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Format: Paperback
Author: Zend Technologies
ReleaseDate: August, 2004
Publisher: Sams
Rating:

Good overview, nowhere near enough problems on sample exam
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. When studying for a technical certification exam, there are two things that you must do. 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.

The book is harder than the exam
I think it is a great book, but it seemed that the book's questions were a lot harder then the exams. I just took and passed the the test today and read this book cover to cover twice.

Absolutely Terrible
I was sadly mistaken. Coming from "The PHP Company", I fully expected this book to be "up-to-snuff" on everything it covered.

I barely made it past the third page of the first chapter, and I had to shelf it. The technical errors, the grammatical errors (I know, I'm not perfect), and the cheesey analogies all made it a very uncomfortable experience.

As another reviewer mentioned, this book needs to be updated to reflect the errata and such. I'm very displeased with it, and I will be sharing my opinion with Zend.