT technicians. 
 
 Image copyright Ayan qureshi Image caption The exam invigilators thought Ayan Qureshi was too young to be a candidate 
 
 Ayan's mother Mamoona is training to be a GP. 
 
 The family moved to England from Pakistan in 2009. 
 
 "I'm very happy and very proud, I don't want to see him set a world record every day. But I want him to do his best whatever he does in his life," she said. 
 
 Ayan says he hopes to launch a UK-based IT hub similar to America's Silicon Valley one day, which he intends to call E-Valley. 
 
 He also wants to start his own company. ||||| Get daily updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email 
 
 A gifted young boy from Coventry has become a qualified computer specialist - at the age of six. 
 
 Ayan Qureshi, who lives in Walsgrave, has become the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. 
 
 The Clifford Bridge Primary School pupil was just five years and 11 months when he passed the exam last month - but he’s now turned six. 
 
 The test is normally taken just before or after university by young adults aiming to be information technology technicians. 
 
 When Ayan and his dad Asim arrived at Birmingham City University invigilators were shocked to see such a small candidate. They said he couldn’t take the exam. 
 
 But a phone call to Microsoft put problems right and Ayan took his place at a computer alongside the other adult candidates. 
 
 He finished the online exam before the allowed time of two hours was up and was delighted to hear he had passed. 
 
 The certificate, which he keeps in his bedroom, shows he can use operating systems created by USA computing giant Microsoft. 
 
 Ayan, now six but five when he sat the exam, set a new world record. 
 
 The previous youngest Microsoft Certified Professional was Mehroz Yawar from Pakistan who passed at the age of six and a half. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mr Qureshi, an information technology consultant, said: “From a very early age he used to watch me on the computer. He used to sit beside me and watch very carefully. 
 
 “He started playing with the computer and using all my spare hardware.” 
 
 Mr Qureshi created a computer laboratory for Ayan in the family home. 
 
 After school each day Ayan would spend several hours working in it learning how to network computers and install and use software and hardware. 
 
 He also used some distance learning lessons from London based computer training company IT Bolts. 
 
 It took five months of daily sessions in the lab to be ready to pass the exam. 
 
 So far Ayan hasn’t set his heart on any particular job. But he hopes for a career involving his favourite subjects of maths and computing. 
 
 Although he isn’t yet working towards another challenge he still enjoys time in the computing lab. 
 
 Ayan has a brother aged three. 
 
 The family live in Dorchester Way, Walsgrave. Ayan’s mother Mamoona is a doctor training at University Hospital Coventry to be a general practitioner.
– Ayan Qureshi is a Microsoft Certified Professional—but not just any professional. Having passed the requisite exam last month at the age of 5 years and 11 months (or "5.11," as per his website), the UK resident is the youngest officially recognized computer specialist in the world. Ayan, who built his own home computer lab as well as his first computer network in that lab, hopes to start his own company and even launch a UK-based IT hub modeled after Silicon Valley that he would call E-Valley, reports the BBC. As for the test itself, administrators initially blocked him because of his age, notes the Coventry Telegraph; they relented after a call to Microsoft headquarters. Ayan, now 6, says it was hard but fun: "There were multiple choice questions, drag and drop questions, hotspot questions, and scenario-based questions," he told the BBC Asian Network. Ayan's father, an IT consultant who moved his family to the UK from Pakistan in 2009, says he let Ayan play with his old computers as a 3-year-old so he could learn about motherboards and hard drives. When his son remembered everything he told him from one day to the next, his father kept teaching him more. "Too much computing at this age can cause a negative effect, but in Ayan's case he has cached this opportunity," he says. Ayan devotes two hours a day to learning about operating systems and installing programs. Ayan's mother is proud of her son but doesn't want him setting too many world records. "I want him to do his best whatever he does in his life," she says. (This 10-year-old graduated from high school this year.)