I am now Zend Certified

Having used PHP for many years I decided that I would have a go at the Zend PHP 5 Certification. So I booked in last Tuesday for yesterday in Twickenham. I went along ot take the exam and can say that I passed first time. A few things for those looking to takw the exam, some of the questions are very badly worded. At least one had no correct answer. I knew what answer they wanted, but it was still not correct. When taking the exam make sure you leave comments on and and all questions that you feel are unclear and/or have no correct answer.

The exam itself covered PHP basics as well as bits on OOP design, XML, DOM, HTML, regular expression and SimpleXML. A lot of the examples like to use pass-by-reference which as any real-world PHP developer would tell you, is a bag of evil and should be avoided at all costs.

Anyway it means that I have now completed five certifications this decade. For those wondering they are:

1. CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)
2. MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)
3. MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator)
4. CMDEV (Certified MySQL 5.0 Developer)
5. ZCE (Zend Certified Engineer)

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