One man’s voice

Hi, I’m Robert Gonzalez, Zend Certified Engineer

Posted on September 16th, 2008 in General, PHP, Personal Messages

I am a ZCE! And I am stoked.

I have been wanting to take the exam for a while now and I finally got the opportunity to do it today. I have had a voucher to take the exam for a while as well, but got another one when I signed up for the Zend Conference so I decided I would study and take the exam while I was at ZendCon. I really wanted to take it on Monday but I wasn’t able to get into the session so I scheduled my exam (and my coworker Jason’s exam) for 10:00 AM this morning.

Jason picked me up early and we got to the Santa Clara Convention Center at about 8:45. We decided to study up until the time we had to be in the exam room so we opened up the PHP manual and started memorizing. That is probably not the best way to prepare for an exam but it was all we could do other than pee and drink more coffee so that is what we did.

We hit the room a little before 10:00, got signed in, got set up then got busy. About 45 minutes later I was able to throw my hands in the air after an exasperated sigh when I found out I passed. I was, and still am, stoked.

It might not mean a lot right away, but to me it is something accomplished that I have wanted to accomplish for a while now. And I am glad it is done.