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How I became a Pivotal Spring Professional
Certi ed 5.0
Raphael Rodrigues
May 4, 2019 · 3 min read
Today I have just taken the Pivotal Spring Professional Certification exam. I’ve passed
with 76%. Yes, in the exactly passing score! yeah!
This post I will share my path to achieve this certification.
First of all, if you’re like me and have experience with Java EE platform, the exam won’t
be a problem. However, if you’re a beginner in java/spring platform, I highly
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recommend you dedicated some time studying basic courses at Udemy or any kind of
education site before taken the certification.
Maybe this course will be ideal for someone who is initiating :
The Ultimate Spring Framework 5 Course (Beginner to Expert)
Learn Spring with the most modern and comprehensive course available for
Spring Framework 5 and Spring Boot 2. You will…
www.udemy.com
If you’re Brazilian like me and feels more confortable with portuguese language, you
could try some Spring courses at Alura plataform (link below):
Curso Online Spring MVC I: Criando aplicações web | Alura
Conheça a fundo o SpringMVC . Use o HTTP com seus métodos e estados .
Valide seus formulários de maneira fácil …
www.alura.com.br
Similar to Oracle certifications, Spring certifications are also multiple choice questions
where you need to answer 76% of questions correctly to pass the exam i.e. 38 questions
out of 50.
It costs $225 and you can purchased in this link .
Spring Professional 5 Exam Topics
In the latest exam version (5.0) the exam topics are:
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Pivotal recommended their training in this link. I can not share any details, because I
did not enrolled ( I thought too expensive ).
. . .
Right now a few recommendations about what material you could study in order to
prepare for this test:
0 — What is new in Spring 5
Before you start, I thought this is a good resource for you know at least what is new in
this version. It is just 1h25min videos:
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/whats-new-spring-5
1 — Books
Spring In Action, 5th Edition
This book has been updated for each version of Spring, and it is updated for spring 5.0
version.
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Pivotal Certified Professional Spring Developer Exam: A Study Guide
This book is main focus at the Exam, but it was not updated to the 5.0 version.
However, there are many resources that still useful for the newer version.
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2. Study notes
There are two study notes that I thought to be very useful. Thanks for both, saved me a
lot of time.
2.1 — Ivan Krizsan
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Core Spring 5 Certi cation in Detail
A walk-through of the study guide to Pivotal's Core Spring Certi cation
for Spring Framework 5 with detailed…
leanpub.com
2.2 — Laurynas Robotas github repo
MrR0807/SpringCerti cation5.0
My notes for preparing for Spring Professional Certi cation -
MrR0807/SpringCerti cation5.0
github.com
3 — Mock tests
I’ve purchased the itestjava.com. There are 5 dump tests with 250 questions total. A
good exercise before the test.
Certi cation Pivotal Spring Exam Certi ed
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