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Taiwan students have won the world championship for four consecutive years
Certiport executive vice president, Jim Holm, visiting Taiwan
Kick off the MOS World cup computer application skills competition

2012 MOS Worldwide Competition is coming soon, Taiwan team has won the world championship for four consecutive years, Certiport executive vice president, Jim Holm, visit Taiwan kicking off the Taiwan Competition with Elite-it CEO, Yvonne Chiu. Taiwan team will be selected from this competition and compete with delegation more than 70 countries at the worldwide final competition hold in Las Vegas,USA.

"It has been 12 years since the first Taiwan competition started; the number of participants begins with multiples of growth each year, which shows more and more students realize the importance of information technology. The student trained by Elite-it have won the world championship for four consecutive years already, thus Certiport thinks highly of Taiwan competition this year, Executive Vice President- Jim Holm especially comes to Taiwan to announce the Taiwan competition begins, looking forward to seeing more students to participate and wish to see Taiwanese students show their extraordinary talents in the Worldwide Competition in Las Vegas," said Elite-it CEO Yvonne Chiu.

Jim Holm said in his speech. "Taiwan has paid much attention requiring students to develop computer skills. In additional to support from government policy, many social organizations also put efforts into training students to enhance the ability of their computer skills. CEO Yvonne Chiu,who I have known for years, has lead Elite-it as the only organization to train students as Taiwan delegation to participate Microsoft Office Specialist Certiport Worldwide Competition for the past 12 years, her efforts and achievements is remarkable." Certiport values Taiwan competition very much and Jim Holm visits to represent headquarter to co-announce the Taiwan competition begins with Elite-it.

Jim stated that the Elite-it MOS Competition is endorsed by Certiport USA, headquartered in the state of Utah and that the winners will be the only students from Taiwan going to the Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office in Las Vegas later this year. We would like to invite any interested students to participate in the Elite-it competition which will be held in in Taiwan, beginning on April 7th. This competition will help identify the best users of Microsoft Office in Taiwan. We wish all of the competitors the best of luck in their efforts to prepare for and compete in the competition this year.

In addition, Jim Holm discussed that Elite-it is an essential partner in Taiwan and has proven successful in delivering industry-recognized certification programs with Certiport for the past 10 years. Elite-it is one of the top ten partners in the world for Certiport and one of the initial recipients of the coveted Certiport Platinum Solution Provider membership. We hope that all the testing center partners and higher-ed partners will continue to see success in their work with Elite-it in the Taiwan market.

In the End, Certiport Executive Vice President Jim Holm and Elite-it CEO Yvonne Chiu announce together the MOS worldwide Competition in Taiwan begins.

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Certiport, a Pearson VUE business, is the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery and program management services delivered through an expansive network of over 12,000 Certiport Authorized Testing Centers worldwide. Certiport manages a sophisticated portfolio of leading certification programs including: the official Microsoft Office Specialist certification program, the Microsoft Technology Associate certification program, the Microsoft Certified Educator program, the Adobe® Certified Associate certification program, the Adobe® Certified Expert program, the HP Accredited Technical Associate, the CompTIA Strata™ IT Fundamentals, the Autodesk Certified User certification program, the Intuit QuickBooks Certified User certification program, and the IC³ Digital Literacy certification. Certiport reliably delivers over three million tests each year throughout the secondary, post-secondary, workforce, and corporate technology markets in more than 148 countries and 27 languages worldwide. For more information, please visit www.certiport.com or follow Certiport on Twitter at www.twitter.com/certiport.

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