Aaron Wormus has a new posting over on his weblog talking about a "5 Minute Review" of the Zend Certification Study Guide.

My Zend PHP Certification Study Guide arrived about 10 minutes ago. This short review is based on the information I absorbed from the book in a quick flip through the pages.

The first impression of the guide is the size of the book. It is very thin, a mere 223 pages, not counting the index. [...] Each chapter starts with lists of "Terms you'll need to Understand" and "Techniques you'll need to master", and ends with Exam Prep Questions. Every chapter is full of code snippets to demonstrate techniques, and the syntax of functions.

You don't need this book if you just want to use PHP. You can even try your luck, and take the test without reading the book. But an exam is an exam, there's nothing like a good study guide to get you ready for the exam. You wouldn't want to flunk because you don't remember what the third argument to strpos() was would you?