Certification questions / mock exams ?

[vinay076]

The tests are based on your conceptual understanding of spring and some practical Spring.
This is a new test Spring Transaction Management Mock test Spring and it has some questions on problems I faced while working on Spring

[wimseyd]

Daryl,

I am confused about some of the answers to the sample exam questions posted on the web site. I'm very new to Spring but I am starting to study for the Core 2.5 Certification exam after taking the Core Spring Framework course.

The question on the advantages of constructor dependency injection lists "mutable" as one of the advantages. I thought one of the reason to use c'tor DI over setters was to promote immutability. Did you really mean to say mutable?

Secondly I'm confused about the 5 scopes you have listed as being defined in Spring. Everywhere else, including the Spring reference manual, lists the 5 scope types as: singleton, prototype, request, session, global-session. Thankfully the 3.0 doc does state that you can create your own using custom scope.

I'm assuming in the question you consolidated session & global-session into just session. However I confused about what would one should answer on an exam when asked to identify the 5 types of scope?

Thanks,

diane ramsey

[senthilkumar ss]

Hi daryl
I have just seen in one of a reply that gradfathered way of getting exam voucher is closed as of 1st jan 2008. Is that so?. becaz i do not see any of that info in the certifation page. I am wondering why there are not much support for those who want to get certified as in other certifications like Sun. We gotta serach a hell a lot of places to find the info. I am also wondering how many people would have certified since its inception and what is the market's reaction i mean how is it seriously rated in job market. if there is a little more help from springone,like a dedicated forum for certification related info, it would help a lot to those like me who wanted to do spring cetification.
I would also be greatful if there is an elobrate explanation on what grandfathered means. I mean how do we get the voucher that way. How can i prove that i have worked enough in spring.

[Marten Deinum]

for a web environment the 5 scopes listed are correct. global-session is only available in a portlet environment (if specified in a normal web environment it behaves like the session scope). Portlets aren't part of the study material...

In spring 3 there are even more scopes added like thread and application.

Regarding the other one I'm sure that was a mistake, constructors are used for immutablity.

[senthilkumar ss]

Hi Marten Deinum ,
can you answer my question if you please

[wimseyd]

Thanks Marten for the quick reply. I had forgotten that the portal stuff was not on the exam so now the answer on scope makes sense.

I think they need to change "mutable" to "immutable". I'm sure most people figure this out for themselves but it's not correct and can be confusing.

Thanks again,

diane ramsey

[rohan123]

Hi daryl
I have just seen in one of a reply that gradfathered way of getting exam voucher is closed as of 1st jan 2008. Is that so?.

Hi kumar, you are wrong for Grandfather way is closed.
I just got Grandfather in Dec 2009 and valid upto jan 2011.

I would also be greatful if there is an elobrate explanation on what grandfathered means. I mean how do we get the voucher that way. How can i prove that i have worked enough in spring.

As far as i got Grandfather, by supporting in forum and having enough knowledge of Spring so i request to SpringSource for Grandfather they sent me form which i fill and by evaluating they sent me GrandFather mail in 2 weeks.

[vinay076]

I have tested sample questions on Skill Guru and I am sure it’s not a standard set of Sping real exam questions. I think at this point Spring Framework Reference is best to simulate mock exam for your own.

There is a new test Spring Certification Mock Test of 50 questions added by Daniel on Skill-Guru site.
Daniel has done an excellent job to create this Spring Certification Mock very similar to real exam.

[Osvaldas Grigas]

I was able to find a list of Core Spring 2.5 exam study topics at
http://www.springsource.com/files/u1...ation_Exam.pdf

However, I'm taking the new Core Spring 3.0 exam, which I believe should consist of an updated list of topics. Does anyone know where I could find such a list that would target Spring 3.0 ?

[vinay076]

I am not aware of the topics but there are two excellent practice tests for Spring 3.0 certification
Spring 3 mock certification test
Spring 3 mock certification test -2