Symfony Certification

NOTE: The Symfony 6 Certification exam only includes questions about Symfony 6.0 and not about Symfony 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 versions.

• PHP

  • PHP API up to PHP 8.1 version
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Namespaces
  • Interfaces
  • Anonymous functions and closures
  • Abstract classes
  • Exception and error handling
  • Traits
  • PHP extensions
  • SPL

• HTTP

  • Client / Server interaction
  • Status codes
  • HTTP request
  • HTTP response
  • HTTP methods
  • Cookies
  • Caching
  • Content negotiation
  • Language detection
  • Symfony HttpClient component

• Symfony Architecture

  • Symfony Flex
  • License
  • Components
  • Bridges
  • Code organization
  • Request handling
  • Exception handling
  • Event dispatcher and kernel events
  • Official best practices
  • Release management
  • Backward compatibility promise
  • Deprecations best practices
  • Framework overloading
  • Release management and roadmap schedule
  • Framework interoperability and PSRs
  • Naming conventions

• Controllers

  • Naming conventions
  • The base AbstractController class
  • The request
  • The response
  • The cookies
  • The session
  • The flash messages
  • HTTP redirects
  • Internal redirects
  • Generate 404 pages
  • File upload
  • Built-in internal controllers

• Routing

  • Configuration (YAML, XML, PHP & attributes/annotations)
  • Restrict URL parameters
  • Set default values to URL parameters
  • Generate URL parameters
  • Trigger redirects
  • Special internal routing attributes
  • Domain name matching
  • Conditional request matching
  • HTTP methods matching
  • User's locale guessing
  • Router debugging

• Templating with Twig

  • Twig syntax up to 3.3 version
  • Auto escaping
  • Template inheritance
  • Global variables
  • Filters and functions
  • Template includes
  • Loops and conditions
  • URLs generation
  • Controller rendering
  • Translations and pluralization
  • String interpolation
  • Assets management
  • Debugging variables

• Forms

  • Forms creation
  • Forms handling
  • Form types
  • Forms rendering with Twig
  • Forms theming
  • CSRF protection
  • Handling file upload
  • Built-in form types
  • Data transformers
  • Form events
  • Form type extensions

• Data Validation

  • PHP object validation
  • Built-in validation constraints
  • Validation scopes
  • Validation groups
  • Group sequence
  • Custom callback validators
  • Violations builder

• Dependency Injection

  • Service container
  • Built-in services
  • Configuration parameters
  • Services registration
  • Service decoration
  • Tags
  • Semantic configuration
  • Factories
  • Compiler passes
  • Services autowiring

• Security

  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Configuration
  • Providers
  • Firewalls
  • Users
  • Password hashers
  • Roles
  • Access Control Rules
  • Authenticators
  • Voters and voting strategies

• HTTP Caching

  • Cache types (browser, proxies and reverse-proxies)
  • Expiration (Expires, Cache-Control)
  • Validation (ETag, Last-Modified)
  • Client side caching
  • Server side caching
  • Edge Side Includes

• Console

  • Built-in commands
  • Custom commands
  • Configuration
  • Options and arguments
  • Input and Output objects
  • Built-in helpers
  • Console events
  • Verbosity levels

• Automated Tests

  • Unit tests with PHPUnit
  • Functional tests with PHPUnit
  • Client object
  • Crawler object
  • Profiler object
  • Framework objects access
  • Client configuration
  • Request and response objects introspection
  • PHPUnit bridge
  • Handling legacy deprecated code

• Miscellaneous

  • Configuration (including DotEnv and ExpressionLanguage components)
  • Error handling
  • Code debugging
  • Deployment best practices
  • Cache, Process and Serializer components
  • Messenger component
  • Mime and Mailer components
  • Filesystem and Finder components
  • Lock component
  • Web Profiler, Web Debug Toolbar and Data collectors
  • Internationalization and localization (and Intl component)
  • Runtime component

NOTE: The Symfony 5 Certification exam only includes questions about Symfony 5.0 and not about Symfony 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 versions.

