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Zend PHP Certification Study Guide Review by Charles Ashbacher
Good overview, nowhere near enough problems on sample exam
When studying for a technical certification exam, there are two things that you must do. The first is to achieve the appropriate level of expertise and the second is to become familiar with the forms that the questions may take. Questions on technical examinations can be very tricky, a common cause of failure is to misread or misinterpret the question. Programming is such a precise activity that it is easy to write a question where the "obvious" answer is in fact wrong.
While this book does have some description of how to program in PHP, it is a review only and there is not enough to impart the appropriate level of expertise in PHP. A small number of sample questions are given at the end of each chapter and there is a sample exam with eighteen questions at the end. Solutions to all of the questions are included.
Although I found the study questions to be good, my personal opinion is that there are not enough of them. It would have been better if there were at least fifty questions in a sample exam, or two exams with at least fifty. When providing study questions, overkill is difficult to impossible to achieve, and eighteen is nowhere near that lofty goal.