Upholding its continuing support and commitment in promoting the PhilNITS certification in the Philippines, AWS has again shown it’s prowess in the first ever PhilNITS-SW Regular Exam by dominating the roster of passers of the exam held on April 1, 2007. The PhilNITS-SW exam has a wider scope and focuses on the next level of knowledge and skills needed to become a globally competitive IT engineer.

Together with the utmost support and inspiration coming from the top management, and with the Company’s desire to showcase the Filipinos’ competitiveness in IT, AWS has once again topped the first PhilNITS-SW regular exam with a passing average of 85%. By producing 11 out of the total 13 passers nationwide, AWS is currently the only single organization in the Philippines that contributed to the high passing average of 65% (13 passers out of 20 examinees) for the country.

During the 2005 PhilNITS-SW Pilot Exam, AWS acquired an excellent 62% passing ratio and contributed ALL the eight (8) passers of the Philippines.

The Philippine National IT Standard (PhilNITS) Fundamental Engineer (FE) certification exam is a result of an initiative by the Ministry of Education, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan to have a common standard in the Asian region in measuring the competency of their IT engineers in the fundamentals of IT. It is now officially recognized by the Philippines and Japan, together with six other Asian countries (Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Mongolia and Vietnam).

The PhilNITS-FE examination is based on the certification program of the Japan Information Technology Engineers Examination Center (JITEC) which has the following structure and categories as illustrated.

For more information about PhilNITS, please visit its website at http://www.philnits.org