Pivotal Education enables you to continuously deliver business value in a rapidly evolving market by providing the modern software expertise you need to excel in a cloud-native world. In this webinar, we will discuss the breadth of training, certification and the Platform Acceleration Lab (PAL) options available for Spring and Cloud Foundry developers, architects, and operators. We'll also show you how Pivotal Education makes it easy create a custom Spring or Cloud Foundry training plan specific to your learning needs and schedule, using in-person and online content and tools. Presenters: Tyson Gern, Director, Pivotal Education Dylan Ham, Lead, Pivotal Education

1. © Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.
Pivotal Certification
Program
Tyson Gern
Dylan Ham

2. Certifications
Validate your Pivotal knowledge
● Industry recognized
● Performanced based and
traditional exams
● Available globally
Pivotal Training
Teaches engineers about a specific
Pivotal product
● Instructor led & self-paced
● Public and private classes
● Customer or Pivotal location
● 1:10 instructor to student ratio
● No minimum # of students
Platform Acceleration Lab
Teaches engineers how to build
modern apps and run PCF
● High touch, hands-on
● Public and private classes
● High instructor to student ratio
● Customer or Pivotal location
● Minimum 12 students for onsite
Immersive Product Focused Exams
IMPACT 100s / 1000s Developers IMPACT 100s / 1000s Developers IMPACT 1000s Developers
Education Offerings

3. Platform Acceleration Lab
Practitioner-led
Build and taught by Pivotal
experts
Hands on
Learn by doing
Aligned to roles
● Developer
● Application Architect
● Platform Engineer
Train developers, architects, and
platform engineers to efficiently build
and replatform high-quality software
on Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

4. Pivotal Training
Built with R&D
Designed in collaboration with
Pivotal product teams
Deep dive
Learn the ins and outs of each
product
Aligned to products
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Spring, Spring Boot, SCS, etc.
+ More
Train technical specialists to
efficiently use Pivotal software to
continuously deliver business value.

5. ➔ Demonstrate learning
PAL courses are highly collaborative. Deliveries favor
enablement and discussion over assessment.
➔ Measure expertise
Just as we learn by doing in PAL courses, we measure
candidates’ abilities through hands-on exercises.
➔ Align with Pivotal
Our certification are written by Pivotal experts to cover
the skills developers and architects need to succeed in
the field.
Why should I
get certified?

6. Pivotal Certification Program
Targeted Assessment
Multiple choice and hands-on
exercises
Third party proctored
Administered anywhere, on your
machine
Aligned to roles
● Developers
● Application Architects
● Platform Engineers
● technical specialists
Devs & architects demonstrate the ability to
build & replatform apps on PCF.
Platform Engineers demonstrate the ability to
install, configure, & manage a PCF Foundation.

7. Spring Professional
Certification
Demonstrate expertise building
cloud native applications with the
Spring Framework.
Framework
Product Focused Certifications
Technical specialists
90 minutes
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Operator Certification
Demonstrate the ability to install,
configure, and manage a Pivotal
Cloud Foundry foundation.
Platform
Platform engineers
90 minutes
Cloud Foundry Developer
Certification
Demonstrate cloud skills and
expertise using the Cloud Foundry
platform.
Platform
Technical specialists
3 hours

8. ➔ Hands on
Certificate holders demonstrate the
ability to build/replatform
applications.
➔ Open book
Realistic test environment with
access to resources.
Performance Based Certifications
Pivotal Certified
Developer
Demonstrate the ability to build
and deploy new applications to
Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
PAL | Developers
Developers
4 hours
Pivotal Certified Application
Architect
Demonstrate the ability to
replatform and modernize existing
apps on Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
PAL | Architects
Application Architects
4 hours

9. [Pivotal certifications are] aligned with high demand
skills for any new cloud-based application project.
I would recommend it for anyone who aims to work
with cloud-based application development.
Leonardo Santos – Project Lead, Wipro

10. Exam Briefs

11. Many ways to
prepare
➔ PAL courses
PAL courses teach developers and architects the skills that
they use to excel at their jobs. Our certifications measure
these skills.
➔ Study guides
Candidates use study guides for the developer and
application architect to guide their self study once the class is
over.
➔ Exploration
We encourage candidates to build and replatform their own
applications using Pivotal’s high-quality documentation.
➔ Project experience
Real-life experience is the best way to sharpen your skills for
our hands-on coding exams.

12. Q&A
Head to pivotal.io/training/certification to learn more
Pivotal Certification Program

13. Transforming how the world builds software
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