ALL WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PASS VMWARE SPRING PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
After I had the opportunity to take and successfully pass the VMware Spring Professional certification exam a while ago, I would like, through this article, to share some tips and strategies to help you nail your certification exam. So get ready !
Pivotal Spring Professional v5.0 has a new official name
Since the acquisition of Pivotal by VMware; The official name of the certification was updated in 2020 and is called today VMware Spring Professional. The examen code is EDU-1202: Spring Certified Professional.
The official Le study guide was also updated in October 2020.
General information on certification
The purpose of certification
The Spring Professional Certification Exam is designed to test and validate understanding as well as familiarity with key aspects of Spring and Spring Boot such as:
- Configuration, Component-scanning, AOP
- Data access and Transactions
- REST, Spring Security
- Auto-configuration, Actuator, Spring Boot Testing
Exam Topics
- Container (20%)
- AOP (8%)
- JDBC (4%)
- Transactions (8%)
- MVC (8%)
- Security (6%)
- REST (6%)
- JPA Spring Data (4%)
- Testing (4%)
- Boot Into (8%)
- Boot Autoconfig (8%)
- Boot Actuator (8%)
- Boot Testing (8%)
Bref d’examen officiel: Pivotal_ExamBrief_SpringProfessional.pdf
Study Guide officiel: Spring-Professional-Certification-Study-Guide.pdf
The headache with this exam
- The exam contains several questions with multiple answers, without knowing precisely the number of correct answers, hence the difficulty of this Test.
- The time constraint.
- The answers contain terms that are very similar and may be misleading. You have to read the question several times.
- Shades of meaning between words in the suggested answers, for example:
- @Secured or @Secure
- @RolesAllowed or @AllowedRoles
- @Import or @Imports
- datasource.setDriverClassName or datasource.setDriverClass
- datasource.setConnectionURL or datasource.setUrl
- password-encoded or encoded-password
- TransactionTemplate, TransactionManager, TransactionInterceptor, PlateformTransactionManager
Tips for preparing the certification exam
- You must first put aside the preparation methods for Spring Core and Web certification for version 3 and 4, because it is very different and it is not the same thing!
- You should never prepare for a Certification exam in a rush. Give yourself the necessary time to prepare and assimilate all the concepts. Otherwise, they will be confused and you may fail your exam.
- A certification is worth absolutely nothing if you don’t understand every detail of the certification. A certification is only a mean to challenge yourself, but the aim is to master a technology very well and not just have a false paper.
- Always do your own summary, this is important for you afterwards and not just for certification. One can quickly forget with the panoply of technical words, and you will certainly need them someday during an interview. If it’s not for you, at least do it for an apprentice or a colleague.
How to Prepare for the Certification with 100% Success Guarantee
Books:
TheVMware Spring Professional is a technical certification that you have to practice very well. Luckily, we have a book for that:
Spring in Action, Fifth Edition
Mock exams:
If you are preparing for Spring certification then you will love these tests. These are 300+ unique and high-quality practice tests to prepare for Spring Professional Certification (VMware EDU-1202).
Spring Certification Exam Practice Test 2021 [300 Questions]
Make your own Notes
I am a big fan of making your own notes even though you are attending the training. It helps in many ways because it actively involves your mind and encourages you to read and explore more about the topic. This active participation improves your knowledge and understanding of exam topics.
It also helps you to organize your knowledge so that you can revise it later close to exam dates. No matter how you are preparing like training, self-study, relying on the job experience, I encourage you to make your own notes as per the syllabus.