ZFCE passed
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 - 3:49 pm - Life
Today I have passed Zend Framework Certification Exam. That does not make me a better programmer, but that makes makes me second Lithuanian (first one is Aurelijus Valeisa) to do so. Of course, it is not the reason I took it.
All I can say now, that it actually does not matter very much whether you have a ZFC badge or not. My main reason was to prove myself, that I have learned something new from the past half a year. So I am happy with that.
For those who are considering to take the exam here is my advices:
- ZF is currently in 1.9 version and exam is 1.5. A lot of new things have been added from then. So think for yourself, maybe it is not so interesting to go back a few steps while preparing.
- Read ZF study guide – “almost” everything is in there to pass the exam
- Have a good memory, some answers looks very similiar
- In my case I got a lot of questions about Zend_Filter and Zend_Form
- Some questions you have to type in
- Practice with framework by developing simple application, that would work for the best
Good luck for everyone
Congratulations to become the ZFCE!!! I’m going to take the exam soon and I thank you for the useful information posted on your blog
Do you think the exam was hard? Did you have any problems with questions?
Study guide is very well written. If you feel confident with it, you wont have a problem passing the exam. It was harder than PHP5 exam, but it is hard to compare. They are not about the same thing.
problems with questions, well some cases you have to learn by heart. For example, You just have to remember which class uses singleton pattern and which not.
Thank you for your reply. I agree with you that the Study Guide is really well written but sometimes it insufficiently touch some topics… Fortunately, there is the reference guide
Study guide is aimed to help developers to pass the exam
and that is enough. As I have mentioned in my post, passing the exam does not make you you a better programmer, its just self-proof achievement. ZF is currently in v1.9.2 and reference guide is building up with every new version. I think we will never stop reading reference guide 
that’s the place where You “really” study 
(of course after source itself 
)
You are absolutely right about the Reference Guide
The exam won’t make us better programmers… but certainly better ZF developers 
In addition to the self-satisfaction I hope to win new prestigious customers… But the first step is to pass the exam, so I back t study 
Good luck with your exam
Thanks, I’ve passed it some hours ago =] It wasn’t as hard as I assumed, but some questions were really tricky
Congratulations Omeck