Tuesday, August 19, 2025

How to prepare for ITEE Examination

The Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) is a set of vendor neutral international IT examinations held in multiple Asian countries. These examinations are held by the government of each participating country as their national IT certification through the international IT Professionals Examination Council (ITPEC). These are comprehensive exams related to computer science or IT combined with expected skills for jobs. ITEE is an international certification based on Japanese IT standards and also is a national certification of the Bangladesh Government. 

The examination has multiple levels:

  • Level 1: IT Passport Examination (IP)
  • Level 2: Fundamental IT Engineer Examination (FE)
  • Level 3: Applied IT Engineer Examination (AP)
  • Level 4: Advanced Examination (AE)

In Bangladesh, level 1 and level 2 exams are organized by Bangladesh IT Examination Council (BDITEC) under Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Bangladesh Government.

Syllabus:

The exam has no negative marking. Level 1 and 2 have multiple choice questions (MCQ) only. The level 2 (FE) exam has two parts: subject A: morning and subject B: afternoon. Regardless of the performance in the morning exam/subject A, please still attend the afternoon exam/subject B in full. Passing in any part, will help in attending the remaining part during the next two times if required. The exam is held two times a year. Dates and past questions are available at the ITPEC website: https://itpec.org/

CS/CSE students in their 6th semester and onwards are strongly encouraged to register for Level-2: FE Exam (Subject A Morning & Afternoon) from http://registration.bditec.gov.bd/

Students from any department or study program in their 1st to 5th semesters are encouraged to register for Level-1: IT Passport Exam (IP) from http://registration.bditec.gov.bd/ 

I would recommend starting to practice with Bismillah from the past few exam questions:

Good support is available via the Facebook group, ITEE FE(level-2) Candidate only: https://www.facebook.com/groups/itee.fe

Anybody posting a question or its picture there usually gets quick responses. It is a good place to network with past passers as well. Its files sections have some practice materials too: https://www.facebook.com/groups/itee.fe/files/files

Registration and preparation/practice books are at https://registration.bditec.gov.bd/

Free training/e-learning materials are available at Lightboat: https://lightboat.lightworks.co.jp/en-promotion


In-person trainings are organized by BCC in some universities and sometimes at BCC almost every year around the registration month. 

Analysis of some past questions maybe available at the translated website fe-siken.com: https://www-fe--siken-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Further recommended reading:


Cloud/Utility/Service computing
Slide: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa09/tech/slides/fox.pdf

Report: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28.pdf






URL spec 

Cybersecurity: 

LinkedList item removal: 

Floating point guide: 

SQL query join types: 

References:

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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Changing default browswer on RedHat

Default Firefox browser on RedHat was last updated to 115.7.0esr (Extended Support Release), titled Mozilla Firefox for Fedora, Fedora - 1.0 (?)

As obvious, this browser is not supported by many web-applications. There is difficulty in YouTube playbacks as well.

An alternative was to use Flatpak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak) based Firefox. However, the default firefox was set as

[user@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop

However, the desktop file for the Flatpak based Firefox is located at /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop

To change to the Flatpak based Firefox,

[user@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings set default-web-browser org.mozilla.firefox.desktop
 

The change can be verified using 

[user@localhost ~]$ xdg-settings check default-web-browser org.mozilla.firefox.desktop
yes


It worked! 


Credits:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/614899/setting-a-flatpak-app-as-the-default-web-browser

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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Data Visualization

 Seeing is believing! Having proper visualization is a key part of communication skills. Understanding data, reports, news depends on how well the information was visualized. There are many tools and techniques for data visualization. Some are listed below:

Tools

Books:

Study topics:

  • Descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
  • Color science
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Websites for learning

 E-learning has become an essential part of self development to upgrade ourselves. Some websites provide both training and certifications that we can add to our CV or LinkedIn profile. Other website websites allow skilling up for free. Let's learn something for fun or for potential future benefit. It may be beneficial to have and not need than need and not have. Let us learn as much as possible so that when the opportunities arrive, we can utilize them. Let's learn something ...

General:

 

AI

 

Statistical Learning:

Cybersecurity:

 

Web

 

Creative

  

Finding courses across multiple websites

 

Getting started with key courses

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Monday, October 9, 2023

Recommendation Letter or Reference Letter for Higher Education or Jobs

Recommendation or reference letters are often required for higher education or job opportunities. If the teachers are provided with correct information about ourselves, like student ID, courses, semesters, etc. where they had the opportunity to observe or supervise us, it would be convenient for them to help us by providing a Letter of Recommendation (LoR). A teacher may have taught multiple students having the same full name! It is recommended to approach teachers at least one month before it is needed, sometimes even more.

This blog post is not just a heads-up for the related processes but also tries to provide a guideline for the students. It may be helpful for us so that we can start preparation in our freshmen years. Hopefully, by the time we graduate, we can confidently approach a teacher or supervisor as a potential recommender, insha'Allah!

Some teachers may prefer supplementary information as email attachments. Others may prefer that everything be in an online cloud drive folder, which is recommended. It could be Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. However, in addition to remembering to provide view access, we should ensure that it is downloadable by the teacher without requiring a login. We can verify this through the incognito or private browsing mode of the web browser.

