In this quick article, we will discuss the VMware Spring Professional Certification and its cost.
Spring Professional Certification cost is 250$.
Spring Professional Certification
The Spring Professional certification is designed to test and validate your understanding of and familiarity with core 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.
The training for this certification is made optional so if you have good experience in the Spring ecosystem then you directly take the certification.
About the exam
The actual exam includes the 13 topics listed below, with the weighting percentage of each topic :
Exam Pattern
Number of Questions: 50
Duration: 90 Minutes
Questions Type: Multiple choice
Passing score: 76%
To purchase the exam: https://www.vmware.com/education-services/certification/vcp-spring.html
The exam cost: $250.00
Preparation and resources
Official documentation
- Spring Framework documentation
- Spring Boot documentation
- Spring Testing documentation
- Spring Data JPA documentation
Good books
Here are some more good books and study guides for preparing Spring certifications:- Spring boot in Action
- 5 Spring Books Every Experienced Developer Read
- 5 Books to Learn Spring Boot and Cloud
- 10 Books Java Developers should read in 2020
Additional resources
- Pivotal Official Certification page
- Feedback and notes from MOSS GU
- MrR0807's notes on GitHub
- Spring AOP from pluralsight by Eberhard Wolff
- Baeldung video - Spring's Dispatcher Servlet vs HandlerMapping vs HanlderAdapter
- Spring Professional Certification Exam Tutorial - Module 01 to 08
- 5 Free Spring Certification Practice Tests
- Java & Moie's Core Spring 4.2 Certification Exam PDF
- Spring Professional Exam v5.0 Study Guide
- Spring Professional Exam v5.0 General Information (PDF)
- 250+ Spring Certification Questions with Answers