Online Zend Self Test for PHP
I just did the online Zend Self Test for PHP (without consulting any documentation) and received the score 6/8.
Unfortunately, it didn't tell me which ones I got wrong, but I think one of them was a question about the deployment of PHP4 and PHP5 on the same server. I sadly do not know an awful amount about that, as I have never had to do it.
Still, 6/8 isn't too bad and I am quite pleased with it, and who knows, maybe one day I'll need to be Zend Certified. What score did you get?
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Alexander Dickson
Posted on Wednesday, 2nd December 2009 @ 12:32pm.@Ashley Simons I think last time I looked at that it was very expensive yeh? I didn't want to pay it, as I think the certification was only valid for a year. Seeing as I am not currently job hunting, I didn't want my certification to expire before I needed to actually use it.
IMO, a year is a pretty short duration to expire considering how much PHP changes over a year, which is not much at all. 3 years would probably be more realistic, however then they would only theoretically make 1/3 of the money for exams.
Ashley Simons
Posted on Wednesday, 2nd December 2009 @ 11:00am.I've paid for the Cert, Study Guide PDF, 10 Practice attempts pack.
I passed the first practice attempt without really studying. I rekon one of their questions / answers was wrong (supplied four wrong answers, and I picked the least evil).
The test pointed out the areas I need to brush up on (which, I sought of knew before hand where I'd fall short).
I'll probably try to get some study in for it the next few months and go do the real exam.
Alexander Dickson
Posted on Monday, 12th October 2009 @ 9:17am.@nickf
It's a bit of a tricky one - depending on how the server is setup, changing the extension may be all you need to do. Even if it looks ugly.
Turns out I got the first two wrong actually. I need to brush up on class magic methods and fopen(). I use file_get_contents() instead generally for the simplicity if offers!
Is everyone going to beat me at the self test? :P
nickf
Posted on Monday, 12th October 2009 @ 8:49am.woo 7. I think I got that last one about PHP4/5 wrong too. It threw me, the way it said "Just use .php4 for PHP4..."
Alexander Dickson
Posted on Monday, 12th October 2009 @ 12:43am.Good work Andy! Would you ever consider becoming Zend certified?
andy
Posted on Monday, 12th October 2009 @ 12:36am.Okay... that's weird. I got a 7. I guess I'm sorta pro when it comes to guessing 1 from 4.
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