The folder should be well organized. An example of such file organization or folder structure could be like this:
File 1) Transcript/grade sheet in PDF (ensure good picture quality)

File 2) Detailed CV with photo in a DOC or PDF file
File 3) Our official full name and other student Information in an editable DOC. This file may contain different segments, as suggested below:

3A) All of our university student ID numbers and email addresses, in case we had multiple student IDs and used multiple email addresses.
3B) Since which calendar year, semester, and month, the teacher or supervisor knows the student or supervisee?
3C) In which semesters er took which courses with the teacher, received what grade, and what was the teacher's role (theory or lab or research/project/RA/TA supervision/advisor)? How did we do in those courses, including teamwork, challenges, strengths, recovery, etc.?
3D) Highlight your study, teaching, and research related interactions/skills.
3E) A short summary of all co or extracurricular or voluntary/self-learning activities that we attended, participated in, organized, volunteered, etc. If we are from the Computer Science (CS) department or applying for CS or IT-related opportunities, it might be helpful to highlight the Computer Club, the CS department, or science and technology-related events.
3F) Mention our skills in leadership and networking, personal, intellectual, and interpersonal qualities, communication skills, academic and research abilities, our special administrative abilities, ability to complete a demanding academic program, time management skills, ability to handle pressure, failure, or rejection, etc. Provide examples where we demonstrated those skills and abilities as proof, where appropriate. Have we ever struggled in life? How have we managed or recovered, or are doing so?

 File 4) Institution Details:
In case we are applying to multiple institutions, for every university and program that we are applying to, we may wish to prepare and include a table or link to a spreadsheet containing the following columns:
  • Name of the university and campus
  • University and campus URLs
  • What is our applicant or student ID?
  • Session name
  • Degree type (MS/PhD or B.Sc. in the case of credit transfer)
  • Department and program name,
  • Application Deadline
  • Recommendation Letter Deadline
  • Link to the application portal
  • Sent the recommendation letter request to the teacher? (yes/no)
  • Date we sent the recommendation letter request, or when should the teacher expect the email?
  • Sender university email domain (e.g.. gradadmission.mars.standford.edu)
  • Completed application from our side? (yes/no)
  • Submission procedure (they will email the teacher directly or we as a student will upload PDF)
  • Why do we think we are a match for that university? (It is recommended to apply to universities matching your profile, as well as higher level to be ambitious and lower level to be failsafe)
File 5) It might be helpful for the teacher if we could include an editable draft DOC containing a list of facts about your past interactions and exposure for the purpose of the detailed letter of recommendation (LOR) or job reference. Do NOT write/draft the letter itself. Boasting or inaccurate details might hamper negatively. Admissions committees are experienced enough to find inconsistencies in an applicant's profile. Moreover, admission is not everything; surviving a demanding program requires a lot of background preparation as well. So, prepare early in real life, not just in the letter. Universities or institutions would NOT like drafts prepared by applicants or any involvement during the submission process. So, let us not expect our teacher to cover all the areas mentioned in the list or even take help from our list at all. It could simply be skimmed by teachers' to cross-check if anything went missing in their version. While preparing this list, do NOT blindly copy LOR from others or internet samples to avoid adverse effects. Take ideas, learn the structure, but draft your own unique one to make it stand out to the teacher. If we are sending the draft to multiple teachers, it should be separate and unique for each teacher, personalizing it to the point how we interacted with that teacher and demonstrated performance or stood out. Ideally, it should be unique for each university as well. Highlight how we would be a match (good fit) for the selected universities and the selected programs/degrees. Additionally, may wish to highlight how we, our country, the university, the country it is located in, all would be mutually benefited in the short and the long.
Some examples of LOR:

Examples of job references or recommendations:


File 6)  In an editable DOC, include a draft of our Statement of Purpose (SOP) or Statement of Interest (SOI), Letter of Intent (LoI), job cover letter, or motivation letter.
SOP:

Cover Letter or Job Motivation Letter:
For additional information,
We might wish to create one folder containing certifications, international exam results, independent projects or even how others who are studying/studied at the same university inspired you. If we wish to add additional information, we can create additional folders. So, our Google Drive will contain six files and one or more folders mentioned above.

For filling out the online forms, we might need the following details:
  • Full name of the teacher, or the first name and last name separately.
  • Current designation (please avoid remembering and look up the latest one)
  • Official email address.
  • Office Phone number
  • Personal cell or mobile number
  • Mailing address with post code and country

It might be helpful to notify and regularly follow up with the teacher using the email thread after applying to each university or company until we receive each one. Perhaps gentle reminders once a week followed by an in-person visit to confirm if anything else is needed.

No matter how curious we are to know what the teacher wrote about us, we may wish to waive our right to view the recommendation letter during your application. It may improve the quality of your application. Some institutions may not consider “not waiving the right to view or FERPA rights” positively as discussed by:

In addition to using the same email thread instead of composing new emails every time, following some email etiquette may make a difference. For details, please read:
 http://annajiat.blogspot.com/2021/07/dos-and-donts-of-academic-emails.html
While writing the drafts or even the email, please review our writing style with different tools. Some are listed at https://sites.google.com/site/annajiat/writing-style
Please see if we can try to notify the teacher of each job or university acceptance letter that you receive via this email thread. Teachers will be glad to see that their contribution made a difference in your life.
What questions do we have? Let's not hesitate. Email our teacher right away be it for queries or letter! 
May Allah bless everyone with success and ease.
Jazak Allahu Khayran
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Cybersecurity as a study field, hobby, and as a profession

Cybersecurity has been gaining popularity among the students and researchers from various disciplines as a study field. There are many international vendor certificates are available in addition to bachelors, masters, and, of course, PhD and post doc fellowships. The job market also looks promising as there has been a shortage of qualified technical personnel. Though the profession may take a lot of commitment and dedication, however it certainly could start as a hobby.

  

Certifications:

 

Example of research papers, projects, articles, blogs:

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Friday, May 12, 2023

Research Question and Answer Tools

Research Q & A Tools:

ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.org/

Consesnsus: https://consensus.app/

Elicit: https://elicit.org/

OpenRead: https://www.openread.academy/

Perplexity.ai: https://www.perplexity.ai/

SciSpace: https://scispace.com/

Scite: https://scite.ai/


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