Posted: August 24th, 2009 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Adwords, Google | No Comments »
Google is migrating all of our GAP data from our MCC accounts to the new
Adwords Professionals pages
You can basically access the same data you had in the MCC account, but you can also add and/or manage other GAP professionals linked to your account.
I’m guessing this is the first step into raising the awareness of the Google Advertising Professional (GAP) certification.
Also this could lead into a community (or social network) of GAP professionals looking for work or giving advice and clients seeking what GAPs have to offer…
Posted: January 16th, 2009 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Certification, General, PHP, Web | 24 Comments »
From this day on I can proudly say that I am a PHP5 Zend Certified Engineer.
I took the ZCE 200-500 exam today at a Pearson-Vue authorized testing center, Provision Romania, after registering online, just a business day before.
I have read the Zend PHP5 Certification Study Guide from PHP Architect and I also bought the Practice Exam Pack with 10 questions (I used only 3 tests to prepare). If you want to take the same road as me, I suggest you get the Zend PHP5 Certification Bundle as you’ll save some money in the process.
I have to say I am not an expert in all areas covered by the ZCE exam, but I manage very well in all of them.
The Practice Exam Pack did help me in getting in the state of mind needed for the exam. Also I came across a few things which I would have missed in the real exam, had it not been for a few tricky / theoretical questions.
The problem is that these practice tests are not enough to prepare you for the real exam. I found a few tricky questions including printf parameters and SoapClient / SoapServer usage that were not in the Practice Tests, but I also observed that the XML coverage is emphasized in the PHPArch Practice Tests.
I learned some things I didn’t know in PHP after reading the Study Guide and I recommend reading it as it is a very good book even if you are not preparing for the ZCE exam.
Overall it was not the hardest exam I took and I managed to finish the whole 70 questions (plus review them) in around 1 hour more or less.
I do not know how the ZCE Certification will help my career, but I am happy and proud to be a member of the ZCE Group and I am the 29th certified ZCE in Romania. I am also the second Romanian person to obtain the ZCE in 2009, followed only after a few hours later by Ionut Voda.
If you’re a Romanian from Bucharest, Romania (or just passing by) I strongly recommend Provision Security Training as they were very professional and the process of getting Zend Certified was as simple as possible !
If you have any questions about the ZCE exam or anything PHP related, post them in the comments section and I will try to answer them the best I can !
Good luck if you’re preparing to apply for the ZCE exam !
