Spring Professional Certification Exam Tutorial - Module 04

Question 01 - What is Spring Boot?

Question 02 - What are the advantages of using Spring Boot?

Question 03 - Why is it "opinionated"?

Question 04 - What things affect what Spring Boot sets up?

Question 05 - What is a Spring Boot starter POM? Why is it useful?

Question 06 - Spring Boot supports both properties and YML files. Would you recognize and understand them if you saw them?

Question 07 - Can you control logging with Spring Boot? How?

Question 08 - Where does Spring Boot look for property file by default?

Question 09 - How do you define profile specific property files?

Question 10 - How do you access the properties defined in the property files?

Question 11 - What properties do you have to define in order to configure external MySQL?

Question 12 - How do you configure default schema and initial data?

Question 13 - What is a fat jar? How is it different from the original jar?

Question 14 - What is the difference between an embedded container and a WAR?

Question 15 - What embedded containers does Spring Boot support?

Question 16 - How does Spring Boot know what to configure?

Question 17 - What does @EnableAutoConfiguration do?

Question 18 - What does @SpringBootApplication do?

Question 19 - Does Spring Boot do component scanning? Where does it look by default?

Question 20 - How are DataSource and JdbcTemplate auto-configured?

Question 21 - What is spring.factories file for?

Question 22 - How do you customize Spring auto configuration?

Question 23 - What are the examples of @Conditional annotations? How are they used?

Question 24 - What value does Spring Boot Actuator provide?

Question 25 - What are the two protocols you can use to access actuator endpoints?

Question 26 - What are the actuator endpoints that are provided out of the box?

Question 27 - What is info endpoint for? How do you supply data?

Question 28 - How do you change logging level of a package using loggers endpoint?

Question 29 - How do you access an endpoint using a tag?

Question 30 - What is metrics for?

Question 31 - How do you create a custom metric with or without tags?

Question 32 - What is Health Indicator?

Question 33 - What are the Health Indicators that are provided out of the box?

Question 34 - What is the Health Indicator status?

Question 35 - What are the Health Indicator statuses that are provided out of the box?

Question 36 - How do you change the Health Indicator status severity order?

Question 37 - Why do you want to leverage 3rd-party external monitoring system?

Question 38 - When do you want to use @SpringBootTest annotation?

Question 39 - What does @SpringBootTest auto-configure

Question 40 - What dependencies does spring-boot-starter-test brings to the classpath?

Question 41 - How do you perform integration testing with @SpringBootTest for a web application?

Question 42 - When do you want to use @WebMvcTest? What does it auto-configure?

Question 43 - What are the differences between @MockBean and @Mock?

Question 44 - When do you want use @DataJpaTest for? What does it auto-configure?