schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100 :Revision: 1 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa ==================================== Zend certification - First try... ;) ==================================== :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! ;) .. Local Variables: mode: rst fill-column: 79 End: vim: et syn=rst tw=79 Trackbacks ========== - 3 years of blogging on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:58:05 +0200 in Tobias Schlitt - a passion for php Yes, it's true, exactly 3 years ago I wrote my first blog entry. By that time I would never have imagined, that I would keep blogging for more than 3 years and that more or less constantly. My weblog now contains 458 entries. Surely, there is some bulshit Comments ========