Zend Certified Engineer
So, after being talked into getting PHP-certified by a colleague (and being given a free test voucher), I decided to schedule a test and give it a whirl. I went down to Sacramento this afternoon and took the test. I had always assumed that, although I consider myself a very capable programmer, I wouldn’t do very well on a test because I don’t usually memorize things I can look up on php.net. Well, that assumption was incorrect. The test was a breeze. If you have been programming in PHP (for real clients) for any decent length of time, I can almost guarantee you know enough to pass the exam. The questions, for the most part, did not consist of questions that you could only answer by being the PHP manual. The vast majority of them were geared towards a general understanding of the language and I think the exam designers did a pretty good job of putting together the exam.
The only real negative thing I have to say about it is that it had a typo that could have easily caused somebody to miss one of the answers. The question was something along the lines of:
What would you use to determine the coordinates of a mouse-click when using the input type=“image” element as a submit button with a name of “myImage”?
- A: $_IMAGE['myImage’]['x’] and $_IMAGE['myImage’]['y’]
- B: $_POST['myImage’]['x’] and $_POST['myImage’]['x’]
- C: $_POST['myImage.x’] and $_POST['myImage.y’]
- D: $_POST['myImage_x’] and $_POST['myImage_y’]
As you can see, “B” appears to be the MOST correct answer, but it has “x” twice, rather than “x” and “y”. This was actually on the test. It wasn’t the only typo either. It was just the only one that could have caused somebody to miss an answer.
Update! – A friend of mine pointed out (in the comments below) that “D” was actually the correct answer. I was completely unaware that was how it worked. Every time I’ve seen the “x” and “y” has been with a GET form and I’d always see something along the lines of x=23&y=32 in the URL, so I assumed it was similar with POST. I was wrong. So I guess I really don’t have much negative to say about the exam.
All in all, it was a very easy, very positive experience. I’m not sure yet about how effective it will be during a job search, but I guess I’ll know soon enough. If you’d like a more in-depth critique of the exam, I find that although this one is from way back in ’04 and refers to the PHP4 exam, it applies just as easily to the exam I took.
> As you can see, “B” appears to be the MOST correct answer,
In fact the correct answer is D (see http://us2.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.form-image)
Oh, well thank you very much, Weirdan! I just remember seeing x=21&y=24 in the query string when submitting a form by clicking an image input. That’s good to know… and even better to know that they didn’t have that bad of a typo on the test :)
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