This repository contains my code examples for the preparation of the certification.
The certification questions are based on the official study-guide, so I recommend to focus on those questions. In my opinion, if you can easily respond to those questions, you will pass the certification.
To prepare my certification I read many books and articles, many Pluralsight courses and some Youtube videos on specific subjects.
To help you to prepare the certification, I recommend to learn from following resources, som are payed, but they deserve to be not free.
Core Spring 5 Certification in Detail by Ivan Krizsan This book should be a must for everyone.
help you to understand how the Spring Framework is using some design patterns internally.
Spring in Action: Covers Spring 4:
I don't recommend the fifth edition, the 4th edition is a good start for everyone willing to understand the Fundamentals of the Framework, like Dependency Injection, Aspect Oriented Programming. It is not mandatory to read every chapter in the book.
for a deepper understanding of Spring Boot.
Laurentiu Spilca made a playlist on Spring Fundamentals, you will find very good content on DI,AOP,Transaction,Data,Rest,Actuator and many more...
On his channel, Melardev explained the archirtecture of the Spring MVC module with deep understanding.
Creating Your First Spring Boot Application
Spring Boot: Efficient Development, Configuration, and Deployment
Building Applications Using Spring JDBC
Getting Started with Spring Data JPA
Git repository: This repository contains the responses of the question of the official study-guide.
Git repository: This second repository contains the responses to the question of the official study-guide and also explanations of the theoretical notion we deal with in the Certification.
Git repository: This third repository, even if it is about the spring 4 certification, you can find very good content and explanation about the spring ecosystem.
Sometimes even if the resources are valuable, it can be hard to understand some subjects, for my personal experience, i try to see the prerequisite of the hard subject. It depends also on your background on Spring and some design patterns used by the framework.
In parallel with that, I read a lot of answers from stackoverflow. Just google what you don't understand.