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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
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Zend certification - First try... ;)
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:Description:
    Zend is sponsoring the PHP Conference Quebec 2005 and forethat they offer
    free Zend Certification for visitors and speakers. Since it's free, I
    tried passing it (mostly for fun) without any kind of preperation (neither
    example exam, nor the certification guide). Would be cool if that worked,
    although it's been quite a challange in some way.

`Zend`__ is sponsoring the `PHP Conference Quebec 2005`__ and forethat they
offer free `Zend Certification`__ for visitors and speakers. Since it's free,
I tried passing it (mostly for fun) without any kind of preperation (neither
example exam, nor the certification guide). Would be cool if that worked,
although it's been quite a challange in some way.

.. __: http://www.zend.com
.. __: http://www.phpquebec.com
.. __: http://www.zend.com/store/education/certification/zend-php-certification.php

For example I've never used the `$_REQUEST`__ array, since I always use $_GET
or $_POST (and, if I might occasionally have to use cookies, which did not
happen often until now, I'd use $_COOKIE). So, the questions I got regarding
$_REQUEST I had to guess. Of course, I had to guess all questions on cookies
in general. There's been 1 situation were I explicitly had to use cookies and
that's about 2 years ago. I usually use sessions and do not allow users to do
such wired stuff as "keep logged in over session timouts".

.. __: http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.request

Nevertheless if I passed or not (ok, not passing would be a shame in someway,
even without preperation...), it's really a good certification. There are many
questions, which you cannot answer by learning from a book, but only with real
programming experiences. Quite felicitous.

The only bummer is, that `Daniel`__ (the Zend guy here for administering the
certification) had to let us do the exam on paper, which means that I will
receive the result in about 2-4 weeks, when Daniel scanned and evaluated it.
I'm really very curious on the result.

.. __: http://www.zend.com/store/education/certification/authenticate.php?ClientCandidateID=ZEND001047&RegistrationID=209122599

Hopefully I did not betrayal too much about the exam.

@Chris: You're a wimp, come on, just try taking the exam! ;)


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