Zend Certified Engineer

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The Zend Certified Engineer Certification (ZCE) is an internationally-recognized PHP certification established by Zend Technologies. 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 web applications.

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

There are more than 2,000 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.

Exam objectives

The ZCE tests you over a variety of skills necessary for developing web applications. Specifically, the exam covers:

• PHP Basics
• XML, including SimpleXML, Xpath, SOAP, REST
• SPL (Standard PHP Library)
• Object-oriented programming
• Streams and Network Programming
• Application Design and Theory
• Security
• Differences between PHP 4 and 5
• Databases and SQL
• Web Features, such as sessions, forms, get and post data, cookies, and HTTP headers

See also

• Zend Technologies
• PHP

External links

• Zend PHP Yellow Pages

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