Spring Certified Professional

How this course works

Every lesson is short and self-contained: it teaches one idea, shows the exact code Spring runs, then drops you into an interactive quiz using the real exam's wording. After each lesson you drill the matching pages of your Spring Professional Practice Questions book. The exam blueprint tracks every official objective; the glossary pins down the vocabulary.

The one number that matters You need ~45–48 of 60 correct. That's very reachable: the exam rewards precise knowledge of defaults, annotations, and mechanics — exactly what these lessons drill.

The 6 exam sections → your lessons

1 · Spring Core

Container, config, scopes, lifecycle, proxies, AOP
Lessons 1–7 · biggest section

2 · Data Management

JDBC, transactions, Spring Data JPA
Lessons 8–10

3 · Spring MVC

DispatcherServlet, controllers, REST
Lessons 11–12

4 · Testing

JUnit 5, @SpringBootTest, slices, MockMvc
Lesson 13

5 · Security

Auth/authz, filter chain, method security
Lesson 14

6 · Spring Boot

Auto-config, properties, Actuator
Lessons 15–16

The 15-day plan

3+ hrs/day. "Drill" = the matching topic in your practice book (printed page numbers).

Day	Focus	Lessons	Drill (practice book)
Day 1 · Jul 31	The container & Java config	1, 2	Container Q1–20 (p.68–83)
Day 2 · Aug 1	Component scan, injection, scopes	3, 4	Container Q21–40 (p.83–95)
Day 3 · Aug 2	Properties, profiles, SpEL	5	Container profile/SpEL Qs
Day 4 · Aug 3	Bean lifecycle & proxies	6	Container lifecycle Qs
Day 5 · Aug 4	AOP · checkpoint	7	AOP Q1–16 (p.3–13)
Day 6 · Aug 5	Spring JDBC	8	JDBC Q1–8 (p.96–100)
Day 7 · Aug 6	Transactions	9	Transaction Q1–15 (p.138–145)
Day 8 · Aug 7	Spring Data JPA	10	Spring Data JPA Q1–8 (p.101–105)
Day 9 · Aug 8	Spring MVC	11	MVC Q1–13 (p.106–114)
Day 10 · Aug 9	REST	12	REST Q1–12 (p.115–122)
Day 11 · Aug 10	Testing & slices	13	Boot Testing + Testing (p.54–67, 131–137)
Day 12 · Aug 11	Spring Security	14	Security Q1–12 (p.123–130)
Day 13 · Aug 12	Spring Boot & Actuator	15, 16	Boot Intro/AutoConfig/Actuator (p.14–53)
Day 14 · Aug 13	Full-length timed mock	review	Full Practice Test (p.146–205)
Day 15 · Aug 14	Weak-area review + rest	glossary	Re-drill everything you missed
Aug 15	🎯 EXAM DAY	—	Arrive early, calm, over-prepared

Day 5 checkpoint After AOP you'll have covered the whole of Spring Core (the biggest section). Take a mini-quiz then: if Core feels shaky, that's the moment to trigger the ~2-week postponement — plenty of runway left.

Lessons

01The IoC Container — beans, DI & the ApplicationContextReady ✓
·↳ Container Drill — 20 exam-style questionsReady ✓
·↳ Skill: write your own exam questionsReady ✓
02Java Configuration — @Configuration, @Bean & dependenciesComing
03Component scanning, stereotypes & @AutowiredComing
04Bean scopesComing
05Properties, Profiles & SpELComing
06Bean lifecycle, BeanPostProcessors & proxiesComing
07Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)Coming
08Spring JDBC & the DataAccessException hierarchyComing
09Transactions — propagation, rollback & isolationComing
10Spring Data JPAComing
11Spring MVC & the request lifecycleComing
12REST — verbs, status codes & RestTemplateComing
13Testing — @SpringBootTest, slices & MockMvcComing
14Spring SecurityComing
15Spring Boot — auto-configuration & propertiesComing
16Spring Boot ActuatorComing

I'm your teacher — ask me anything. Stuck on a lesson, want a concept re-explained, or ready for the next batch of lessons? Just ask in the chat. Say "continue" and I'll build the next lessons and push them live.

📋 Exam blueprint 📖 Glossary 💻 Worked code examples

The 15-Day Exam Course