• PHP

  • PHP API up to PHP 7.2 version
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Namespaces
  • Interfaces
  • Anonymous functions and closures
  • Abstract classes
  • Exception and error handling
  • Traits
  • PHP extensions
  • SPL

• HTTP

  • Client / Server interaction
  • Status codes
  • HTTP request
  • HTTP response
  • HTTP methods
  • Cookies
  • Caching
  • Content negotiation
  • Language detection
  • Symfony HttpClient component

• Symfony Architecture

  • Symfony Flex
  • License
  • Components
  • Bridges
  • Code organization
  • Request handling
  • Exception handling
  • Event dispatcher and kernel events
  • Official best practices
  • Release management
  • Backward compatibility promise
  • Deprecations best practices
  • Framework overloading
  • Release management and roadmap schedule
  • Framework interoperability and PSRs
  • Naming conventions

• Controllers

  • Naming conventions
  • The base AbstractController class
  • The request
  • The response
  • The cookies
  • The session
  • The flash messages
  • HTTP redirects
  • Internal redirects
  • Generate 404 pages
  • File upload
  • Built-in internal controllers

• Routing

  • Configuration (YAML, XML, PHP & annotations)
  • Restrict URL parameters
  • Set default values to URL parameters
  • Generate URL parameters
  • Trigger redirects
  • Special internal routing attributes
  • Domain name matching
  • Conditional request matching
  • HTTP methods matching
  • User's locale guessing
  • Router debugging

• Templating with Twig

  • Auto escaping
  • Template inheritance
  • Global variables
  • Filters and functions
  • Template includes
  • Loops and conditions
  • URLs generation
  • Controller rendering
  • Translations and pluralization
  • String interpolation
  • Assets management
  • Debugging variables

• Forms

  • Forms creation
  • Forms handling
  • Form types
  • Forms rendering with Twig
  • Forms theming
  • CSRF protection
  • Handling file upload
  • Built-in form types
  • Data transformers
  • Form events
  • Form type extensions

• Data Validation

  • PHP object validation
  • Built-in validation constraints
  • Validation scopes
  • Validation groups
  • Group sequence
  • Custom callback validators
  • Violations builder

• Dependency Injection

  • Service container
  • Built-in services
  • Configuration parameters
  • Services registration
  • Service decoration
  • Tags
  • Semantic configuration
  • Factories
  • Compiler passes
  • Services autowiring

• Security

  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Configuration
  • Providers
  • Firewalls
  • Users
  • Passwords encoders
  • Roles
  • Access Control Rules
  • Guard authenticators
  • Voters and voting strategies

• HTTP Caching

  • Cache types (browser, proxies and reverse-proxies)
  • Expiration (Expires, Cache-Control)
  • Validation (ETag, Last-Modified)
  • Client side caching
  • Server side caching
  • Edge Side Includes

• Console

  • Built-in commands
  • Custom commands
  • Configuration
  • Options and arguments
  • Input and Output objects
  • Built-in helpers
  • Console events
  • Verbosity levels

• Automated Tests

  • Unit tests with PHPUnit
  • Functional tests with PHPUnit
  • Client object
  • Crawler object
  • Profile object
  • Framework objects access
  • Client configuration
  • Request and response objects introspection
  • PHPUnit bridge
  • Handling legacy deprecated code

• Miscellaneous

  • Configuration (including DotEnv and ExpressionLanguage components)
  • Error handling
  • Code debugging
  • Deployment best practices
  • Process and Serializer components
  • Messenger component
  • Mime and Mailer components
  • Filesystem and Finder components
  • Lock component
  • Web Profiler, Web Debug Toolbar and Data collectors
  • Internationalization and localization (and Intl component)

NOTE: The Symfony 4 Certification exam only includes questions about Symfony 4.0 and not about Symfony 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 versions.

