🍃☕🎓Feedback on Spring certification with tips to pass it:

I passed the certification today with a score of 413/500.

My feedback on Youtube: https://youtu.be/EDSKtZBFJOo?si=8BCTDA8IXvgYSdVM

I have practice tests:

Which version of Spring is used in the Spring Academy learning path?

check the spring-exam-guide.pdf at

https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bfa66343-31d9-428b-abeb-df69795e9964/vmw-spring-professional-develop-exam-guide.pdf?t=1688753690&id=4034920

where they give the versions they used to make their questions:

versions

Which learning materials did you use to prepare for the exam?

My material:

https://www.udemy.com/course/spring-professional-certification-6-full-tests-2v0-7222-a/?referralCode=04B6ED315B27753236AC

And I read these documentation pages carefully:

🔒 Security:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/6.0/servlet/authorization/method-security.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/api/org/springframework/security/access/annotation/Secured.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/

💗 Core:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/context/annotation/Lazy.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/core/aop/proxying.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/4.2.8.RELEASE/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/#beans-factory-lifecycle-combined-effects

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/context/annotation/Bean.html

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25835655/unable-to-autowire-a-bean-of-type-string

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/api/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/EnableAutoConfiguration.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/context/annotation/ComponentScan.html#excludeFilters()

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/features.html#features

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.1.13.RELEASE/reference/html/boot-features-logging.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/core/aop/ataspectj/pointcuts.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.0.0.M4/reference/html/boot-features-developing-auto-configuration.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/core/beans/factory-scopes.html

🌐 MVC:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#web.servlet.spring-mvc

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#web.servlet.spring-mvc.message-codes

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/bind/annotation/RequestMapping.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/web/webmvc/mvc-controller/ann-methods/arguments.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/web/webmvc/mvc-controller/ann-methods/return-types.html

🧪 Testing:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/api/org/springframework/boot/test/autoconfigure/orm/jpa/DataJpaTest.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/api/org/springframework/boot/test/autoconfigure/web/servlet/WebMvcTest.html

https://www.baeldung.com/junit-5-migration

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/testing.html#testing

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/1.5.2.RELEASE/reference/html/boot-features-testing.html#boot-features-testing-spring-boot-applications-testing-autoconfigured-jpa-test

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/1.5.2.RELEASE/reference/html/test-auto-configuration.html

💾 Data:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/jpa/query-methods.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/transaction/support/TransactionTemplate.html

https://jennyttt.medium.com/dirty-read-non-repeatable-read-and-phantom-read-bd75dd69d03a

https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/docs/current/api/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/config/EnableJpaRepositories.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/#reference

https://www.baeldung.com/spring-transactional-propagation-isolation

🚀 Spring Boot:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/using.html#using

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/actuator.html

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/build-tool-plugins.html#build-tool-plugins

(⬇️Download these links in PDF: https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ecbd17a0-f8d3-40e2-a1dd-c67ca7ef1518/relevant.pdf?t=1704637708&id=4091040 )

During the two weeks approaching the exam, I did three mock tests a day: my Udemy content, Javarevisited Udemy content, and Whizlab content.

Between these, I checked my wrong answers through the Spring Academy videos and the Spring documentation (links above).

(I did and redid some tests several times).

Happy studying🙂,

Is it possible to know in advance the number of answers to a question?

Yes

, you know the number of answer options you need to tick. For example, if you have a question with five answer options, and three of them are good; the web form will warn you if you did not tick enough options.

ie: you tick 2, and the form will say that 3 are required.

How realistic are Mock tests on Udemy?

Some questions are nearly the same, it spots 🎯 accurately what the test makers want to test. Some questions are ambiguous 🤔 even in the test; the thing is to choose the best answers.

In Udemy, you can find errors ❌, because generally, the instructors create it alone, which is more prone to error (but awesome students give helpful feedback).To find the right course, check the exam reference '72.22' 🏷, because some content on Udemy is related to old exams.

Mock tests require 80% to pass.

You need to have 300 on 500 but it is not linear.📈There is a kind of ponderation mechanism. So you have to get a score of 76% on the Udemy course. There are 60 questions, and some are not graded (to evaluate questions' difficulty, I think Oracle does so too). I recommend you 👍 to have at least 80% on mock tests and to redo them till you have weaknesses (read Spring documentation and watch video from Spring Academy).

Have you used an exam simulator during preparations and, if yes, which one do you commend?

I have used my Udemy course: https://www.udemy.com/course/spring-professional-certification-6-full-tests-2v0-7222-a/?referralCode=04B6ED315B27753236ACthe one of Java Revisited and the one of whizlab.

Were there any mock exam questions (or very similar) repeated on the real exam?

I don't think they ask exactly twice the same thing, but they can ask multiple time questions on the same subject.