Laravel 13 Professional

The Laravel 13 Professional exam assesses your intermediate, working-developer knowledge of Laravel, the most popular PHP framework for building modern web applications and APIs.

Topics covered include:

• Eloquent & database depth (many-to-many and polymorphic relationships, eager loading & the N+1 problem, casts including encrypted / AsEnumCollection / AsStringable, global and local scopes, soft deletes, factories and seeders, transactions, pagination, cursor vs lazy)
• Queues, jobs & scheduling (drivers and connections, dispatching, batching with the Batchable trait, chains, retries and backoff, failed jobs, Queue::route, Schedule::job, onOneServer)
• Advanced routing & middleware (route caching, rate limiting with Limit::perMinute/perSecond, middleware priority, signed URLs, domain-route prioritization)
• Authentication & authorization (guards and providers, Sanctum vs Passport, gates and policies)
• Events, notifications & mail (event/listener wiring, broadcasting basics, notification channels, mailables and markdown mail)
• Testing (feature tests, RefreshDatabase, Queue/Bus/Mail fakes, HTTP tests, Pest vs PHPUnit awareness)
• Laravel 13 version features (install:api, APP_PREVIOUS_KEYS key rotation, JSON:API resources, AI primitives and semantic search awareness)

Passing this exam demonstrates professional competency in Laravel 13 and readiness to build and ship real Laravel applications.