Zend Certified PHP Engineer Certification outline

List of Exam Topics

PHP Basics Syntax Operators Variables Control Structures Language Constructs and Functions Namespaces Extensions Config Performance/bytecode caching Functions Arguments Variables References Returns Variable Scope Anonymous Functions, closures Data Format & Types XML Basics SimpleXML XML Extension Webservices Basics SOAP JSON DateTime DOMDocument Web Features Sessions Forms GET and POST data Cookies HTTP Headers HTTP Authentication HTTP Status Codes Object Oriented Programming Instantiation Modifiers/Inheritance Interfaces Exceptions Autoload Reflection Type Hinting Class Constants Late Static Binding Magic (_*) Methods Instance Methods & Properties SPL Traits Security Configuration Session Security Cross-Site Scripting Cross-Site Request Forgeries SQL Injection Remote Code Injection Email Injection Filter Input Escape Output Encryption, Hashing algorithms File uploads PHP Configuration Password hashing API I/O Files Reading Writing File System Functions Streams Contexts Strings & Patterns Quoting Matching Extracting Searching Replacing Formatting PCRE NOWDOC Encodings Databases & SQL SQL Joins Prepared Statements Transactions PDO Arrays Associative Arrays Array Iteration Array Functions SPL, Objects as arrays Casting