Misplaced Pages

Zend Certified Engineer: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editContent deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 17:21, 14 September 2010 editSilver seren (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers43,882 edits Add ref← Previous edit Latest revision as of 14:38, 12 April 2020 edit undoXqbot (talk | contribs)Bots, Template editors2,328,039 editsm Bot: Fixing double redirect to Zend (company)Tag: Redirect target changed 
(9 intermediate revisions by 9 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
#REDIRECT ] {{R from merge}}
<!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the issue is settled -->
{{AfDM|page=Zend Certified Engineer|year=2010|month=September|day=14|substed=yes|help=off}}
<!-- For administrator use only: {{Old AfD multi|page=Zend Certified Engineer|date=14 September 2010|result='''keep'''}} -->
<!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point -->
]

The '''Zend Certified Engineer''' ('''ZCE''') ] is an internationally-recognized ] certification established by ]. An exam must be passed in order to be awarded the certification. It is intended to prove that a person is fully qualified to develop PHP ].<ref>Marinaccio, Brent, , LinuxWorld Magazine, July 28, 2005</ref><ref>Martinez, Anne, , Certification Watch Volume 9 #9, July 26, 2006</ref><ref>Krill, Paul, , ], September 16, 2008</ref><ref>, ''Learning PHP and MySQL'' by Michele E. Davis and Jon Phillips, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006, Pg. 334</ref>

There are almost (approaching) 5,000 Zend Certified Engineers in the world with either PHP 4 or PHP 5 certifications. Zend's PHP 5 examination was introduced in August 2006, and the PHP 4 exam was retired in March 2007. Both versions are multiple choice examinations with the pass/fail score kept secret. Zend's PHP 5 exam costs ]125 as of ]<ref>, ]</ref> and is offered exclusively at ] testing sites.<ref>Lee, Justin, , ], September 16, 2008</ref><ref>Nagel, Becky, , CertCities, September 27, 2006</ref><ref>, ], July 26, 2004</ref>

To help Zend Certified Engineers gain exposure to potential employers, Zend lists all Zend Certified Engineers in its directory, Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals and allows ZCEs to join its exclusive ] group. They also allow Zend Certified Engineers to place a ZCE logo on their personal web site and ].

==Exam topics==
As PHP is mainly used as a web development language, the ZCE tests the candidate over a variety of skills necessary for developing web applications. The PHP 5 Certification exam covers<ref>, ]</ref><ref>, ], September 12, 2006</ref>:
* ] Basics
* Functions
* Arrays
* ]
* Security, including ] and ]
* ] and ], including ], ], ], and ]
* Strings and patterns, including ]
* Databases and ]
* Web Features, such as sessions, forms, GET and POST data, cookies, and ] headers
* Streams and Network Programming
* Differences between PHP 4 and 5
* Design and Theory
* Php.ini settings

Although these are the Study Guide contents, there are more topics to consider in order to be prepared for the exam, such as use of the new extension ] layer to access databases, and the Standard PHP Library (SPL), a new set of classes specially created to manipulate objects as sets of arrays or files.

==See also==
* ]
* ]
* ]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*
*

]
]

]

Latest revision as of 14:38, 12 April 2020

Redirect to:

  • From a merge: This is a redirect from a page that was merged into another page. This redirect was kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the target page. Please do not remove the tag that generates this text (unless the need to recreate content on this page has been demonstrated) or delete this page.