Fundamental IT Engineer Exam (PhilNITS-FE)

Overview
PhilNITS-FE is the Entry Level examination amongst the IT Engineer certification exams being implemented by PhilNITS. It is based on one of the 14 exams given by the Japan IT Engineers Examination Center (JITEC) of the Information Technology Promotions Agency (IPA) of the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI) of Japan. (you may refer to this earlier post, Overview of the PhilNITS Certification, for additional information)

IT Engineers’ Certification Exams

The PhilNITS-FE Exam is used to evaluate the knowledge and skills of an IT engineer on the fundamentals of IT. It requires the person to have the ability to develop a good program by making full use of techniques related to basic-level algorithm and data structure. The FE Exams also requires the person to be able to successfully carry out jobs such as program development, unit tests, and system integration tests.

Target Examinees, and their Career Path

Exam Description
The entire exam is paper-based, and composed of multiple-choice type of questions. Being a “whole-day” exam, it is divided into the morning and afternoon parts. In general, the morning part deals more with concepts, while the afternoon part deals with programming.

Exam Fee
P 1,800

Schedule
Twice Annually (April and October)
(please refer to PhilNITS website for exact dates of exam)

Answer Sheet

Both answer sheets for the morning and afternoon part of the exam will be provided to all examinees. See below for a view of a sample answer sheet :

Exam Venue
PhilNITS is currently being conducted in several key cities and provinces nationwide.

(For the complete list of examination centers, please refer to another blog entry entitled “PhilNITS Examination Centers”)

* please visit the PhilNITS official website (http://www.philnits.org/) for up-to-date information about the certification exam