The IT Challenge…can you make it to the next round?

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ImagineCup_rgbOkay you’ve heard me talking about Imagine Cup last week, because I am really excited about the Canadian Imagine Cup Finals we’ll be hosting this year. You can start thinking about your entries for Software Design and Phone and putting together your teams. But in this post I’d like to talk about one of the other categories in Imagine Cup the IT Challenge! As Canadians were seen as the underdogs in just about everything except curling and hockey. Maybe it’s time we stepped up and showed the world we know IT as well! This category is an individual competition, so all you have to do is sign up and give it your best.

Show off your brainpower in the Imagine Cup IT Challenge. Show off your knowledge of IT and how to support infrastructures. You’ll be faced with challenges to demonstrate your proficiency in networks, databases, and servers and how they all fit together. Come on give it a shot, why not? You never know? At least try the first round and see if you make it to the second…

  1. Register for Imagine Cup
  2. Try the practice quiz
  3. Take the Round 1 quiz before the deadline, the next IT Challenge Quiz is November 15th, 2011, but you can see a full list of the dates to choose from here. Score 15 or higher to advance to round 2. If you don’t pass the first time you can take it again the next time.
  4. You can even check the leaderboard to see how you did, if you qualify, let us know, this is the time to brag! Romania, France and Poland are the current leaders. But only 610 students had entered last time I checked, so there is lots of room for a Canadian to come in and take over.
  5. If you pass the quiz in Round 1 you advance to Round 2 where you complete a case study.
  6. The top 6 competitors are invited to compete in the Final Challenge a Virtual Hands-On-Lab where you complete tasks on a Hyper-V Host server by setting up and installing tools like Windows 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, Windows 7!

All the details are posted at the Imagine Cup website – Register for the IT Challenge today