Spring in Action - Pivotal Certification

[Alfonso Sanz]

Hello Craig,

My question is about the certificate:

does this book cover the whole matters of the certificate? Could be used as a guide to take the exam  with no taking the Pivotal course ?

does it worth get the certification?

Thanks in advance.

[Peter Rooke]

The Spring in Action book will help, but I don't think it covers the whole content of the core exam.  The thing about the exam is that when I took it it covered some of the lesser used technologies (JMX, RMI).  There is however a certification book; Certified Spring Developer.   I recommend the actual course from Pivotal, but it's expensive.  

[Alfonso Sanz]

Thanks Peter for your answer. I did not know the book.
BR

[Peter Rooke]

No worries, still think that the Spring in Action would be worth reading (I'm going to do so).

The certification books tend to cover a lot of material quickly as the exam is (well was) based on a lot of subjects.  The exam guide is to be found here; spring developer certification exam.  I've just had a quick look at the new exam subjects and it looks like they have dropped the older technologies (like; XML configuration [yuk], JMX, RMI, SOAP) and added some more relevant newer ones like spring boot, and spring data.