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Zend may, at its sole discretion, designate a logo for limited use by those individuals
who have passed this exam (the “Logo”).The Logo is personal and may only be used
by you and no other person or entity.You may use the Logo only on your personal
business cards, letterhead, personal website, and your resume and not in any other
form.You are prohibited from displaying or using the Logo in any way that may
imply that you are an employee or otherwise related to, or endorsed by, Zend.The
Logo only relates to that level of certification that you have achieved.You may not
modify or otherwise alter or change the Logo. In the event your certification expires
or is otherwise terminated, you will immediately cease use of the Logo.
Viewing Backward and Forward
During the exam, the examinee may page back and forward at any time. Even after the
completion of the entire exam, you may go back to review, change, and edit answers.
Once the End Exam button has been pressed, the exam is processed and no changes can
be made.
Reviewing Your Answers
If you are unsure about a certain question during the test or would like to remind your-
self to come back to a question at the end of the test, you may use the Review feature.
This is a recommended and time-saving feature. It appears as a review check box on the
upper left-hand corner of the exam delivery application. Checking this box will mark
the question for review, and at the end of the exam, a summary of all the questions
marked by you will be displayed with the option to go back and iterate through only
those questions.
Your Comments
Examinees are able to leave comments throughout the duration of the exam by either
clicking the comment button at the bottom of the screen or pressing ALT+M, which
opens a comment window. It is suggested that you only leave comments after you have
completed all the questions. No extra time will be added to the exam for the time taken
to write comments.
What Kinds of Questions Are Asked?

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An example of a multiple choice question is
Which of the following are directives in the
php.ini
file? (Choose three.)
A.
session.save_handler
B.
asp_tags
C.
output_buffering
D.
flush
Figure 13.2 shows an example of how a multiple choice question would appear in an
exam.
Figure 13.2 A multiple choice question.
Fill in the Blanks Questions
The examinee is provided with one or more sentences that have had parts extracted and
replaced with underscores.The examinee then chooses the most appropriate set of
extractions that, when placed back in to the sentence, make it correct.There is only one
correct answer for this type of question.
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What Kinds of Questions Are Asked?
An example fill in the blank question is
PHP is a general purpose ___________ language that is mostly used for
___________ and can be embedded in ___________.
A. Web,Web development, web pages

w
E.
x+
2. Consider the following piece of code:
<?php
$arr = array(3 => “First”, 2=>“Second“, 1=>“Third“);
list (, $result) = $arr;
?>
After running it, the value of
$result
would be
A.
First
B.
Second
C.
Third
D. This piece of code will not run, but fail with a parse error.
3. In standard SQL-92, which of these situations do not require or cannot be handled
through the use of an aggregate SQL function? (Choose 2)
A. Calculating the sum of all the values in a column.
B. Determining the minimum value in a result set.
C. Grouping the results of a query by one or more fields.
D. Calculating the sum of all values in a column and retrieving all the values of
another column that is not part of an aggregate function or
GROUP BY
clause.
E. Determining the mean average of a column in a group of rows.
4. Multidimensional arrays can be sorted using the ______ function.
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mail()
function?
A. subject, to address, extra headers, body
B. to address, subject, extra headers, body
C. to address, subject, body, extra headers
D. subject, to address, body, extra headers
7. Which of the following statements are correct? (Choose 3)
A.
sprintf()
does not output the generated string.
B.
printf(
“
%2s%1s
“
,
“
ab
“
,
“
c
“
)
outputs the string
abc
.
C.
vprintf()
takes at least one parameter; the first parameter is the formatting

,
) and (
.
) respectively, while
printf()
like functions always use
(
.
) as decimal point.
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Practice Exam Questions
8. The requirement is to return
true
for the case in which a string
$str
contains
another string
$substr
after the first character of
$str
? Which of the following
will return
true
when string
$str
contains string
$substr
, but only after the first

C. Control structures
D. Classes and objects
E. Constants
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