Benefits of ZCE

Benefits of Becoming a Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE)

Career Rewards
• Differentiate yourself from competitors when looking for a new job
• Boost your value at your annual salary review
• Get your resume/CV noticed
• Gain recognition from your employer
• Have your profile displayed in Zend’s Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals
Personal Rewards
• Be recognized as a proud and dedicated supporter of PHP
• Show your commitment to the spread and growth of PHP
• Help the community prove that PHP is reliable, stable and dependable
Rewards from Zend
• Be listed in Zend’s PHP Yellow Pages
○ Used by employers and recruiters to find top PHP developers worldwide
○ Personalize your listing by uploading your photo, inputting your company
information, CV details
• Get special discounts on Zend PHP conferences worldwide
Link: http://www.lynusacademy.com/training/zend-training/benefits-of-zce

Benefits of Zend certifications

 • Zend certification provides an increased understanding of the planning, design, and
maintenance of PHP and Zend products and technologies.
• Zend certified professionals are more efficient and productive in the workplace.
• Zend certification provides higher morale and self-confidence, besides handsome salaries
and better opportunities for promotions.
• Zend certified professionals could use the Zend logo on their business cards, resumes and
literature to identify themselves among clients and colleagues.
• You will get better job opportunities by achieving this certification.
Link: http://www.ucertify.com/vendors/Zend.html

Benefits of Zend PHP 5 certification

• products are most widely used today and the Zend PHP 5 certification proves expertise
on the products and technologies.
• Professionals holding the Zend PHP 5 certification enhances employment opportunities
for Web developer, Web administrator, etc.
• Zend PHP 5 certification is helpful for professionals who have entry-level certifications
in related technologies to upgrade their credentials and get recognition from the industry.
Link : http://www.ucertify.com/certifications/Zend/zend-php-5.html

Introduction
The exam is created by an Advisory Board made up of thought leaders in the PHP
community. Because the exam is created with specific skills, knowledge and
competencies that are matched to real-world job functions, Zend Certifications
provide a measure of technical distinction that employers use to evaluate
prospective employees.

Benefits
Accelerate your Career
• Differentiate yourself from competitors when looking for a new job
• Boost your value at your annual salary review
• Get your resume/CV noticed
• Gain recognition from your employer
• Have your profile displayed in Zend's Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals
• Join the Linkedin Group Exclusively for ZCE's
Personal Rewards
• Be recognized as a proud and dedicated supporter of PHP
• Show your commitment to the spread and growth of PHP
• Help the community prove that PHP is reliable, stable and dependable
Rewards from Zend
• Be listed in Zend's PHP Yellow Pages
○ Used by employers and recruiters to find top PHP developers
worldwide
○ Personalize your listing by uploading your photo, inputting your
company information, CV details
• Get special discounts on Zend PHP conferences worldwide

Exam Topics
• PHP Basics
• Functions
• Data Format & Types
• Web Features
• Object Oriented Programming
• Security
• I/O
• Strings & Patterns
• Databases
• Arrays
Prepare for the Exam

• Zend PHP 5.3 certification study guide

• Take online test exams
• Online sites which shows test

Take the Exam

Purchase Exam voucher from zend online store

• Zend PHP 5.3 exam costs $195
• Pay through debit card
• Get pay order to pearson vue test center situated in zaman park

Schedule exam through pearson vue

Exam questions and time

• 70 random generated questions
• Questions vary in level of difficulty and so number of questions
• Questions will test more than one concept at a time
• Allowed time is 90 mins

Criteria to qualify exam

• Thre is no defined passing marks criteria

Test results
• you are immediately informed that you are qualified or not
• if do not pass then you will be given feedback on each topic to show your
areas requiring additional studies, no detailed score is given

After the Exam

• Zend PHP Yellow Pages
• Zend Certfication Logos
• Join the Linked in Group
Customer Quote
Since I got the certification, I have received interviews in some of the biggest PHP
based companies in Barcelona and I now have job as a developer in one of the big
online shops, so all the study was really worth it!

Ricard ClauPHP Developer and ZCE

The ZCE Certification demonstrates that the development team keeps in step
with the latest PHP technology. And it helps to show our customers and prospects
that we have highly qualified PHP developers where it matters most of all - their
critical project

Dmitry Karpovich CEO, Oxagile

Statistics from zend yellow pages

America
Zend Certified Engineers found for your query: 1384

United Kingdom
Zend Certified Engineers found for your query: 460

India
Zend Certified Engineers found for your query: 291

Bangladesh
Zend Certified Engineers found for your query: 31

Pakistan
Zend Certified Engineers found for your query: 7

2005 => 1

2006 => 2

2009 => 1

2010 => 2
 2011 => 1

Sample Zend Exam Questions

Q: which php statement will stop php execution (choose 3)

1. __halt_compiler() ;
2. die();
3. exit();

4. Abort

Q: What is the best way to ensure that a user-defined function is always passed an
object as its single parameter?

• function myfunction(stdClass $a)

• function myfunciton($a = stdClass)

• There is no way to ensure the parameter will be an object

• function myfunction(Object $a)

What three special methods can be used to perform special logic in the event a
particular accessed method or member variable is not found?

• __get($variable)

• __call($method, $params)

• __get($method)

• __set($variable, $value)

• __call($method)
Some advanced topics and food of thoughts
 Autoload

 Reflection

Magic (_*) Methods

 SPL

The SplFixedArray class functions more like an array in C or Java than an array in PHP.

• The number of elements to be stored is known in advance (a crude example being

when the mysql_num_rows function is called on a result resource).
• Elements only need to be accessed by sequential position (versus by a semantically
meaningful key).

For 500 elements memory consumption 1400KB

With SplFixedArray 800 KB

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