• PHP and Web Security

  • PHP API up to PHP 7.2 version
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Namespaces
  • Interfaces
  • Anonymous functions and closures
  • Abstract classes
  • Exception and error handling
  • Traits
  • PHP extensions
  • SPL
  • Web security (XSS, CSRF, etc.)

• HTTP

  • Client / Server interaction
  • Status codes
  • HTTP request
  • HTTP response
  • HTTP methods
  • Cookies
  • Caching
  • Content negotiation
  • Language detection

• Symfony Architecture

  • Symfony Flex
  • License
  • Components
  • Bridges
  • Configuration
  • Code organization
  • Request handling
  • Exception handling
  • Event dispatcher and kernel events
  • Official best practices
  • Release management
  • Backward compatibility promise
  • Deprecations best practices

• Standardization

  • Release management and roadmap schedule
  • Framework interoperability and PSRs
  • Naming conventions
  • Coding standards
  • Third-party libraries integration
  • Composer packages handling
  • Development best practices
  • Framework overloading
  • Semantic versioning

• Controllers

  • Naming conventions
  • The base Controller class
  • The request
  • The response
  • The cookies
  • The session
  • The flash messages
  • HTTP redirects
  • Internal redirects
  • Generate 404 pages
  • File upload
  • Built-in internal controllers

• Routing

  • Configuration (YAML, XML, PHP & annotations)
  • Restrict URL parameters
  • Set default values to URL parameters
  • Generate URL parameters
  • Trigger redirects
  • Special internal routing attributes
  • Domain name matching
  • Conditional request matching
  • HTTP methods matching
  • User's locale guessing
  • Router debugging

• Templating with Twig

  • Auto escaping
  • Template inheritance
  • Global variables
  • Filters and functions
  • Template includes
  • Loops and conditions
  • URLs generation
  • Controller rendering
  • Translations and pluralization
  • String interpolation
  • Assets management
  • Debugging variables

• Forms

  • Forms creation
  • Forms handling
  • Form types
  • Forms rendering with Twig
  • Forms theming
  • CSRF protection
  • Handling file upload
  • Built-in form types
  • Data transformers
  • Form events
  • Form type extensions

• Data Validation

  • PHP object validation
  • Built-in validation constraints
  • Validation scopes
  • Validation groups
  • Group sequence
  • Custom callback validators
  • Violations builder

• Dependency Injection

  • Service container
  • Built-in services
  • Configuration parameters
  • Services registration
  • Tags
  • Semantic configuration
  • Factories
  • Compiler passes
  • Services autowiring

• Security

  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Configuration
  • Providers
  • Firewalls
  • Users
  • Passwords encoders
  • Roles
  • Access Control Rules
  • Guard authenticators
  • Voters and voting strategies

• HTTP Caching

  • Cache types (browser, proxies and reverse-proxies)
  • Expiration (Expires, Cache-Control)
  • Validation (ETag, Last-Modified)
  • Client side caching
  • Server side caching
  • Edge Side Includes

• Console

  • Built-in commands
  • Custom commands
  • Configuration
  • Options and arguments
  • Input and Output objects
  • Built-in helpers
  • Console events
  • Verbosity levels

• Automated Tests

  • Unit tests with PHPUnit
  • Functional tests with PHPUnit
  • Client object
  • Crawler object
  • Profile object
  • Framework objects access
  • Client configuration
  • Request and response objects introspection
  • PHPUnit bridge
  • Handling legacy deprecated code

• Miscellaneous

  • Error handling
  • Code debugging
  • Deployment best practices
  • Process and Serializer components
  • Data collectors
  • Web Profiler and Web Debug Toolbar
  • Internationalization and localization

NOTE: The Symfony 3 Certification exam only includes questions about Symfony 3.0 and not about Symfony 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 versions.

