Zend Certification - Do or Dont?

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1. (Zend) Certification Do or Don’t?
2. Joshua Thijssen Freelance consultant, developer and trainer @ NoxLogic Development in PHP, Python, Perl, C, Java. Lead developer van Saffire. Blog: http://adayinthelifeof.nl Email: jthijssen@noxlogic.nl Twitter: @jaytaph 2
3. 3 Twente? Close enough!
4. 4 Do or don’t?
5. Things you should not do..
6. Things you should not do..
7. Things you should not do..
8. Things you should not do..
9. Things you should not do..
10. 10 Today: All questions and answers from the Zend Certification Exam
11. 11 Non Disclosure Agreement (sorry)
12. 12 Let’s talk about me...
13. Database: (PHP) Development: Linux Adminstration: 13
14. 14 ➡ “IT” Certifications ➡ + Scuba dive certifications ➡ + Misc certifications ➡ around 60 certifications
15. 15 None of them from school (highschool, university etc)
17. 17 NOTHING
18. 18 Zend Certification, do or don’t? So: don’t?
19. 19 It’s a little bit more complex than that...
20. 20 Trust her to do your web app, without any certification?
21. 21 Trust him to watch over you at 80mtrs depth without certification?
22. 22 What does certification mean? Authoritatively or officially attested or confirmed as being genuine or true as represented, or as complying or meeting specified requirements or standards. It may or may not mean as being accompanied by a certificate.
24. 24 A B C Can B trust C? ?
25. 25 A B C Can B trust C? ? Can C trust B?
26. 26 zend boss dev Can boss trust dev? ✓
27. ➡ “web of trust”. ➡ It’s how certification / qualification work! ➡ Pretty much the foundation for EVERY security system. ➡ HTTPS works the same way. 27 Trust based
28. ➡ At this point we don’t have to “proof” our qualifications continuously, because somebody else we trust already did this. 28 Trust based
29. 29 www.example.org verisign intermediate CA verisign CA
30. ➡ Trust. No trust in CA, then certification doesn’t mean anything. ➡ It doesn’t “proof” qualification. Only that dev passed the exam. ➡ Knowledge can disappear when not used, without anyone knowing. 30 Drawbacks of the trust system
31. ➡ CA gets compromised, everything in the chain gets compromised. 31 Drawbacks of the trust system
32. 32 Drawbacks of the trust system = +
33. ➡ Devs don’t have to prove itself continuously. ➡ Boss doesn’t have to check qualification levels manually. ➡ It can give you an advantage. ➡ You will be using subjects you won’t touch in your daily work. 33 Advantages for developers
34. ➡ Marketing & Sales. ➡ Consistent minimum php knowledge level. ➡ Developers want to expand knowledge. 34 Advantages for businesses
35. ➡ It does NOT hurt when certified. ➡ It CAN hurt if not certified. ➡ Result: 35 Do or don’t?
36. 36 DO
37. ➡ Some companies increases wages for getting certifications. ➡ Freelance / self-employed: excellent way to defend your fees and prove your knowledge to customers. 37
38. 38 Stand out of the crowd
39. ➡ Devs with ANY php cert NLD: 698 ➡ Devs with ZF cert NLD: 61 ➡ Devs with ZF and PHP cert NLD: 41 ➡ Devs with ZF and PHP cert USA: 69 ➡ Devs with ZF and PHP cert BEL: 20 39 http://www.zend.com/en/store/education/certification/yellow-pages.php
40. 40 Are you ready for the exam?
41. <?php echo count(“123”); 41 A)123 B)“123” C)1 D)false E)true F)null
42. 42 The _______________ interface makes it possible to use count() for counting elements in your iterator. countable
43. <?php $foo = array('one', 'two', 'three'); foreach ($foo as &$bar) { } foreach ($foo as $bar) { } var_dump($foo); 43
44. one two two 44
45. 45 Preparing your exam
46. ➡ Schedule exam (set yourself a deadline!) ➡ Learn! ➡ Take test exams. ➡ Learn more! ➡ Take the exam. 46
47. 47 ➡ Sign up at pearson/vue (under zend) ➡ Find exam center + date + time ➡ Around 195 euro (via creditcard) ➡ Done. Schedule
48. 48 ➡ Free reschedule (up to 24 hours) ➡ Free cancellation ➡ Next day schedule
49. ➡ Prep books ➡ Tutorials ➡ php.net! 49 Learn
50. ➡ uCertify.com (but windows only) ➡ zend.com (10 test exams, web based) 50 Take test exams
51. 51 Take test exams
52. ➡ Prep books ➡ Tutorials ➡ php.net! 52 Learn more
53. ➡ One exam per day. ➡ Take your time between, but not too long. ➡ Take exam late in the morning. ➡ Not too early, definitely not too late! ➡ Rest before. Eat & drink normally. 53 Take exam
54. 54 Remember: You’re not doing brain surgery. It’s just an exam.
