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| Took Perl today for the first time and got 84%. This one was a little scary because there is so little information out there on what it is like.
50 questions. 75% to pass, 75 minutes to take.
First off, if you have the official courseware, you are way ahead of the game. Here's what I saw.
Lots of instances of the while and foreach loops. Know how these work, and know the difference between ++$i and $i++. I got several questions where you are given a snippet of code and asked what the output of a loop would be. A lot of times the sort function played a role in the output.
Also know all your pattern match characters (\w\s\S\Z\d) and your weird operators like % and **. Some questions ask about them specifically, other have it as part of the code you need to read through and determin outcome.
The code snippets provided were usually pretty short, never more than 10 lines.
Saw two questions on databases. One concerned the proper syntax for a connect command with DBI, and the other how to close a connection.
Understand how values in arrays and hashes are stored and accessed. Know push, pop, shift and unshift, as well as hash functions like keys and reverse.
Two questions concerning @ARGV and @#ARGV
Several questions about packages. They had you look at a piece of code that declared the same variable name in a few packages, and the decide what the output of that variable would be at the end. (Very similar to example in the book.)
Did not see any questions on stat or lstat, ENV variables, or specific SQL syntax.
Couple questions regarding modules; how to call, the require keyword, the exporter module and the use keyword.
Had two on debugging; how to get help in debug mode and the commands that let you step through code.
I had one on the bless keyword and one on the syntax for referring to object variables, ie:
$myObjectVar->{characteristic}
That's about all I can remember. Good luck to everyone taking this test!
Laura
MCSD, MCT, MCIWD, CIWCI, i-Net+, MOUS | |
| Playboy 2001-04-27, 4:07 am |
| Keep up the good work! | |
| SasiSan 2001-04-27, 8:03 pm |
| I was hoping you would post how you did. And the information was awesome!!! Did you use any books beyond the Prosoft Courseware (which I guess I am now going to order)?
Congratulations on this exam!!! It is always nerve racking taking an exam that isn't widely discussed.
Good luck on the next one! | |
| BootData 2001-04-27, 8:21 pm |
| congratssz | |
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| SasiSan,
I used only the Prosoft courseware for the test. All the info is there.
I have other Perl books, but I didn't even crack them when I was prepping for this test. I only wanted to fill my head with the material that is covered on the exam.
Thanks for the congrats!
Laura
MCSD, MCT, MCIWD, i-Net+, MOUS | |
| cboyles 2001-04-29, 3:45 am |
| Laura is so on the ball
The Courseware is all you need. If you dont have it, check out the Exam Prep I wrote on the subject. Between the Book and the prep your golden. The prep is here at exam notes...
http://www.examnotes.net/ciw/1d0-437.shtml
Good Luck!!!!
Casey |
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