Zend PHP 5 Certification
- September 26th, 2006
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So are you getting prepared to take the new PHP 5 Certification Exam offered by Zend? I have yet to see any books released for the preparation like i did with the PHP 4 exam, however there is something new and very cool. php|architect offers a Mock Tesing Environment which is powered by Vulcan Web Testing System. It is a Java based system that is very nice and easy to use. The mock exam is comparable to the Zend Exam because it will give you a 90 minute window to complete the exam, the same as Zend. The questions are not the same as the one’s on the Zend exam however they have made the Mock Exam a bit more difficult than the Zend Exam. If you score well on the Mock Exam you are ready to take the Zend Exam. I have purchased a 5 slot exam so that i could write this review. I must say that the questions on the Mock Exam are directly related to PHP 5 and the new features such as PDO and SimpleXML. If you plan to cram for the exam do not just focus on the internals of PHP but also study the most popular extensions as well. PDO, SimpleXML, MySQLi, SPL, etc.
I would highly suggest that you take the Mock Exam before you go to take the real one ;) You can purchase the exam from php|architect in a single exam, 5-slot or 10-slot exams. If you have taken the Mock Exam let me know what your thoughts are. I firmly believe that it is well put together and will be a successful for helping people prepare for the new exam offered by Zend.
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- 10/12/06
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Ari Kindalg
- 12/18/06
- 01:06 AM
Joseph,
Have you taken the Zend exam yet? I’ve seen other postings that indicate that it might be signicantly different (as in harder) than the mock exam offered by php|architect.
Was wondering what your experience may have been, or if anybody else might want to comment on this.
UMAR
- 03/31/07
- 11:10 PM
I am preparing for PHP exam, can u help providing the structure of this exam. Is MySQL based questions may appear or any particular database may focus in this exam?
Joseph Crawford
- 04/01/07
- 10:15 AM
UMAR,
I have yet to take the exam but you should be careful what you ask people. I believe once you take the test you agree to not discuss what is on the exam or not.
I am not sure what the penalties are for doing something like that, probably a revoke of your certification status.
I do plan to take it at some point but I will not discuss what is on the exam or not.
AwesomeDude
- 07/03/07
- 03:02 PM
I took like 10 fake test from php|a.
I passed the last 4 so I though I was ready for the real one.
Went to take the real one, and…. NOTHING in the fake exam was there (well a couple questions), but it was harder than the fake ones and lots of questions that were not in the book.
Like Bernie says, study all of that from other sources than the book.
Martin TM
- 08/28/08
- 01:48 PM
Methought this Blog is an advertisement for php|architect Mock Testing Environment. 
:)
In order to pass the exam a couple of weeks preparation is more than enough for a decent software engineer having 1+ year’s of experience.
Joseph Crawford
- 08/28/08
- 01:57 PM
No this is not an advertising scheme. I have not even taken the real test yet myself. I figure with the release of PHP 6 on the horizon I will just wait, learn all the new stuff and take that exam.
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