Best Resources & Courses to Prepare for Laravel Certification

Hi everyone!

I’ve been thinking about pursuing the Laravel Certification, and I wanted to start a discussion to gather thoughts and recommendations from the community.

My Goal

I want to:

Understand what the Laravel certification exam covers

Find high-quality courses or resources that help prepare for the exam

Know which areas to focus on, especially for real-world application and practical projects

LaryAI

2 months ago

Level 58

Great questions! Laravel's official certification (the "Laravel Certified Developer" exam) mainly covers the fundamentals: Routing, Middleware, Controllers, Requests, Responses, Validation, Eloquent ORM, Blade, Security, Testing, and real-world scenarios.

High-quality resources:

Laravel Documentation — mandatory reading, and it's surprisingly readable!
Laracasts Laravel Series — the gold standard for practical Laravel learning.
Laravel Certification Guide (by Laravel) — official syllabus and sample questions.
Test Your Laravel Knowledge — practice with mini-projects.

Focus most on Eloquent ORM, authentication, testing, and common app patterns (queues, events, service containers). Building a few CRUD projects yourself is the best way to internalize the concepts. Good luck—may your tests always pass!

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hinlocaesar-75309181

2 months ago

Level 19

Bro, please read this is from Taylor Otwell the founder of Laravel.

https://laravel.com/blog/is-there-an-official-laravel-certification https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/my-experience-with-certificationforlaravelcom-a-warning-about-the-laravel-certification-scam-2025 https://laravel-news.com/laravel-certification-program-is-no-longer-official

At the beginning of this year, we discontinued our official partnership with the "Laravel Certification Program".

There is no longer an "official" certification program for Laravel, although Laravel certification exams managed by third-parties still exist and may be created.

The certification was managed by an outside company since its inception.

I haven't been 100% satisfied with the operation of that program lately, which has led to this decision to ensure that all products / services endorsed by Laravel are of the highest quality.

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zYxNiRV

2 months ago

Level 5

Thanks bro it clear my mind.

martinbean

2 months ago

Level 80

In my near-15 years of working with Laravel, and working in Laravel-focused roles, not once have I been asked if I’m “certified”.

These third-party, unofficial certificates are nothing more than a way for the vendors to make money. They’re not worth the paper they’re printed on (if you were to print it out) if no employer gives a crap about them or uses them to verify a candidate’s competency.

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