[PHP Certification] My experience 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 exam is taken at Odyssey Communications CBT test centers nationwide, all year round

However, it is not held every day, but mostly on weekends

There are limited seats available for the exam, so it is best to schedule your exam early

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

The number of questions for each subject area in this PHP exam is predetermined

The question creators have specifically told us, "This is the amount that will come up," so there's no way we wouldn't know about it

Main teaching material: "Introduction to PHP (PHP7 edition)"

Please see below for the scope and items of the exam

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

Finally, how to study

Here are the materials I used this time

[PHP7 Engineer Certification [Beginner] Exam Questions]

1. Decide on the exam date and study period

Surprisingly, this is the most important thing!

This may seem so obvious that you may wonder why

However, a common problem with exam preparation is"you buy a book and start studying, but you can't keep studying for long."that

Peopledeadlines when they are predeterminedtend to act towardsthere are no predetermined deadlinestheir actions become sluggish when

It's hard to stick to a diet or exercise routine, because there's no set deadline

Conversely, people who are successful with "dieting" or "exercise"often set "deadlines" for themselves,.

The same goes for qualification exams. The important thing is to "set a deadline."

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

The reason was that,the difficulty of the exam and my own abilitiesconsideringI could pass it in two weeks if I pushed myself a littleI thought

This "if you push yourself a little" is important

In my case, if I give myself a month to study, the devil whispers to me, "I can just do it tomorrow."

On the other hand, if you set it to one week, it will lead to a mysterious sense of nonchalance, as in "I don't know anymore, so it's okay."

yourselfa timeframe that you feel you can realistically achieve if you pushWhy not try setting

2. Understand all the options for the problem

All beginner level questions are multiple choice

There are about 4 to 6 options (multiple answers allowed)

With multiple-choice questions, you tend to only understand the correct answer, or if you study repeatedly, you unconsciously memorize the correct answerand feel like you've mastered it. I was like that too. (laughs)

However, it's important to note that this book is merely a collection of practice questions. The actual exam will not havethe exact same questions as the practice questions, so you need to understand "why this is correct and this is incorrect" for every answer, regardless of whether it's right or wrong.

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()

such as A "find the length of the string", B "extract a part of the string", and C "replace a part of the string"—willunderstanding the incorrect options as well—one step closer to passing the exam in a short period of time.