Lithuanians Show Good Results

Exams in Internet are getting more popular “BrainBench”examination centre offers a wonderful opportunity to test your knowledge or to improve your knowledge in different areas – information technologies, medicine, accounting and other. And if you reach a certain result it is possible to get a diploma; well-known companies trust the evaluations of “BrainBench”. During the last year popularity of this examination centre has grown. This we may easily notice observing the data: in February number of the attested specialists was about 200 000 and at the end of July it reached 1 300 000. In winter 50 different exams were available and now more than hundred is offered. The examination centre began its activity with the examinations for IT users and professionals, now there are also for the analysts, healthcare specialists, and financiers. You may also test your English and German.

The most popular exams are: computer technicians (held 150 177, passed – 24 065), HTML programmer (113 648, 23 348), „Windows NT“ administrator (103 131, 14 320), C programmer (93 366, 26 080), the English language(91 869, 34 657), „Windows 98“ administrator (74 667, 15 801), „Java 1.2“ programmer (70 509, 8 308), basic knowledge of IT (67 491, 22 632).

For those who are interested in statistics

Those who are interested in statistics are allowed to get information how many people held the examination and how many of them passed it, it is also possible to get information on their evaluation. “Infoteka” was very interested in statistics and especially in the evaluation of Lithuanian participants.

According to the data taken in July, 28, Lithuania is in the leading position in the following categories: analysts of e-commerce fundamentals, finance analysts, “Internet explorer4” users, Internet industry analysts, “Java 1.2” programmers”, “Unix” administrators.
The country is in the second place among computer industry analysts, sorcerers of the objective programming, “Oracle 7” administrators, telecommunications analysts, “MS Outlook Express” users, “Java 1.1 programmers”.
Besides, Lithuania was also mentioned in several more tens of the best countries: “Unix” programmers- fourth place, “Java 1.1“, “JavaScript“ programmers – fifth place; “Oracle“ programmers – sixth place; C++ programmers, “Novel NetWare 4.11“, “MS Internet Server“ administrators – seventh place, “Visual FoxPro“ programmers – eighth place; C programmers – ninth place; “Oracle Developer 2000“ programers –tenth place.

One of the managers of “Infobalt” has said that Lithuania has opportunities to prepare IT products competitive in the world market and provide with with services.

What results do the neighbouring countries show?

“MS Access” programmers on the second place, “Linux Red Hat” administrators – third place, “JavaScript“ programmers – fourth place, “Oracle” programmers – fifth place, “Java 1.1” programmers – sixth place, “Windows 95” administrators – seventh place, Internet safety specialists -ninth place, Internet website programmers – tenth place. Estonians are mentioned in tenths of eight categories.

Latvians show better results. They are the leaders in the following areas: “Lotus Notes” administrators, “MS Office” specialists, “MS PowerPoint” users, Telecommunications analysts. And they are good in the other categories, too: E-commerce analysts are at the second place, “MS Excel”, “MS Word 2000” users, “Lotus Notes” programmers – at the third, “Windows 2000 Server” administrators – at the fourth, “Oracle 7”, TCP/IP administrators, Internet website programmers, “Windows API” programmers– at the fifth, project managers, “Visual FoxPro“, “Perl”, “MS SQL Server” programmers, “Informix” administrators – at the seventh, “MS Outlook Express”, “Internet Explorer 4” users, “Windows 2000” administrators – at the eight; “Java 1.2” programmers, “Linux Red Hat” administrators– at the ninth; “Windows 95” users – at the tenth.

Let’s get acquainted with the leaders of some more categories:

C++ programmers – Croatia, Computer industry analysts – Malaysia, Computer technicians – Venezuela, “Delfi” programmers – Norway, Basic knowledge of IT – Germany, Internet safety specialists – Turkey, “MS Word 2000” specialists – Russia, Computer networks technicians – United Arabic Emirates, project managers – New Zealand, “Unix” programmers – Croatia, “Windows 2000 Server” administrators – Belgium.

What meaning do the evaluations have?

Million of the specialists registered shows that IT users and professionals pay attention to them (not only Lithuanian).
Among these specialists you can find ones of “Alna”, “Ogmios Optimus”, “Penki kontinentai”, “No Magic”, “Blue Bridge” and the names of the specialists of other well-known companies and organizations. Of course while passing these examinations one can use literature or another source of help. But this shouldn’t affect the results in general.