The Zend PHP5 ZCE certification is designed to measure the level of knowledge and PHP programming of a candidate. Before taking the Zend 200-500 exam, you should practice the following:
- Understand PHP syntax, operators, variables, constants, functions, and arrays.
- Understand OOPS modifiers/inheritance, interfaces, and exceptions.
- Implement static methods and properties, and autoload.
- Configure and manage session security.
- Perform cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgeries.
- Mitigate SQL injection, remote code injection, and email injection.
- Understand XML basics, simple XML, XML extension, and Xpath.
- Understand Web services basics.
- Implement SOAP and REST.
- Perform string searching, replacing, and formatting.
- Analyze SQL queries and prepared statements.
- Perform GET and POST data.
- Implement cookies and HTTP headers.
- Perform files reading and writing.
- Understand file system functions and streams.
- Understand object orientation, E_STRICT, etc.