Zend Certification. Devil is not so terrible
I would Like to share with dear community my experience of getting the coveted Zend certificate.
For anybody not a secret that to many certifications, and ZCPE (Zend Certified PHP Engineer) in particular, all are different: someone collects them and puts them on the walls for admiration, someone considers a waste of time and money.
For me, ZCPE is an indicator of a certain level of knowledge, not so much for someone, but for myself, when I can say: "So, with that understood, now let's examine something else." And if you, like me, a resident of the country where the employer your certificates for the most part indifferent, the stimulus for you will have only personal motives, and abstract "I want" also has not been canceled.
Do not forget that the test is for the most part artificial and theoretical, and to pass it without serious professional experience, and therefore the main value of certification for you personally is in good faith and in the full study of the theoretical material during preparation.
I've been meaning to get certified, but always put it of for later, until I read on "habré" note "I am a certified PHP specialist" that pushed me to action. In fact, waiting for the right moment and permanent training "little bit" can take many months and years, and then lose the desire. In some ways, I followed the advice of author notes, but went a little further in the radical interpretation of proverbial expressions about "the Rubicon".
If you, like me, it's hard not to agree with Socrates, you define the border, when you feel ready to take the exam, very difficult. You always have something to read at which time, study the manuals and practice tests in practice, but still understand that somewhere something is lost and Neocene. Also, when nothing does not prevail over you, and push yourself diligently to prepare difficult. And here I was useful to apply the harsh approach practiced in educational institutions, namely, to appoint a date for the exam before the training. On the pearsonvue website I have reserved for themselves the time and place of the exam, pay the voucher without a fee test center. To bring knowledge in the order I had for almost a month. Unfortunately, the brain this time seemed optimistically large. Almost 2 weeks passed in a strange anticipation and idleness.
But soon it was time to get serious. In the upcoming that day I suddenly gone, the desire to kill time in useless classes, there was a diligence and thirst for knowledge. From the extensive theoretical material was the most neglected area and they made the main focus. The main sources for me were:
Why is the basic data source for PHP in the end? It's simple – when you have in mind already has all the basic structure of what you need to know on how to thread, easy to string additional knowledge from the extensive manual. Additionally I can recommend a resource that I found, unfortunately, after completion of the test is certificationking.com. In the dump of questions from there met a few verbatim matched with those that caught me.
In the end, the preparation took me about 2 weeks. The total number of pages re-read material – about 500 that, in General, quite a bit, but I remember kept a outline by hand, and practiced the most interesting moments in practice, because it is naturally cool and has slowed the process by increasing the quality of knowledge.
Before the test is a major issue and a source of anxiety it has been questioned whether there is enough allotted time. As it turned out, 90 minutes at 70 test questions is more than enough, if not linger long over the task, causing difficulties. Better to skip them and return later. After answering all the questions I had 35 minutes to have another look and double-check all assignments. Due to this, managed to find a few mistakes. Program to test twice asked, whether I want to complete the test, as the time I have left, and I was persistent. Second expectations when impressionable people better on the screen not to look. Open eyes, look at the screen and accept your fate.
Congratulations! You have passed the Zend Certified PHP Engineer.
I want to wish all who are going to undergo certification, success in this is not the most complicated case. Don't worry, be attentive and make it happen.
P. S. My colleague to prepare trained on the issues with the site onlinetestcentre.com. According to him, about 70% of the questions in the end were almost identical.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru
For anybody not a secret that to many certifications, and ZCPE (Zend Certified PHP Engineer) in particular, all are different: someone collects them and puts them on the walls for admiration, someone considers a waste of time and money.
For me, ZCPE is an indicator of a certain level of knowledge, not so much for someone, but for myself, when I can say: "So, with that understood, now let's examine something else." And if you, like me, a resident of the country where the employer your certificates for the most part indifferent, the stimulus for you will have only personal motives, and abstract "I want" also has not been canceled.
Do not forget that the test is for the most part artificial and theoretical, and to pass it without serious professional experience, and therefore the main value of certification for you personally is in good faith and in the full study of the theoretical material during preparation.
I've been meaning to get certified, but always put it of for later, until I read on "habré" note "I am a certified PHP specialist" that pushed me to action. In fact, waiting for the right moment and permanent training "little bit" can take many months and years, and then lose the desire. In some ways, I followed the advice of author notes, but went a little further in the radical interpretation of proverbial expressions about "the Rubicon".
If you, like me, it's hard not to agree with Socrates, you define the border, when you feel ready to take the exam, very difficult. You always have something to read at which time, study the manuals and practice tests in practice, but still understand that somewhere something is lost and Neocene. Also, when nothing does not prevail over you, and push yourself diligently to prepare difficult. And here I was useful to apply the harsh approach practiced in educational institutions, namely, to appoint a date for the exam before the training. On the pearsonvue website I have reserved for themselves the time and place of the exam, pay the voucher without a fee test center. To bring knowledge in the order I had for almost a month. Unfortunately, the brain this time seemed optimistically large. Almost 2 weeks passed in a strange anticipation and idleness.
But soon it was time to get serious. In the upcoming that day I suddenly gone, the desire to kill time in useless classes, there was a diligence and thirst for knowledge. From the extensive theoretical material was the most neglected area and they made the main focus. The main sources for me were:
-
the
- zend-php.appspot.com/questions_list – dump of questions from the test, allowing you to quickly identify weak spots; the
- PHP Certification Study Guide, though a small but useful booklet, a brief overview of all the topics and some questions similar to test questions; the
- edward-designer.com/web/passing-php-5-3-certification-exam/ — a great blog where, in accordance with the guide from the first paragraph contained a lot more of the theory; the
- php.net – the official documentation.
Why is the basic data source for PHP in the end? It's simple – when you have in mind already has all the basic structure of what you need to know on how to thread, easy to string additional knowledge from the extensive manual. Additionally I can recommend a resource that I found, unfortunately, after completion of the test is certificationking.com. In the dump of questions from there met a few verbatim matched with those that caught me.
In the end, the preparation took me about 2 weeks. The total number of pages re-read material – about 500 that, in General, quite a bit, but I remember kept a outline by hand, and practiced the most interesting moments in practice, because it is naturally cool and has slowed the process by increasing the quality of knowledge.
Before the test is a major issue and a source of anxiety it has been questioned whether there is enough allotted time. As it turned out, 90 minutes at 70 test questions is more than enough, if not linger long over the task, causing difficulties. Better to skip them and return later. After answering all the questions I had 35 minutes to have another look and double-check all assignments. Due to this, managed to find a few mistakes. Program to test twice asked, whether I want to complete the test, as the time I have left, and I was persistent. Second expectations when impressionable people better on the screen not to look. Open eyes, look at the screen and accept your fate.
Congratulations! You have passed the Zend Certified PHP Engineer.
I want to wish all who are going to undergo certification, success in this is not the most complicated case. Don't worry, be attentive and make it happen.
P. S. My colleague to prepare trained on the issues with the site onlinetestcentre.com. According to him, about 70% of the questions in the end were almost identical.
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