Officially Zend Certified
April 29, 2005
I passed my zend certification exam this morning, whooo hooooo.
Had the standard 70 questions, and I can definatley say if you don't study for this test its unlikely you'll pass. You have to get down to the low level stuff, how does php do type conversions IE if(0 == "test") echo 'yes!'; would echo yes because it converts the string down to 0, learn all the array functions and how to manipulate arrays, file system functions.. flock, fopen, fpassthru, etc all of em. Also there were quite a few OOP questions on there. I had to mark about 12 for review, I really had to work through those ones at the end when I hoped to have time. I finished with about 25 minutes to spare, reviewed my answers a couple times over and found a couple mistakes I made.
Couple Tips...
Read the Zend Cert Guide! - I read and re-read it 6 times over
Audio CDs - I also recorded myself reading all the chapters and put them on a CD so I could listen in my car to/from work
Get the Practice Exam - 200 questions that are what you're likely to see on the test.. VERY helpful
Practices Tests/Real Certs online - brainbench, expert rating, hudzilla.com all have good PHP tests to hone your skills
PHP Manual - pick a subject a day IE Arrays on monday and go through each function trying to memorize parameters, functionality and returns
I'm glad its over so I can finally start reading something else :) I felt guilt if I read anything other than a php book for a month. lol
Had the standard 70 questions, and I can definatley say if you don't study for this test its unlikely you'll pass. You have to get down to the low level stuff, how does php do type conversions IE if(0 == "test") echo 'yes!'; would echo yes because it converts the string down to 0, learn all the array functions and how to manipulate arrays, file system functions.. flock, fopen, fpassthru, etc all of em. Also there were quite a few OOP questions on there. I had to mark about 12 for review, I really had to work through those ones at the end when I hoped to have time. I finished with about 25 minutes to spare, reviewed my answers a couple times over and found a couple mistakes I made.
Couple Tips...
Read the Zend Cert Guide! - I read and re-read it 6 times over
Audio CDs - I also recorded myself reading all the chapters and put them on a CD so I could listen in my car to/from work
Get the Practice Exam - 200 questions that are what you're likely to see on the test.. VERY helpful
Practices Tests/Real Certs online - brainbench, expert rating, hudzilla.com all have good PHP tests to hone your skills
PHP Manual - pick a subject a day IE Arrays on monday and go through each function trying to memorize parameters, functionality and returns
I'm glad its over so I can finally start reading something else :) I felt guilt if I read anything other than a php book for a month. lol
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