[PHP qualification] Experience story of passing the PHP engineer certification exam beginner level in 2 weeks

The PHP Engineer Certification Exam is an exam that tests basic knowledge of PHP programming.

The test is held year-round at Odyssey Communications CBT test centers nationwide.

However, it is not held every day, but mostly on Saturdays and Sundays.

The number of seats available to take the test is limited, so it is best to decide on your test date early.

Test venue: http://www.prometric-jp.com/

This PHP exam has a predetermined number of questions for each range of questions.

The person giving the questions goes out of their way to tell you, ``This is how much you'll get.'' So there's no way you can't keep track of this. lol

Main teaching material: "First PHP (PHP7 version)"

See below for question range and question items.

https://www.phpexam.jp/summary/novice7/

Now it's time to learn how.

Here are the teaching materials I used this time.

[PHP7 Engineer Certification [Beginner] Exam Question Collection]

1. Decide the exam date and study period

This is surprisingly the most important! lol

It seems so obvious, why? You may think so.

However, I think that ``I bought a book and started studying, but I can't keep studying for long.''

When people that the deadline has been set, they tend to act towards it, but the deadline is not fixed, they tend to slow down their actions. .

“Diet” and “exercise” don't last long. This is because the deadline is not set arbitrarily.

On the other hand, people who are successful with diet and exercise set their own deadlines I see .

The same goes for qualification exams. The important thing is to decide on a date.

So, decide on your exam date before you start studying!

The reason I thought about the difficulty of the exam and my own ability thought that if I pushed myself a little harder, I would be able to pass in two weeks

This ``if you push yourself a little'' is important. lol

In my case, if I set it to a month with plenty of time, the devil whispers to me, ``Should I just do it tomorrow?'' when it comes time to study.

On the other hand, if you set it to one week, you will feel a mysterious reluctance to think, ``I don't know anymore, so it's okay.''

Why not set for yourself in which you feel like you can pass if you push yourself a little harder

2. Understand all options for the problem

All beginner level questions are multiple-choice questions.

The number of choices ranges from 4 to 6. (Multiple answers possible)

When it comes to multiple-choice questions, you tend to only understand the correct answer, and if you study repeatedly, you unconsciously memorize the correct answer , making you feel like you can do it. I was like that too. lol

However, please note that this book is only a mock exam. The actual questions are not exactly the same as the mock questions, so you need to understand all the answers, including ``why this is correct and this is incorrect,'' regardless of whether the answer is correct or incorrect.

Let's consider an example.

【example】

Choose the correct function to remove leading and trailing spaces from a string.

A: strlen()

B: substr()

C: str_replace()

D: trim()

In this case, the answer is D, but A is ``Check the length of the string.'' B "extracts part of a string". By thoroughly understanding the incorrect answer options such as ``replace some strings'' in C, you will be one step closer to passing the exam in a short period of time.