55. 55 Exam day
56. ➡ Optionally take photo’s, check ID. ➡ Sign NDA. ➡ Computer based. ➡ 70 (randomish) questions in 90 minutes about 10 subjects. ➡ Multiple choice (single / multi answers) ➡ Open questions 56
57. ➡ You can “flag” questions for later review. ➡ Computers tells you if you skipped questions (so skip and continue if needed!). ➡ After you confirm you’re done, you will get a PASS or FAIL (i think :)). 57
59. ➡ PHP Basics (syntax, variables) ➡ Functions (syntax references, closures) ➡ Data Formats & Types (xml, json, soap) ➡ web features (sessions, cookies, auth) ➡ OOP (interfaces, exceptions, LSB, SPL) ➡ Security (sql injection, filtering, ssl) ➡ IO (files, streams, contexts) ➡ Strings (match, regex) ➡ Databases (SQL, joins, pdo) ➡ Arrays (multi-dimension, spl, array functions) 59
61. MVC • Components • Pattern Basics • Bootstrap • Zend_Controller • Zend_Layout Infrastructure • Zend_Config • Zend_Session • Zend_Registry • Zend_Loader Internationalization • Zend_Date • Zend_Translate • Zend_Locale • Zend_Currency • Zend_View_Helper_ Translate • Internationalization Performance Authentication and Access • Zend_Acl • Zend_Auth • Zend_Auth Adapters Performance • Zend_Cache • Script inclusion • Optimization • Zend_Memory Forms • Zend_Form • Validation/Filtering • Decorators • Elements • Forms • Display Groups & Sub Forms • Configuration • Internationalization Security • Cross Site Request Forgery • Secure Authentication • Escaping for output • Cross Site Scripting • Security Best Practices Diagnosis and Maintainability • Zend_Debug • Zend_Log Filtering and Validation • Filtering Chains • Custom Filters • Standard Validation Classes • Validator Chains • Custom Validators Search • Zend_Search_Lucene • Indexing • Querying • Performance Coding Standards • Coding conventions • Zend_Loader Database • Zend_Db • Zend_Db_Statement • Zend_Db_Table • Zend_Db_Profiler • Zend_Db_Select • Table Data Gateway Pattern • Row Data Gateway Pattern Mail • Constructing • Storage • Message retrieval • Storage providers • Message sending Web Services • XML-RPC Client • XML-RPC Server • REST Client • REST Server • Zend_Service Web Services 61
62. ➡ Zend Framework 1.5 (very old) ➡ Zend Framework 2 (???) 62
63. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/163450213_18478d3aa6_d.jpg Questions? 63
64. Thank you 64 Find me on twitter: @jaytaph Find me for development and training: www.noxlogic.nl Find me on email: jthijssen@noxlogic.nl Find me for blogs: www.adayinthelifeof.nl http://joind.in/7603
65. 65 More (tricky) questions?
66. ➡ Q: Can we include constants in interfaces? 66
67. 67 <?php $a = “123”; print $A;
68. 68 <?php $a = “123”; $b = “a”; print $$b;
69. 69 <?php print $123;
70. 70 <?php $a = “123”; $b = “a”; print $$$b;
71. 71 A)print php_version(); B)print phpversion(); C)print version_php(); D)print versionphp();
72. 72 <?php $a = 123; print $a . "\n"; $b = 0123; print $b . "\n";
73. 73 <?php $a = 0.03; $b = (1 - 0.97); print $a . "\n"; print $b . "\n"; var_dump($a == $b);