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FE Fundamental IT Engineers  Exam

The Fundamental IT Engineers Exam (FE) is 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. These exams are based on an established   Information Technology Engineers Skill Standards (ITSS).

 

The FE Exam is used to evaluate the knowledge and skills of an IT personnel (engineer) on the fundamentals of I.T.

The Fundamental IT Engineers Exam (FE) 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.

SW Software Engineers  Exam

This exam is given once a year by the same agencies as the FE exam. The exam is translated to English by JITEC and given to  people who have at least 2 years work experience in software development and who are competent in basic software,  middleware and applications software.

Basic software: Able to perform design, developemnt, customization and techical support on basic software management of the whole computer system and provide basic functions, such as operation system, language, network etc. that exploits hardware characteristics.

Middleware: Able to perform design, development, customization and technical support on platform-dependent software that provides functions such as database management, transaction processing functions and distributed object environment.

Applications Software: Able to perform design, development and technical support on software that supports business transformation, business process improvement and increase of work efficiency utilizing information system for a certain purpose or in a certain area such as business packages (including  ERP and CRM) and office suite.


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The Standards and the Certification Exam was donated by Japan to the ASEAN countries last Oct. 2000 during the ASEAN + China, Japan,&  Korea Economic Ministers Meeting held in Chang Mai, Thailand.  Initially, all the exam questions were formulated by JITEC. But since the establishment of the Information Technology Professional Examinations Council (ITPEC) last Nov. 11, 2005, composed of the ff. organizations- JITEC (Japan), METEOR (Malaysia), NECTEC (Thailand), VITEC (Vietnam), PhilNITS (Philippines) and NTP (Mongolia), the FE Certification Exam consists of questions contributed by the member organizations of ITPEC, with the larger share coming from JITEC.

The FE exam is given twice a year on a commonly agreed upon date: usually the first Sunday of April and the last Sunday of October (depending on the Eid Festival of Muslim countries which normally falls on the 1st or 2nd Sunday of October).

 

 The exam is given in English except in Japan, Vietnam and Myanmar.


Why the change in name?

The JITSE Phil Foundation, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last April 10, 2002, had its application for change of name to Philippine National IT Standards Foundation approved last August 31,2004. The name has been changed to correct the misconception that the standards being implemented are only for the Japanese market.

Upon close examination and evaluation of the JITSE standard by the Bureau of Product Standards of the Dept. of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the National Computer Center (NCC), it was found that the JITSE standard is equivalent to the European and American standard on the Fundamentals of IT.

The Bureau of Product Standards has therefore approved the recognition of the Philnits  (JITSE) standard as a Philippine National Standard with product no. PNS 2030:2003 on May 29, 2003.

Recommended/Preparatory Training

At least two years College Course in Computer Science with training on Computer Science  fundamentals, Hardware, Software, Data Base Fundamentals, Networking Fundamentals , Operations Research, Basic Project Management , Systems Security and Programming Language ( C & JAVA)