Furthermore, in Pivotal Certified Professional Core Spring 5 Developer Exam, Second Edition, each chapter contains a brief study summary and question set, and the book's free downloadable source code package includes one mock exam (50 questions - like a real exam). After using this study guide, you will be ready to take and pass the Pivotal Certified Professional exam.

When you become Pivotal Certified, you will have one of the most valuable credentials in Java. Pivotal certification helps you advance your skills and your career, and get the maximumbenefit from Spring. Passing the exam demonstrates your understanding of Spring and validates your familiarity with: container-basics, aspect oriented programming (AOP), data access and transactions, Spring Security, Spring Boot, microservices, and Spring model-view-controller (MVC). Good luck!

You will:

• Understand the core principles of Spring Framework 5
• Use dependency injection
• Work with aspects in Spring and do AOP (aspect oriented programming)
• Control transactional behavior and work with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Create and secure web applications based on Spring MVC
• Get to know the format of the exam and the type of questions in it
• Create Spring microservices applications