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Today I received my Laravel Certification results and fortunately I passed. On this blog I’ll be sharing my Laravel Certification experience from start to passing the exam.
First off is purchasing the exam voucher at https://certification.laravel.com/. The price as of writing is €249.00 but they are generous enough to offer big discount under Discount Programs https://certification.laravel.com/page/discount. I was able to qualify under Economy Discount Economy Tier C for €99. Once you purchased the exam voucher you’ll be receiving an email, official receipt from Your Human Music BV receipt, another email for invoice and another one for “Get started with your Laravel Certification”. The last email is where you will redeem the exam voucher. Please note that the invitations or exam voucher will be valid for only 3 months.
Once you redeemed the exam voucher, another email will be received for Laravel certification exam details. They are using proctorexam.com to facilitate the actual exam. From the email they will give a URL so you can test or check the requirements i.e. webcam, microphone of your laptop. Once you are ready you can click another URL from the email to start the exam. Make sure to prepare your ID as you need to show it via webcam. During the exam you must not open other browser or application windows. You must be alone in a well-lit room. You must not be wearing ear buds or headphones and you must not consult books or other documents. The exam was 50 mins. with 45 questions and it is right minus wrong. Then after 3 to 5 days you’ll be receiving another email for the results (In my end just 2 days). If you pass, a Laravel certificate is attached as PDF file and you can check your profile to verify at https://exam.laravelcert.com/is/michael-gerard-galon/certified-since/2020-10-12
For the tips:
- Take note that this year they updated the version from Laravel 5.7 to 6.0
- Experience of course. But in my case I’m coming from Zend Framework and in my day-to-day job I’m using CodeIgniter. But on my side projects I’m using Laravel. If you have good concepts on your current PHP framework it will help a lot as some PHP frameworks has similarities like routes, view, controller, OOP concepts, etc.
- For reading materials just use the official documentation https://laravel.com/docs/6.x.
- For video tutorials definitely https://laracasts.com/ is a big help.
- During the exam, most of the questions are from Eloquent ORM, Routing, Blade, Security, Collection, Broadcast, Events and Notification. I did not encounter Testing, Official Packages, etc. but i guess the questions are at random so I suggest to give at least a look on the topics you are not familiar.
- Another tip is don’t focus too much in memorization, but rather go to your laptop and do some test for example Collection method reduce() 😉.
- The exam is right minus wrong. I suggest if you don’t know the answer better leave it as blank.
Good luck to everyone getting the Laravel Certification exam.