• PHP and Web Security

  • PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.6 API
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Namespaces
  • Interfaces
  • Anonymous functions and closures
  • Abstract classes
  • Exception and error handling
  • Traits
  • PHP extensions
  • SPL
  • Web security (XSS, CSRF, etc.)

• HTTP

  • Client / Server interaction
  • Status codes
  • HTTP request
  • HTTP response
  • HTTP methods
  • Cookies
  • Caching
  • Content negotiation
  • Language detection

• Symfony Architecture

  • Symfony Standard Edition
  • License
  • Components
  • Bundles
  • Bridges
  • Configuration
  • Code organization
  • Request handling
  • Exception handling
  • Event dispatcher and kernel events
  • Official best practices
  • Release management
  • Backward compatibility promise
  • Deprecations best practices

• Standardization

  • Release management and roadmap schedule
  • Framework interoperability and PSRs
  • Naming conventions
  • Coding standards
  • Third-party libraries integration
  • Composer packages handling
  • Development best practices
  • Framework overloading
  • Semantic versioning

• Bundles

  • Naming conventions
  • Code organization
  • Controllers
  • The views
  • The resources
  • Overriding default error pages
  • Bundle inheritance
  • Event dispatcher and kernel events
  • Semantic configuration and compiler passes

• Controllers

  • Naming conventions
  • The base Controller class
  • The request
  • The response
  • The cookies
  • The session
  • The flash messages
  • HTTP redirects
  • Internal redirects
  • Generate 404 pages
  • File upload
  • Built-in internal controllers

• Routing

  • Configuration (YAML, XML, PHP & annotations)
  • Restrict URL parameters
  • Set default values to URL parameters
  • Generate URL parameters
  • Trigger redirects
  • Special internal routing attributes
  • Domain name matching
  • Conditional request matching
  • HTTP methods matching
  • User's locale guessing
  • Router debugging

• Templating with Twig

  • Auto escaping
  • Template inheritance
  • Global variables
  • Filters and functions
  • Template includes
  • Loops and conditions
  • URLs generation
  • Controller rendering
  • Translations and pluralization
  • String interpolation
  • Assets management
  • Debugging variables

• Forms

  • Forms creation
  • Forms handling
  • Form types
  • Forms rendering with Twig
  • Forms theming
  • CSRF protection
  • Handling file upload
  • Built-in form types
  • Data transformers
  • Form events
  • Form type extensions

• Data Validation

  • PHP object validation
  • Built-in validation constraints
  • Validation scopes
  • Validation groups
  • Group sequence
  • Custom callback validators
  • Violations builder

• Dependency Injection

  • Service container
  • Built-in services
  • Configuration parameters
  • Services registration
  • Tags
  • Semantic configuration
  • Factories
  • Compiler passes
  • Services autowiring

• Security

  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Configuration
  • Providers
  • Firewalls
  • Users
  • Passwords encoders
  • Roles
  • Access Control Rules
  • Guard authenticators
  • Voters and voting strategies

• HTTP Caching

  • Cache types (browser, proxies and reverse-proxies)
  • Expiration (Expires, Cache-Control)
  • Validation (ETag, Last-Modified)
  • Client side caching
  • Server side caching
  • Edge Side Includes

• Console

  • Built-in commands
  • Custom commands
  • Configuration
  • Options and arguments
  • Input and Output objects
  • Built-in helpers
  • Console events
  • Verbosity levels

• Automated Tests

  • Unit tests with PHPUnit
  • Functional tests with PHPUnit
  • Client object
  • Crawler object
  • Profile object
  • Framework objects access
  • Client configuration
  • Request and response objects introspection
  • PHPUnit bridge
  • Handling legacy deprecated code

• Miscellaneous

  • Error handling
  • Code debugging
  • Deployment best practices
  • Process and Serializer components
  • Data collectors
  • Web Profiler and Web Debug Toolbar
  • Internationalization and localization