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Exam Guide For 1D0-437 CIW Perl Fundamentals

• Credit Toward Certification
• Prerequisites
• Exam Information
• Skills Measured
• Exam Preparation Tools
• Exam Retake Policy
• Exam Retirement

EXAM INFORMATION

It is designed for candidates who know basics of the Perl language for Web application development. These candidates typically fulfill these roles: application developers, programmers, enterprise developers, and Web developers.

The prerequisites for this exam are:

• To fill out the on-line CIW Certification Agreement;
• To hold the CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience

This exam is relatively easy and costs $125 USD. It may be taken from Pearson Vue or Thomson Prometric

1D0-437 CIW Perl Fundamentals exams are subject to the following:

• Each delivery of the exam includes a random selection of 50 items.
• The examination period is 75 minutes.

• Correctly answer at least 38 of the 50 questions to achieve a total score of 75% or greater.

Each exam item offers four solutions or distracters; exam candidates select the best response for each item.

SKILLS MEASURED

Candidates taking the CIW Perl Fundamentals exam should be familiar with the Perl syntax, the basics of using regular expression, how to use Perl data types, and how to access and manipulate files. They should also be familiar with database connectivity and debugging techniques. Skills measured in the 1D0-437 exam include but are not limited to the following:

• Identify the role of the Perl interpreter.
• Implement and use basic syntax of Perl code.
• Use scalar variables, expression operators and the STDIN data type.
• Control flow to create complex Perl scripts using Boolean expressions, logical operators and I/O redirection.
• Use regular expressions to define and match patterns and strings in Perl.
• Use Perl arrays and the functions that manipulate them.
• Use Perl hashes and the functions that manipulate them.
• Create and call subroutines to reuse code in Perl scripts.
• Manipulate files and devices in Perl using I/O functions and filehandles.
• Use and manipulate environment variables and command-line arguments in Perl.
• Use Perl packages and modules to facilitate code reuse.
• Create object-oriented Perl scripts.
• Use Perl to interface with databases.
• Debug Perl programs and design Perl scripts to minimize bugs.

EXAM PREPARATION TOOLS

Official Curriculum

Instructor-Led Training

• CIW Perl Fundamentals

Practice Exam Sites

CIW does not endorse Web sites that list study guides or practice questions for CIW exams. All CIW examinations are copyrighted material. To maintain the security and value of our program, we reserve the right to decertify and/or prohibit from examinations any individuals who republish or distribute our copyrighted certification exam questions.

Third-Party Practice Exams

Additional exam preparation tools are available from MeasureUp, who developed practice tests to help candidates prepare for the CIW Perl Fundamentals exam.

Third-Party Books, Web Sites, or Newsgroups

The following resources are provided as a supplement to your studies, and will reinforce the skills and concepts learned with CIW official Perl Fundamentals course materials.

• Descartes, Alligator and Tim Bunce. Programming the Perl DBI. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly, 2000.
• Schwartz, Randal L. and Tom Christiansen. Learning Perl. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly, 1997.
• Siever, Ellen with Stephen Spainhour and Nathan Patwardhan. Perl in a Nutshell. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly, 1999.
• Wall, Larry with Tom Christiansen and Randal L. Schwartz. Programming Perl. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly, 1996.

EXAM RETAKE POLICY

In the event that a candidate fails a CIW exam on his or her first attempt, a 24-hour waiting period is required between the first and second sittings of that CIW exam. Candidates are required to wait for a period of no less than thirty (30) calendar days from the date of the previous sitting before any third or subsequent sitting of the same CIW exam.

Exams administered in any ways that do not comply with the CIW Exam Retake Policy shall be considered invalid and ineligible for a refund.

In the event that a candidate has violated this Exam Retake Policy, the candidate may be deemed ineligible to register for or schedule any CIW exam for a minimum period of twelve (12) months from the date of such determination.

In addition, any candidate determined to have violated the CIW Exam Retake Policy* may be subject to any or all of the following:

• Denial of a specific CIW certification for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of such determination;
• Revocation of a specific CIW certification, if such certification had been previously granted to the candidate;
• Revocation of all CIW certifications previously granted to the candidate;
• Ineligibility to receive any CIW certification for a minimum of twelve (12) months from the date of such determination;
• Any other appropriate actions, including legal remedies, deemed necessary or appropriate to enforce the CIW Exam Retake Policy.

*Prosoft Learning is a Member of the Information Technology Certification Security Council (ITCSC). ITCSC is an association formed for the establishment and recognition of standards, best practices and programs leading to enhanced security for IT certification programs. ITCSC's primary goal is to prevent unethical activities and practices that result in the invalidation of IT certifications by unqualified individuals. As an ITCSC Member, Prosoft Learning is obligated to report to ITCSC and its Members all violations of this Exam Retake Policy. Such violations will be reported to ITCSC and its Members for the purpose of maintaining the value and ensuring the integrity of the certification exams of ITCSC's Members and protecting the investments made by candidates in the certification programs of such Members. In addition to any action taken by Prosoft Learning, ITCSC and its other Members may take action against any candidate determined by Prosoft Learning to have violated the Prosoft Learning Exam Retake Policy, which action may include the invalidation of exam results, the denial of certification and the revocation of any certification previously issued by any or all ITCSC Members. For more information about ITCSC, visit: www.certsecurity.org.

EXAM RETIREMENT

No retirement date has been announced for exam 1D0-437.

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Topics

Introduction to Perl

• Practical Extracting and Reporting Language (Perl)

Getting Started with Perl

• Scalar Variables

• Numerical Variables

• String Variables

• Retrieving Data from STDIN

• Boolean Expressions in PERL

• The if statement

• The for, while, and do {} while Loop

• Statements

• Loop-Control Commands

• I/O Redirection

• Introduction to Regular Expressions

• Character Classes

• Pattern Matching and Substitution

• Introduction to Perl Arrays

• Accessing Array Elements

• The sort Function

• The foreach Statement

• The push, pop, shift and unshift Functions

• The split and join Functions

• Introduction to Perl Hashes

• Adding and Deleting Hash Elements

• The keys, values, each, and reverse Functions

• Introduction to Perl Subroutines

• Variable Scope

• References

• Introduction to Perl File Input and Output

• What is a Filehandle?

• The open Function

• Outputting Data to a File

• Opening Files for Reading

• Determining Information About Files

• The stat and lstat Functions

• Environment Variables

• Command Lines Arguments

• Using Packages in Perl

• BEGIN and END Blocks

• Using Modules in Perl

• The use and require Statements

• Introduction to Object-Oriented Perl

• Creating Objects in Perl

• Inheritance

• Introduction to Database Connectivity

• Database Programming with Perl

• Interacting with Databases

• Connecting to Databases

• Structured Query Language (SQL)

• Quoting Operations

• Introduction to Debugging Perl Scripts

• Using the print Command

• Using the –w Switch

• Using the strict Module

• The Perl Debugger

• Writing Bug-free Perl Code

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Implement and maintain hypertext-based Web sites using authoring and scripting languages; apply humanfactors principles to design; create Web content; and use Web management tools and digital media tools.

Students must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience, and be proficient in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) authoring. No previous programming experience is required.

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