Welcome to Zend Certified PHP Engineer 200-550 Practice Quiz Course. The Zend company offers the Zend Certified PHP Engineer certification programme which covers different areas of developing applications in PHP 5.5. The Zend Certified PHP Engineer is an industry-wide standard that recognizes PHP expertise and is a measure of distinction that employers use to evaluate prospective employees. Join the thousands of PHP professionals who have received official certifications and be recognized for your PHP expertise. The topics that you have to learn for the exam are grouped in several categories like PHP Basics, Object Oriented Programming, Security or Arrays. etc. Course contains total of 200 questions which are topic-wise so that it covers each and every topic of PHP. Each section has 30-40 questions with 40 to 50 minutes of time to complete. Exam syllabusPHP Basics basic syntax, operators, variables, namespace, constructs, functions, config, etc. Functions arguments, references, returns, type declarations, anonymous functions, the scope of variables. Data types and format XML, web services, SOAP, JSON, DOMDocument, DateTime. Web features sessions, forms, get, post, cookies, HTTP header, HTTP authentication, status codes. OOP inheritance, interface, return type, reflection, autoload, static binding, SPL, traits, magic methods. Security configuration, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, session security, filter input, encryption, hashing, password hashing API, etc.I/O Files, reading, writing, file system functions, contexts, streams. Strings and patterns - Quoting, Matching, Extracting, Searching, Replacing, Formatting, PCRE, NOWDOC, Encodings. Database and SQL SQL, joins, prepared statements, transactions, PDO. Arrays iteration, functions, associative arrays, objects as arrays, casting, SPL. Handling exceptions and errors.