Preparing for the Zend Certification

Posted at January 14, 2009 // PHP

I’ve been thinking about preparing for the Zend Certification since last year but never took it very seriously until yesterday when I decided that it’s time for me to make room for it. It seems like I’m having less and less time every single new day and If I don’t commit myself to it, It will never happen. Blogging about this experience is much better. I believe that when you share you goals & objectives with somebody, you’re more likely to accomplish them. if not I will be, may be, helping others doing it. that’s why I’m inviting everybody to share their knowledge, experiences and advices.

A common concern people have when preparing for the exam even when they have been developing in PHP for years is whether they can expect to pass or not. Simple reason being is that on a daily work place we make use only of a small set of PHP’s features. In fact, there is good reasons to be worried about missing tricky or obscure questions on topics that we may or may not understand very well.

All ages and levels of expertize are welcome and encouraged to join this blog.  PHP experts and “newbies” alike, Let’s interact to help each other in an on going learning experience.. Feel free to ask for, or give help on any topic here….

PHP Basics

  • Syntax
  • Operators
  • Variables
  • Constants
  • Control Structures
  • Language Constructs and Functions

Functions

  • Syntax
  • Arguments
  • Variables
  • References
  • Returns
  • Variable Scope

Arrays

  • Enumerated Arrays
  • Associative Arrays
  • Array Iteration
  • Multi-Dimensional Arrays
  • Array Functions
  • SPL

Object Oriented Programming

  • Instantiation
  • Modifiers/Inheritance
  • Interfaces
  • Exceptions
  • Static Methods & Properties
  • Autoload
  • Reflection
  • Type Hinting
  • Class Constants

Security

  • Configuration
  • Session Security
  • Cross-Site Scripting
  • Cross-Site Request Forgeries
  • SQL Injection
  • Remote Code Injection
  • Email Injection
  • Filter Input
  • Escape Output

XML and Web Services

  • XML Basics
  • SimpleXML
  • XML Extension
  • Xpath
  • Webservices Basics
  • SOAP
  • REST

Strings and Patterns

  • Quoting
  • Matching
  • Extracting
  • Searching
  • Replacing
  • Formatting
  • PCRE

Databases and SQL

  • SQL
  • Joins
  • Analyzing Queries
  • Prepared Statements
  • Transactions

Web Features

  • Sessions
  • Forms
  • GET and POST data
  • Cookies
  • HTTP Headers

Streams and Network Programming

PHP 4/5 Differences

Design and Theory

Good Luck to everyone ;-)

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